The Hot Rod Reader

About this book

This anthology of hot rod writings and excerpts chronicles the joys of hot rodding the historical circumstances of its creation and the major events people cars and builders who brought hot rods to the national stage. From popular writers of the era to those covering todays cutting edge innovators this collection explores various themes within hot rodding through news articles essays fiction interviews and more with more than 60 color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs to illuminate each excerpt and story. Writers include Gray Baskerville Ed Roth Wally Parks Dean Batchelor Robert E. Petersen Tom Wolfe LeRoi "Tex" Smith and many more.