Origins of drag racing could be traced back to lakes racers, and Leslie shares his involvement in the early drag racing days.
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Duffy Livingstone will always be remembered as the father of the Go Kart. This story, however, is about Duffy the hot rodder,....
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A year ago, Tales from the Strip: The Hot Rod Comics and Drag Racing Cartoons of Pete Millar opened at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. It was exciting...
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In the very early 1950s a proverbial tree fell, but today almost nobody remembers hearing it...
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Southern California's dry lake beds have attracted racers since the turn of the 20th century, but things really exploded in the Thirties...
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In 1948 Bill Waddill helped form a local hot rod club partially named for Genesee County where it was based. The balance of the name may have been influenced by an existing organization...
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We all enjoy stories from what seem like the glory days of hot rodding and we recently received a book filled with some great stories told by the guys that...
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In Rod & Custom's 50-year span, only nine motor-oil-for-blood fanatics have sat behind the editor's desk. As the second, Lynn Wineland had few traditions...
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Pete Eastwood lived a mere hubcap toss away from the goings on at Blair's Speed Shop and eventually punched a time card there along with the "who's who" of hot rodding.
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Simon and Garfunkel's song "Mrs. Robinson," posed the rhetorical question, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"
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Porsche racing cars of the '50s and early '60s were called Spyders, named for the basic two-seat, horse-drawn buggy with a spindly top of the 1800s.
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Blackie Gejeian (ga-gee-an) has been traveling the country looking for the crme de la crme for his show held in March since he began in 1958...
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When the Ford GT burst onto the scene in 1964, American racing enthusiasts once again had something to cheer about...
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Coupes are rare in the kit car industry, a result of the greatly increased complexity of providing decent weatherproofing, sound deadening, heat shielding, and ventilation (non-issues on roadsters).
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"God Bless the Flat Heads!" said the back window on Alex Xydias' pickup. It was the 1952 Bonneville Nationals, and the writing was on more than just SO-CAL Speed Shop's shop truck: the overheads, as the Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles, and Chryslers portended, would so
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We can't think of anybody who has contributed as much to hot rodding as Wally Parks, who passed away on Friday, September 28.
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The NSRA Street Rod Nationals is the granddaddy of events that pulls street rodders together from every corner of the U.S. But did you know that a couple of fishing buddies at R&C kick started the whole shebang?
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Check out these versions of the 1953 Grantham Stardues.
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Inside The Speedway Motors Museum
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When KIT CAR Editor Eric Geisert and I were walking through a dense pack of Cobra clones at a car show recently, he wanted to know, based on all the different Cobra makes out there, how I could tell one make from the other. I started to make up a really good l
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A Fireman's Full House of Projects
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Museum showings may come and go, but history is forever. It's unfortunate the recent display of historic '40s- and '50s-era track roadsters at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum (www.nhra.com/museum) in Pomona, California, couldn't stick around as long as
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In 1959, the most popular detective show on the planet featured a jive-talking parking lot attendant who made up his own vocabulary and drove a flamed Model T hot rod. Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson (played by actor Edd Byrnes) was more popular than the two "na
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It wouldn't be accurate to call Keith Weesner an automotive artist. He's an artist. Sure, you can see his work in hot rodding magazines and on the chests of any fan who has purchased one of his T-shirts at a hot rod get-together--but you can also see it hangin
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Today, with the cost of gasoline heading into the stratos-phere, everyone-from politicians to real people-is screaming for more fuel-efficient vehicles. Big SUV sales have dropped, and alternate-fuel vehicles are once again the hot topic of conversation in the
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