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The forerunners to the hotrod were the modified cars used in the Prohibition era by bootleggers to evade revenue agents and other law enforcement. [7]Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups.
Scott’s Hot Rods and Customs [19] 2009: 1932 Ford Roadster: Harry Willet [7] [18] 2010: 1933 Ford Roadster : Mike Dingman [7] Scott's Hot Rods and Customs [20] 2011: 1934 Ford Roadster: Daryl Wolfswinkel [7] Squeeg's Kustoms: 2012: 1927 Ford Roadster: Bill Lindig [21] SO-CAL Speed Shop [22] 2013: 1927 Ford Roadster: John Mumford [21] Roy ...
In 1949, while Al Slonaker was preparing for his first automobile show at the Oakland Exposition, an Oakland area hot rod club convinced him to exhibit ten of their cars . [8] The Inaugural show was a massive success, attracting over 100 cars and 27,674 attendees. [ 9 ]
The event moved first to [2] Oklahoma City's Oklahoma State Fairgrounds for the "4th annual National Championship Drag Races Sponsored by the National Hot Rod Association" in 1958, then moved to Detroit Dragway in Detroit, Michigan for 1959-1960 before moving to Indianapolis Raceway Park in 1961, and has remained there ever since, after a ...
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The Longhorn and Western Railroad is the Texas Transportation Museum's standard gauge heritage railroad that operates on its property with no connection to the general rail system. The L&W consists of approximately 5 ⁄ 8 -mile (1.0 km) of trackage in total, with its mainline that runs 1 ⁄ 3 -mile (0.54 km) from the east and west ends of the ...
The Ford Model A (also colloquially called the A-Model Ford or the A, and A-bone among hot rodders and customizers) [6] is the Ford Motor Company's second market success, replacing the venerable Model T which had been produced for 18 years.
The Hirohata Merc, one of the most famous cars in the lead sled style. A lead sled is a standard production automobile with a body heavily modified in particular ways [citation needed] [dubious – discuss] (see below); especially, though not exclusively, a 1949, 1950, or 1951 model year Ford 'Shoebox' or Mercury Eight car.