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Hot rods are typically American cars that might be old, classic, or modern and that have been rebuilt or modified with large engines optimized for speed and acceleration. [2] One definition is: "a car that's been stripped down, souped up and made to go much faster."
- Bill Burke: Belly Tank Pioneer
- Veda Orr: One Fast Lady
- Chet Herbert: A Profile in Courage
- Dean Batchelor: Renaissance Car Man
- Don Garlits: Faster Than Them All
- Shirley ‘Cha Cha’ Muldowney: The First Lady of Drag Racing
- Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth: Dali-esque Car Designer
- 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...
Aug 26, 2023 · The history of hot rods explores the people, the cars, and the innovations that defined an era. This is a journey through time. From the original hot rod mods to today’s technologically advanced retro marvels and the most famous hot rods of them all, we’ll unveil the passion, creativity, and ingenuity that drove – and continues to drive ...
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.
Aug 25, 2023 · The term “hot rod” originated in the 1930s when car enthusiasts began modifying vehicles (a lot of Ford Model As and Deuces) to make them faster and more powerful.
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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.
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