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There is a contemporary movement of traditional hot rod builders, car clubs and artists who have returned to the roots of hot rodding as a lifestyle. This includes a new breed of traditional hot rod builders, artists, and styles, as well as classic style car clubs.
- What Are Hot Rods and What Is Drag Racing?
- How Did Drag Racing Begin?
- Drag Racing in The UK
- Hot Rodding in The UK
- To Summarise British Drag Racing and Hot Rodding History…
- Drag Racing Glossary
What springs to mind when you hear the term ‘hot rod’? Do you think of a Model A Ford with a custom flame paint job, a ‘55 Chevy with a tri-power, or a factory-ready hot rod, perhaps a 429ci Cobra Jet Mustang. The hot rod ideal is different for everyone. Put simply, hot rods are customised (usually classic) cars with modified running gearand hopped...
While the 50s and 60s is the most well known era for hot rods and drag racing, it stems back much further. As long as we have had the internal combustion engine, we have wanted to tinker and tune and go faster. While the UK has had ‘hot rods’ as long as America has, we didn’t call them hot rods back in the day. In the 1920s, people started building...
Drag racing in the UK owes its conception mostly to Sydney H Allard, founder of the Allard Motor Company and rally/hillclimb driver. Allard was instrumental in forming the British Drag Racing Association after a series of match races featuring a pair of American competitors. Another player at the forefront of British drag racing was Allan ‘Bootsie’...
While hot rodding in the UK has been around since the twenties (ish), it didn’t take off as we know it until the sixties and seventies with the formation of the BHRA. This was almost certainly helped along by the founding of the National Street Rod Association in 1972. To this day, the NSRA remains the UK’s largest hot rod association, and organise...
While drag racing and hot rodding are seen as very American hobbies (which they are), the UK has a vibrant history of car building and racing, producing some of the best custom carsaround. As a lifestyle that has lasted now for a century by being passed down generations, I hope that it is something that will last another century. Who knows, maybe t...
Here’s some of the handy terms you might need to know! Alky: alcohol (methanol) is one of the power boosting fuels used in the spor Altered: short for competition-altered (drag racing class) Bracket Racing: a complicated form of racing in which a wide variety of cars can compete and aim to run their dialled in time Burnout: the ritual by which the ...
When George Poteet died July 16, the hot rodding world not only lost an incredibly active enthusiast, a prolific car collector, and a champion of land-speed racing. We also lost a tremendous advocate for our hobby and industry – a monumental force who influenced the course of hot rodding for the pas
- Damon Lee
- Editor, Goodguys Gazette
Sep 15, 2023 · As hot rod history proceeded, the introduction of Ford’s Model A engine in 1927 delivered almost twice the horsepower of the old Model T, leading to further innovations. Following the allure of the speedsters, the hot rodding movement morphed and took on a new identity as the 1930s approached.
Oct 26, 2017 · In the 1950s, hot rods started to become part of pop culture, and HOT ROD editor Wally Parks looked for attention from Hollywood as a way of legitimizing the hobby.
Jun 29, 2018 · Bill Burke: Belly Tank Pioneer. Bill Burke typifies the all-American ingenuity that powered all the hot-rod pioneers. He’d raced at the dry lakes before the war, in a hopped-up Ford roadster.
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Aug 26, 2023 · The 5.7-litre Chevy V8 and Ford’s 5.8-litre small-block V8 were popular choices for 70s hot-rodders, and into the 1980s, the street rodding scene emerged which focused on creating road-legal hot rods that could be driven on the school run or to pop to the shops.
