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Aug 26, 2023 · During the Great Depression – from 1929 until the US entered World War II in 1941 – youngsters with limited funds but plenty of time began to modify their cars in an attempt to make them faster. This was the true start of hot rod history.
- 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 ...
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 20, 2023 · In 1950, with two V8s, the Kenz-Leslie 'liner was the first hot rod, by an hour, to break 200 mph. With three flatties, it hit 270-plus by the mid-'50s.
Aug 10, 2023 · Wally Parks says he first heard the term in the mid-'40s in the South Pacific when a recruit from San Luis Obispo, California, arrived and lamented the hot rod he'd left behind.
Jan 30, 2024 · In this article, we'll explore the origins of hot rods, how they evolved over the decades, the culture surrounding them, and why they remain so popular today. Origins of Hot Rods: Souped Up Model T's in 1930s California Hot rods trace their origins to Southern California in the 1930s.
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Jan 22, 2020 · A contingent of younger hot-rodders vehemently rejected stripping old cars of everything that made them old cars. A revival of 1950s hot-rodding began, encompassing all the bad-old tech modern rodders thought they had left behind—Stromberg carburetors, flathead V-8s, bias-ply tires, and even primer as paint.
