A native of San Francisco and the son of an automobile painter, Navarro was born in 1919. He grew up in Eagle Rock, a bedroom community sandwiched between Glendale and Pasadena, California. These ...

Hot rodding tends to produce specialists. But Barney Navarro-land speed racer, engine builder, parts manufacturer, machinist, fabricator, inventor, and technical writer-doesn't happen to be one of ...