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- This is how hot rodding got started, and Henry Ford was its father. Ford was a self-taught mechanic. He learned by fixing farm machinery, repairing watches, and working on early engines. In 1893 he designed and built his own internal combustion engine. In 1896 he built his first car, a light, simple "quadricycle."
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Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups.
Aug 26, 2023 · While most enthusiasts and historians agree that the hot rod culture began in the 1920s, pinpointing the very first hot rod is complicated by several factors, none more so than the fact that the term hot rod wasn’t used during the early years of the craze.
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- Boyd Coddington: Smooth Operator
Bill Burketypifies 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. Serving in the South Pacific in a high-speed PT boat squadron, he fantasized about going even faster when hostilities ceased—but he knew a square-rigged Ford roadster had its aerodynamic limi...
Karl Orr, an early L.A. hot rodder, had a fast lakester and a reputation for being ornery. Nobody messed with Karl, so when his wife Veda pulled on a crash helmet and proved she had the right stuff behind the wheel, the Southern California Timing Association tossed aside its “no lady racers” rule. The first female member of SCTA, Veda set several r...
Look at the cover of Hot Rod magazine in December 1952, and you’ll see Chet Herbert, welding up a roll bar on a Bonneville streamliner chassis. Look more closely: He’s in a wheelchair. Afflicted with polio at age 20, Herbert survived, paralyzed from the waist down. But that didn’t stop him from building an unbeatable Harley-Davidson, naming it “the...
There’s a reason that, at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the nation’s premier collector-car competition, the permanent historic hot rod class-winning trophy is named after Dean Batchelor. A car designer, driver, mechanic, legendary automotive journalist and hot-rod historian, Batchelor did it all. An active hot rodder before World War II, Ba...
The first to top 200 mph and 250 mph in the quarter mile, Floridian Don Garlits, a.k.a. “Big Daddy” or just “Big,” was always the man to beat. His signature rod? A series of Hemi-powered dragsters he called “Swamp Rats.” Garlits raced purpose-built slingshot dragsters, racers stripped of virtually everything but a frame, an engine set way back in t...
Shirley Muldowney’s husband Jack, an excellent mechanic, taught her to drag race early on, but she had the essential talent: the inherently quick reaction times of a champion. So she competed and won major titles in a sport dominated by men for decades. Her career began in 1958 and she turned pro in 1965. It was an era when women were considered de...
If you grew up as a car enthusiast in the 1950s and ’60s, you couldn’t miss the irrepressible Ed Roth. His crazy custom-designed and -built cars graced the covers of all the top rod and custom magazines; he starred at major car shows in California and nationwide; and chances are, you owned something—a T-shirt, a keychain, a model car, a pen, even a...
Boyd Coddingtonstarted as a talented machinist at Disneyland in the early 1970s. He later became a hot-rod designer and fabricator renowned for his smooth-lined, elegantly sculptural bespoke designs, which earned him the coveted “America’s Most Beautiful Roadster” award an unprecedented seven times. Coddington’s first cars were heavily influenced b...
Jan 22, 2020 · Hot-rodding as a philosophy of building vehicles has existed since before World War I. The earliest efforts of the pioneers who created the automobile strongly resemble hot-rodding, but because they weren’t working from used, mass-produced parts, they…
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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.
Jan 30, 2024 · Hot rods trace their origins to Southern California in the 1930s. There, young gearheads tinkered with old Ford Model T and Model A coupes and roadsters, modifying them extensively for improved performance.
Oct 26, 2017 · Hot rodding and racing were expanding exponentially at the time, with many ofshoots and configurations being invented by early hot rodders, who now found themselves with sons and daughters ...
