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Contents
Contents | 21 |
Introduction The AllAmerican Hot Rod | 23 |
Chapter 1 Beginnings | 25 |
Hot Rodding in the Days before Nostalgia by Allan Girdler | 27 |
The Way It Was by Albert Drake | 35 |
My Old Hot Rod by Jay Carnine | 43 |
Chapter 2 Legends | 53 |
Icons by David Fetherston | 55 |
Dragging by Roy Newton | 113 |
Chapter 4 Gow Jobs | 127 |
Surf Rods by Pat Ganahl | 129 |
Thunder and Lightning by Brad Bowling | 141 |
Chapter 5 Delinquency | 151 |
Bud Crayne Boy Hot Rodder by Henry Gregor Felsen | 153 |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Hot Rodder by Robert Williams | 165 |
True Confessions by Henry Highrise | 169 |
The Patron Saints of Hot Rodding by Steve Hendrickson | 65 |
20 That Counted by Pat Ganahl | 73 |
Chapter 3 Velocity | 95 |
From the Dry Lakes to the Salt by Don Pennington | 97 |
My Memories of Bonneville Are All a Blur by Gale Banks | 107 |
Chapter 6 Cruising | 175 |
The Saga of Screaming Mimi by Tom Benford | 177 |
The Roadster Chronicles by Budd Davisson | 185 |
Other editions - View all
The All-American Hot Rod: The Cars. The Legends. The Passion. Michael Dregni No preview available - 2019 |
The All-American Hot Rod: The Cars. The Legends. The Passion. Voyageur Press No preview available - 2010 |
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