Hot Rod, Custom

Author: Timothy Remus, Softbound, 319 Pages, ISBN: 9780760322659, First Edition, 2006 **VERY RARE BOOK IN EXCELLENT UNREAD CONDITION** Hot rods can't afford to be all show. Sharp styling and paint need to be backed with a muscular motor and...

By: Tony Thacker, Richard Karl Koch . A famously crazed presence in the hot rod movement of the 1950s, rediscovered in the 1980s when 50s nostalgia swept pop culture, Kenneth "Von Dutch" Howard spent more than a decade essentially missing-in-action from...

By: Pat Ganahl . In 1932, Ed Roth was born to German immigrant parents in Beverly Hills, California. He grew up in Bell, just south of Los Angeles, and according to his brother, Gordon, always had an aptitude for things both mechanical and artistic. In...

By: Peter Vincent . ** SECOND-HAND BOOK IN GOOD ORDER ** Aesthetics are at the core of hot rodding. And nothing captures the visual essence of the hot rod like Peter Vincent's photography. In brilliant color and fully-saturated black-and-white...

By: Tony Thacker . In 1931, Henry Ford announced that his company would produce an eight-cylinder car, if only because its competitors were building fours and sixes. The result, introduced in 1932, was Ford Motor Company’s first V8-powered car. The...