Sneed Speed Shop opened for business in April 2003 with a focus on sports cars, a goal of helping clients win championships, and a keen knowledge of Mazda’s Rotary engine. In the original 1,000 square-foot workspace in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Chris Sneed, along with the help of his brother Kenneth, made a name for the shop by building winning rotary engine drag cars, fast sports cars and the ability to fix any automotive creation or problem that came through the door. They also designed, constructed, sold proprietary parts for Rx-7s which were tested on the shop’s track and street cars. The brothers expanded their shop in early 2005 to 2,000 square foot facility by taking over the unit beside them. At this time they added a chassis dyno and Kenneth joined as a full time employee as lead mechanical tech. As the business continued to expand they quickly out grew the 2,000 square-foot space and moved to the current stand alone 10,000 square-foot space in Pfafftown in the spring of 2006. The focus of the shop had began to shift from the rotary engines and drag racing into the new MINI Cooper and road racing. With a large population of MINI owners in the area looking to hop up their cars, business really took off and the shop purchased a 2003 MINI S in 2007 to race and develop their proprietary parts line. This MINI was very successful with a best 4th place championship finish in 2009 in Time Trial C with National Auto Sport Association, South East division. With a desire to move into door to door racing, Sneed Speed Shop purchased a 1992 BMW that was donated to the Salvation Army by its previous owner. The car was in rough condition, but ran and drove. Construction began on the “new” BMW in 2009 but it didn’t hit the track until mid spring of 2010. The brothers continued to develop parts for the MINI as well as the BMW and other customer driven projects. The “new” BMW was named Snowwhite for the bright white color she was painted and began door to door racing in July 2010 with Chris at the wheel and winning their first race in Aug of 2010. Since that first win Chris and Snowwhite have won 25 out of the 29 races and 3 regional championship and multiple 3 and 8 hour endurance races. In the fall of 2011 Sneed Speed Shop added a body shop division to their mechanical, dyno tuning and parts manufacturing businesses. The body shop is lead by Austin Tedder a life long family friend of the brothers. Integration of the body and mechanical divisions were seamless as Austin had been doing most of the Sneed body work off site in the years prior. Sneed Speed Shop continues to grow and expand their shop, manufacturing and race programs with Alex Phelps and Johan Schwartz coming on board to help Chris with driving duties as well as pushing to continue to develop the best and most cost effective race parts on the market. In 2013 the parts manufacturing and web business were spun off into their own business unit under Speed Parts Inc. The web business has expanded into MINI Cooper engines and heads, becoming the world leader in remanufactured MINI cylinder heads and custom engines. The manufacturing department continues to produce new race and track tested components for MINI Coopers as well as producing all of the current catalog of Sneed4Speed parts.