Dean Batchelor'sThe American Hot Roddescribes how, in the 1940s, a modified had the body ... This 1927 Ford Model T roadster has a lot of HOT ROD history, appearing in both July 1950 and Dec ...

Owner Matt Winter carefully researched how hot rods looked in the '40s and built his roadster to look as as period-correct as possible; using all vintage genuine parts that early hot rodders would ...

and "hot rod" could refer to that phenomenon. The term became common in the 1940s for a car that had been "hopped up" by modifying the engine in various ways to achieve higher performance.

What are the most famous hot rods? The most influential, history-changing cars in this ... the dry lakes of the Mojave Desert in the early '40s. In 1947, after serving in WWII, he began building ...

Internally known as the Ford Model B, the car slowly became a hot rod hit towards the early '40s, and to this day the Ford V8 "Deuce" remains the embodiment of the hot rod concept. Following the ...

Having grown up in the 1940s, I know how important hot ... the powers that be at Pebble Beach to recognize hot rods for their importance in history. Finally, I broke them down.

Flathead-powered hot rods continued to be popular throughout the 20th century. Even with the rise of the arguably superior small block Chevy and Ford 351 mills, hot rodders kept shoving flatheads ...

LIMA — A customized vehicle is much like a tattoo: It’s personal and highly cherished. Many Rat Rods seen today have gotten their start from the basic cars of the 40s, 50s, and early 60s.

As a sub-culture of the car hobby, ol' skool rods or rat rods as they are often called, is growing in size and importance. For example, ol' skool cars play an expanding role each year at the ...