About Us

Just a few years after graduating from West Rome High School, Larry began working for Rome Auto Parts Company as a delivery driver. He was soon working in the APCo machine shop, where he really wanted to be. For almost 20 years, he worked the APCo machine shop by day, handling day-to-day responsibilities while building dirt track and drag racing engines in his home shop at night. With his hard work and many late nights, Larry Smith Racing Engines became such a success that he made the decision to turn his race engine hobby into a full-time business. In 1998, Larry Smith Automotive Machine Shop was founded. Larry, with his son David, and their crew have been serving the mechanics and gearheads of Rome and the surrounding area since 1998.