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The shop sits on Commercial Avenue in San Gabriel, California. Inside: race engines on stands, a family that all works there, and — since 2022 — Netflix cameras. Sammy Maloof is the man in the middle of it. He founded Maloof Racing Engines. He has been a Hollywood stunt driver for over 25 years. And he stars in Drive Hard: The Maloof Way, the reality series built around his family business.
He is not famous the way movie stars are famous. His face is rarely on screen — his driving is. That makes his money story different from most on this site: it is a small-business story that happens to involve film sets.
What Is Sammy Maloof’s Net Worth?
Sammy Maloof’s net worth is estimated at $10–12 million. That figure comes from a single credible tracker — The Cinemaholic — and it is the only estimate with any reporting behind it. This article attributes it plainly and notes the thin sourcing: one tracker’s model, not a consensus.
The same source puts his annual income around $800,000 — again, their estimate, not a disclosed figure. What makes the number believable is not its precision but the economics underneath it, which The Cinemaholic bothered to explain. Most jobs that come through Maloof Racing Engines fetch around $10,000; after taxes and the crew’s salaries, Sammy pockets something like $2,000. The shop also finances racers for big-money races and takes a significant cut when its driver wins. Small margins, high volume, decades of it — that is how a mechanic builds eight figures.
The Stunt Credits
The old version of this page talked about Maloof’s stunt career without naming a single film. Here are the verifiable ones, from his IMDb biography: 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Deja Vu (2006), and Wrath of Man (2021). A quarter-century as a stunt driver in major motion pictures, mostly behind the wheel. High-speed work. Precision driving. The jobs where a mistake totals a car.
Stunt pay is project-based and undisclosed for individuals. So this article will not repeat the old page’s generic “$1,000 to $10,000 per role” claim as if it described Maloof’s contracts. What can be said: twenty-five years of union stunt work on studio films is a solid, well-paid trade. And it is only one of his three income pillars.
The Family Business
The third pillar — and the one the Netflix show is actually about — is Maloof Racing Engines itself. Sammy founded the company and runs it with his family: his wife Jennifer, daughters Hannah, Meghan, and Kaitlyn, son Trevor, and nephew Joshua. The shop builds and modifies high-performance racing engines, mostly domestic V8 platforms. The family is well known in Southern California racing circles.
Drive Hard: The Maloof Way premiered on Netflix in 2022 with an eight-episode first season following the family through client builds, race prep, and stunts. Reality TV did what it does. It turned a local business into a national curiosity. That turns into sponsorships, merchandise, and a higher profile for the shop. The show’s premise is the business — there is no separate “TV career” to account for.
The old page also credited Maloof with three things no source supports. A “Mickey Thompson Scholarship Award” from his teens. A career racing for a Mexican cartel without ever losing. Philanthropic and mentoring programs with no examples given. All three are removed. A good story does not need invented decorations.
The Three Pillars, Honestly
Stunt driving, engine building, television — each real, each documented, none of them precisely quantified from the outside. Read the $10–12 million estimate as a direction, not a destination. A long career. A going business. A TV profile. Minus the taxes and costs that every small-business owner knows eat the gross. The Cinemaholic’s per-job math — $10,000 in, ~$2,000 kept — is the most honest detail in any published estimate. It shows the mechanism instead of just asserting the total.
FAQs
What is Sammy Maloof’s net worth?
An estimated $10–12 million, per The Cinemaholic — the only tracker with reported reasoning behind the figure. It is an estimate, not a disclosed fortune.
What movies has Sammy Maloof worked on?
His IMDb biography credits 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Deja Vu (2006), and Wrath of Man (2021), across 25+ years as a Hollywood stunt driver.
What is Drive Hard: The Maloof Way?
A Netflix reality series (from 2022) following Sammy Maloof and his family as they run Maloof Racing Engines, their engine shop in San Gabriel, California. His wife Jennifer, their children, and nephew Joshua all appear.
Net worth figures on this page are modeled estimates, not audited statements. Per-job economics and salary figures are one tracker’s reported estimates. Business revenue is not the same as personal net worth.
Samuel Clarke
Samuel covers finance, business, and property, centering his writing on the details that actually explain a topic. He gives readers context, plain definitions, and practical information in a format that's easy to follow from start to finish. Substance over style, every time.
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