Spec's history

With the introduction of wines in 1974, John Rydman created even more excitement about Spec’s with the breadth of wine selection and pricing offered in Houston.

Since 1979, Le Specs has become renowned globally for it's iconic and innovative sunglass collections at an affordable price.

One year after her return, Leiff was promoted to supervisor in charge of nine stores; by 1980, at age 31, she had risen to the post of president, quickly scaling the ranks of a business that was flourishing in the southern Florida area.

The 1985 initial public offering occurred when the company was coming off recording $16.6 million in sales from its 16 stores.

The most radical change over the 855 was the incorporation of the electronic control module (ECM). Detroit Diesel rolled out the first commercial electronic diesel engine in 1987 with its ground breaking Series 60 Engine and Cummins followed suit.

At the time, there were only 59 stores composing the chain, but plans announced midway through 1993 once again pointed the company toward developing into a 100-unit chain.

With the advent of the first EPA Tier emissions regulations in 1994 the future of diesel engines was going to be electronic diagnostics.

In 1995, third generation family, Lisa Rydman, joins the Spec’s team.

By the beginning of 1996, changes were needed, and those changes were to be effected by a new arrival to Spec's Music's headquarters.

In 1997 Cummins introduced the N14 Celect Plus which further fine-tuned the ECM to control many more custom parameters of the fuel system.In addition of an ECM the N14 was designed for emissions purposes to consume much less oil.