Fast Eddie
Established in 2020 but born in 1949, Fast Eddie is not just a brand but a man who ignored limitations, bullies and BS and chose to go and live ‘fast’. Born with debilitating Polio that crippled his left leg, required 13 surgeries and bound him to an iron brace, Ed still wanted to go ’fast’ and was immediately drawn to anything with an engine that would let him do so and his story began. Afterall, and according to Eddie, ‘yah, my left leg didn’t work so well but the gas pedal is on the right’. While the nickname may have started in childhood as a mean-spirited oxymoronic nickname from a different time – he didn’t care – and it only made him want to go faster. Despite his circumstances he chose combustion over compassion and has earned his nickname, his legacy and his place in the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame…
