Hot Rodding In The San Fernando Valley

Author : Mr. Tony T. Baker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1540260798
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Rodding in the San Fernando Valley written by Mr. Tony T. Baker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the once-vibrant hot rod scene in California's San Fernando Valley--from the iconic Bob's Big Boy drive-in to the San Fernando drag strip. Author and Los Angeles native, Tony Baker, grew up in Hollywood during the height of the sixties hot-rod scene. He has written six books on the subject of motor sports in California for Arcadia Publishing and has had articles published in Hot Rod magazine, Hot Rod Deluxe , and Rodder's Journal as well as regional history publications like the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly Journal . He currently lives in Ventura, California.

Author : Sylvia Townsend
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149682086X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bumpy Road written by Sylvia Townsend and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bumpy Road: The Making, Flop, and Revival of "Two-Lane Blacktop" chronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle, resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of director Monte Hellman's 1971 existentialist car-racing movie. Hellman's unconventional choices for the film included casting three nonactors--musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, as well as his girlfriend, Laurie Bird--in lead roles; shooting the movie in sequence from west to east on Route 66; and refusing to show the actors the full script, instead giving each his or her lines for the day. Before its release, Esquire put the film on its cover as the magazine's choice for movie of the year and printed the entire screenplay, leading moviegoers to expect a crowd-pleaser. Audiences anticipated that Two-Lane Blacktop would be an action-packed car-racing movie and were disappointed when nobody won or even finished the race, no one got the girl, the two leading men barely spoke, and the leading lady was foul-mouthed and promiscuous. Universal Studios Chairman Lew Wasserman found the film subversive and refused to release it on video. Years after it flopped, however, the movie soared in stature, and it is now revered by such contemporary directors as Quentin Tarantino and Richard Linklater, was honored with inclusion in the National Film Registry and was released on DVD and Blu-ray by the prestigious Criterion Collection and the highly regarded Masters of Cinema series. Author Sylvia Townsend conducts a comprehensive examination of the film, its reception, and the resurgence of interest it has more recently generated. Interviewing individuals involved in and influenced by the film, including James Taylor, Richard Linklater, Gary Kurtz, and scriptwriter Rudy Wurlitzer, Townsend provides an inside look at the cult classic.

Author : Michael Dregni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1610592042
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The All-American Hot Rod written by Michael Dregni and published by . This book was released on with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Madigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1616730439
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snake Vs. Mongoose: How a Rivalry Changed Drag Racing Forever written by Tom Madigan and published by . This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Schletty
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760339686
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hot Rod Reader written by Peter Schletty and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 today’s 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.

Author : Kevin Thomson, Billy F. Gibbons, David Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610609609
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Rod Kings written by Kevin Thomson, Billy F. Gibbons, David Perry and published by . This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the hot rodders we'll worship tomorrow. Kevin Thomson and David Perry venture into the shops of all-steel apostles Cole Foster, Gary Howard, Keith Tardel, the Kennedy Brothers, Jimmy White, Mike Smith, Rudy Rodriguez, Scott Mugford, and Mercury Charlie and offer profiles of todays top hot rod and custom builders. Hot rodders themselves, Thomson and Perry get to the heart of what makes todays hot rodders go, how they think, who they are, and what makes them builders worth watching.

Author : Bo Bertilsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1610591747
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rods and Customs written by Bo Bertilsson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer Lee
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415946681
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian American Youth written by Jennifer Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Dave McClelland, Tom Madigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610609388
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fuel and Guts written by Dave McClelland, Tom Madigan and published by . This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Thacker
Publisher : CarTech Inc
ISBN 13 : 1613255284
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Build Affordable Hot Rods written by Tony Thacker and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to build an affordable hot rod following the advice of the masters! In How to Build Affordable Hot Rods, author and lifelong hot rod aficionado Tony Thacker takes you through the process of building a hot rod on a budget. Drawing on his own extensive experience of both buying and building rods, Thacker explores the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good was setting a land speed record at Bonneville, the bad was buying a rod from which the previous owner had "swapped out" the good engine, and the ugly--well, let’s just not go there. How to Build Affordable Hot Rods includes extensive how-to sections that cover step-by-step chassis builds for Model A, 1932, and 1936 Fords, including front- and rear-end setups. The in-depth chassis builds are complimented with sections on powertrain choices, bodywork and roof chops, wheels and tires, and wiring and paint. Also included are chapters on interiors and the all-important details that individualize any project to ensure that it stands out from the rest. When Henry Ford introduced his beloved Model T, he unwittingly gave the average person the means to go racing. Prior to the T, racing was mostly a sport of the rich, but that changed with the Model T. Stripped of fenders and hopped up with speed parts, T speedsters ruled, and it wasn’t long before enthusiasm on the track translated to the street and the term hot rod entered the vernacular. Of course, it didn’t need to be a Ford (and still doesn’t), but the easiest and therefore cheapest route to Hot Rod Boulevard is down the Ford road. The journey accelerated after World War II, as hot rodding boomed with the growth of speed shops, car shows, drag racing, talented and trained GIs returning home, and the launch of Hot Rod magazine to spread the gospel far and wide. More than 100 years after the original Model T, hot rodding remains alive and well in the Australasia, Europe, and (of course) its birthplace the US.

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