HotRods And Their History

In 1941, a monthly publication called Throttle Magazine was designed to show track racing results, showing off some of the better cars, and also reporting on new safety and speed issues. But in 1941, with the U.S. getting pulled into World War II, hot rodding would have to be put on hold. But hot rods history shows that at the end of the World War II, many small military airports throughout the country that were no longer being used or abandoned started allowing hot rodders to race on the runways. With the hot rodding gaining popularity, many magazines and associations catering to Hot Rodders started and an organization was needed to promote the images of Hot Rodders.

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Here is the great thing about hot rodding. Just try and define it. Study this crazy hobby for more than a minute and already its heading in a band new direction. That's the major part of rodding's appeal. The relative lack of boundaries. We can say this thing of ours involves fun with internal combustion in some forum, combined with a big helping of individual expression. Beyond that hot rodding has always defied definition. What are hot rods? Machines built by hot rodders. Who are hot rodders? The people that build hot rods. While it's possible to construct more complicated definitions that is pretty much the long and the short of it.

A trad or a traditional rod is built to rigorous historical standards. The ideal trad rod might be a 40 or 50 year old hot rod barn find second best would be a very accurate replica. Thad rod can be period originals,restorations.or brand new builds, but the most important consideration is historical accuracy. The car most be faithful to the period in hot rodding it represents. Ok for example, a trad rod build for a late 50's look would not include billet wheels or a megawatt audio system

. Trad rod builders search the country and scour the Internet looking for authentic sheet-metal and vintage speed equipment for their rods which can really put a big dent in your wallet. You can go out and buy reproduction parts for a lot of the builds trad rodders want the real deal down to the smallest detail.

The rat rod is much more fun to build. It's not intended to capture the precise look and detail of an early hot rod so much as the flavor and the experience of early rodding.

Rat rodders take the approach that hot rodding was originally performed with junkyard parts. But since the original parts from the first generation have become so rare and expensive, rat rodders allow themselves more license.

They use whatever they can find in the junk pile as long as the parts is close to the same year or era that they are looking for. They mite run across a front end of a tractor from the same era and the rod they are building it mite be a good chance it will end up on the rat rod Stuff like that is what makes a ratrod old and funky looking.Just like the front end on this rat rod the front end came off of a old case tractor and it works great