Granatelli Corporation
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Granatelli, Andy, 1923-2013
label: Collection Donor
content: Granatelli, Vincent, 1944-2022
label: Collection Creator
content: Grancor Automotive Specialists
label: Collection Creator
content: Hurricane Hot Rod Association
label: Collection Creator
content: Studebaker Corporation
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content: Andy Granatelli Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1403, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Andy Granatelli formed Grancor Automotive Specialists in 1945 in Chicago, Illinois. The name Grancor was formed from combining the "Gran" from Granatelli with "cor" from corporation. Grantaelli sold Grancor Automotive Specialists in 1957 and moved to California where they incorporated Grancor, Inc. 

The series contains documentation about the company through correspondence, financial data, advertising, and photographs. Also included is Andy Granatelli's involvement in auto racing in the Chicago metro region. Reprints of "How to Hop Up Your Car" from  Mechanix Illustrated, 1949 are found here.  

The correspondence files consist of typescript and handwritten letters and notes, car service policies, calendars, receipts and bills of sale (for automobiles, parts, and equipment), insurance information advertisements, trade literature, race flyers for the Chicago International Amphitheatre, financial data, specifically driver earnings for Hurricane Racing and information for the AAA Midget Auto Racing Program, 1954. 

The Grancor, Inc. materials consist of minutes and an agreement with George Holt Bates to purchase 1/3 interest in a partnership with Andy and Joseph Granatelli, 1957. The minutes detail an action to unanimously adopt the name "Grancor."   

The Novi Equipment Company file contains correspondence with Jean Marcenac, chief mechanic, and Lewis Welch, race car sponsor, drawings, a fact sheet, and receipts.