User:Hutchdeluxe/Stuart Hilborn

Stuart Hilborn was born on October 19, 1917 in Calgary, Canada. He became interested in amateur racing on dry lake beds before World War II. After the war, he began experimenting with ideas for mechanical fuel injection, and tested them on his own race cars. Only a few years later, his injectors were adopted by professional racers with notable success, including the first to break the 150 mile-per-hour mark.

Stuart eventually started a company to sell his injection systems to the public, which became popular with the hot-rodders of the 1950's and 60's. Today, that company continues to provide performance products including mechanical and electronic fuel injection systems.