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Book Description
Hot rods have made legends, taking the spotlight in all aspects of the beach culture, in movies, and in music. They represent youth, rebellion, and a drive to do things a little differently. The hot rod movement has always been a grassroots, groundswell movement, an underground art form that defies a straightforward chronicle succinctly tied up with a bow. The All-American Hot Rod is a history by those who lived it, the numerous voices and images of people who know and love the hot rod like nothing else. It's truly an all-American tale with an exhaust note heard round the world. If you're still in awe of that first hot rod, still driving and tuning hot rods, or still dreaming of hot rods, then this book is for you.
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Just Customz Review
This book will appeal to those that have a keen interest in the history of hot rodding. The book has its own unique style in its presentation and it is packed with pictures, 50's adverts, comic book snippets and much more. The nature of the writing style makes it a book that is very easy to just 'dip' into when you need a quick hot rod fix.
The All-American Hot Rod book is broken down into 6 chapters which are Beginnings, Legends, Velocity, Gow Jobs, Delinquency and Cruising. Each of these chapters are written by several different authors each one with considerable knowledge and experience in that specific topic.
In the Legends section Pat Ganahi, past editor of Hot Rod,Rod & Customs, Street Rodder and the Rodde'rs Journal has created a list of 20 of the influencial hot rods that have been built. These Hot Rods include Ed Iskenderian's 23 Model T Roadster, Doana Spencer's 23 Ford Roadster, Dick Flint's Roadster and many more. There is also a collection of 50's movie posters which feature Hot Rods such as High School Caesar, Rebel Without A Cause etc.
If you love Hot Rod history or lived through the 50's and wanted to remeniss then this book is a definate must for your bookshelf.
 Hot rods have been wild machines from the start but when Norm Grabowski came up with this exhuberent melange of pipes, carbs, flames and a bleeding-skull shift knob, nothing like it had been seen before.  Geoff Mitford-taylor based his Duece roadster on the 1930s R-1 Gee Bee air racers.
 Two hot rodders pose proudly with their drag car before the start of a race  Derrick Carson found this ultra-rare 1936 Studebaker Dictator Coupe in an old barn in Price, Utah.
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