Our History

Cyberspace Automotive Performance dates back to 1993, which was virtually the dawn of the world-wide web. At a time when people were still browsing the web with a program called NCSA Mosaic, Chris Myer realized the potential for selling product via the Internet. As surprising as it seems now, his efforts were strongly resisted by many who viewed the Internet as something that would be wrong to allow to become commercial.

Cyberspace Automotive Performance started as the first online auto parts business and one of the very first e-commerce businesses. At a time when shopping carts were unheard-of and no efficient means were available to put the massive databases of automotive part information on the website, CAP began by just building web pages that discussed the different parts available from a given manufacturer, then asked browsers to email their information to receive a quote.

As individuals would ask about parts for a given make and model, the staff at CAP would consolidate this information into a simple text file so that it would not have to be researched again for the next customer with the same automobile. Eventually, these lists became complete enough to be published to the website as “shopping lists”.

In 1995, Frank Bohanan of The Specialty Equipment Manufacturer’s Association (SEMA)found Cyberauto.Com on the Internet, and was intrigued enough to call and invite CAP to join SEMA. SEMA is the organization that serves the interests of the automotive specialty equipment industry. As president, Chris Myer attended the SEMA conference in Las Vegas that year, taking a laptop computer with a copy of the CAP website. He visited several manufacturers to show them the website he had developed for each of them. Their response ranged from bewilderment (none of them had ever even heard of the “world-wide web”), to amazement, to anger (the president of one not-so-forward-thinking company threatened to sue CAP for putting their information on the Internet.)

Expanding Growth: Cyberspace Automotive Performance continued to expand. In 2000, Chris was approached by then-owner of Alamo Motorsports Troy Talamantez about buying the retail portion of that company, including it’s website, to allow Troy to focus on his wholesale buiness. This purchase was effected in January of 2001, and Alamo Motorsports became the second member of the CyberAuto Family of Automotive Performance Websites.  

CAP began to explore the benefits of other types of e-commerce infrastructures. CAP investigated Yahoo stores and engaged Rob Snell of Y-Store.Com to develop the company's first niche-marketing website. In April of 2002, Racing-Seats-USA.Com was born. This attempt was so successful that a second effort was launched and Rob Snell completed Fuel-Pumps.Net in October of 2002. Also launched late in 2002 was the Hyundai Performance Store, a collaborative effort between CAP and the Hyundai Performance content site. The outcome of these new additions to CAP resulted in the corporation’s first annual revenue in excess of $1M.

Since then other websites have been added to the family.  CyberAuto was the US Master WD for an exciting new EFI product line from Canada called FJO Racing Products.  This incredibly successful brand soon caught the attention of Holley Performance Products, who acquired FJO and turned them into Holley Performance Products, Canada, the foundation of their new Holley EFI product line.  Relieved of their WD responsibilities, CyberAuto then launched HolleyInjection.com, and, when Holley took exception to that name, changed it to EFISystemPro.Com--a website that has proven incredibly successful for the company.

In addition to it's own websites, CyberAuto performs both order fulfillment and customer support for other automotive performance websites.  

To Be Continued...