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unusual facts about Hot Rod


Hot Rod Girl

Flattop, Frank Gorshin, and the other Hot rodders, who hang out at Yo-Yo’s, Fred Essler, burger joint, only went to the police sponsored Dragstrip, because of Jeff urging them; but, now he doesn’t want anything to do with it.


Chip Foose

Chip Foose (born October 13, 1963 in Santa Barbara) is an American hot rod shop owner, automotive designer and fabricator, and star of the reality TV series Overhaulin' on Velocity.

Howard Nostrand

For Fawcett Comics, he did work in Hot Rod Comics, an adaptation of the 1951 John Huston film The Red Badge of Courage and "a couple of Westerns", including the movie spin-off feature "Lash LaRue".

Kustom Kar Kommandos

The 3-minute short features panning shots of a young man (Sandy Trent) buffing a customized hot rod in front of an amorphous pink background, to the tune of "Dream Lover" by The Paris Sisters.

Mi-Jung Lee

Lee has appeared as a reporter or news anchor in several TV shows and films including Snakes on a Plane, X-Men: The Last Stand, Tron: Legacy, Hot Rod and Watchmen.


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Alex Xydias

In 1946, immediately after Xydias was discharged from the United States Army Air Corps, he opened the So-Cal Speed Shop in Burbank, one of the first hot rod shops in Southern California.

California Hot Rod Reunion

California Hot Rod Reunion is a gathering of drag racers, hot rod enthusiasts and street rodders held in Bakersfield, California.

Darryl Starbird

He is one of a group of designers and artists including Ed Roth, George Barris, Norm Grabowski, Dean Jeffries, Bill Cushenberry and the great pinstripe artist Kenny Howard (nicknamed Von Dutch), who presided over one of the most productive and creative periods of American custom car and hot rod design.

Starbird currently owns and operates Darryl Starbird's National Rod & Custom Car Hall of Fame Museum in Afton, Oklahoma, which features many of his cars as well as other notable examples from the history of custom car and hot rod culture.

Ding Dong Daddy

He is based on legendary hot rod enthusiast/painter/pinstriper Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.

Ghastly Ones

They infused their love of Halloween records, late night monster movies and Screaming Lord Sutch with inspiration from early sixties surf and hot rod acts like The Lively Ones, Avengers VI, and The Del-Aires to create the first "spooky surf" band.

High Voltage Hot Rod Show

High Voltage Hot Rod Show was inspired by games such as R.C. Pro-Am and Micro Machines, with the style of the characters and vehicles taking inspiration from Kustom Kulture and the artwork of Ed Roth and Kenny Howard amongst others.

Hot Rod Circuit

In addition drummer Michael Poorman became Wes Cross's replacement.In support of the release, Hot Rod Circuit did national tours with bands such as Jimmy Eat World and Reggie and the Full Effect, and eventually an acoustic tour with The New Amsterdams, known as "The Hot Amsterdams Tour."

Jack Beckman

Beckman is also an instructor for Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing school, (the official driving instruction school of the National Hot Rod Association).

Juxtapoz

Juxtapoz launched with the mission of connecting modern genres like psychedelic and hot rod art, graffiti, street art, and illustration, to the context of broader more historically recognized genres of art like Pop, assemblage, old master painting, and conceptual art.

Little Deuce Coupe

This was considered by many to be the definitive "hot rod" and featured an optional Ford flathead V8 engine when the car was introduced.

Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington

A few miles south of San Bernardino, California, in the small town of Bloomington in 1945, a particular group of veterans and POBOB founder Otto Friedli who was too young to have served in the war, found civilian life to be too slow and set out to get more thrills by riding motorcycles and hot rod cars.

Vince Alascia

Mostly, however, Alascia worked with Charlton Comics of Derby, Connecticut, where he was teamed with Charles Nicholas (the 1921-1985 comics artist of that name) on a full gamut of crime, suspense, mystery, science fiction, war, Western, romance, and hot-rod titles, beginning with Crime and Justice #16 (Jan. 1953).

Xydias

Alex Xydias, the first person to break the 200 mph barrier with his Hot Rod So-cal-Streamliner.