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Great write up on Gellner Engineering by Bob Sandrick
Sam Gellner is 72 but he can’t slow down.
How can he? He’s been in the speed business his entire life.
Sam owns Gellner Engineering Inc., a designer and builder of custom-made supercharged and normally aspirated engines on Brookpark Road in Parma.
Gellner’s engines go into drag, road and oval track racing cars and offshore power boats that compete — and win — all over the country.
The 40-year-old company is still celebrating two victories in mid-November. Two power boats with Gellner engines finished first in the Super Boat International World Championships in Key West, Fla.
The competition is a series of 100-mile-long offshore races involving more than 80 power boats from around the world.
Both Gellner boats, competing in different classes, beat nine others in their respective races — and without supercharged engines like other boats.
“We were the underdogs,” said Dean Gellner, 38, Sam’s son and Gellner Engineering’s head engine builder. “It was a pretty big accomplishment because ...... Read more Click here !
Two World Champions with Gellner Power:
Sam Gellner is 72 but he can’t slow down.
How can he? He’s been in the speed business his entire life.
Sam owns Gellner Engineering Inc., a designer and builder of custom-made supercharged and normally aspirated engines on Brookpark Road in Parma.
Gellner’s engines go into drag, road and oval track racing cars and offshore power boats that compete — and win — all over the country.
The 40-year-old company is still celebrating two victories in mid-November. Two power boats with Gellner engines finished first in the Super Boat International World Championships in Key West, Fla.
The competition is a series of 100-mile-long offshore races involving more than 80 power boats from around the world.
Both Gellner boats, competing in different classes, beat nine others in their respective races — and without supercharged engines like other boats.
“We were the underdogs,” said Dean Gellner, 38, Sam’s son and Gellner Engineering’s head engine builder. “It was a pretty big accomplishment because ...... Read more Click here !
Two World Champions with Gellner Power:
.....who knows. 
