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Stories from the people who cruised & raced Woodward. Featured are the efforts by the factories to build cars that the Woodward crowd would buy and race. Includes everything that surrounded Woodward’s action, incl. Detroit’s DJs who provided the cruisers' musical sound-track, the hang-outs and drive-ins, the high performance new car dealer-ships...
100 color photos, 200 b/w photos Von Dutch is one of the most interesting characters in hot rod and popular culture history. Considered the founder of "modern" pinstriping, he was a prominent character in many of the rodding magazines of the late '50s, and his fame endured long after he apparently tired of it. Besides being a striper, he was a gifted...
An unprecedented collection of the unique American art that graced military aircraft in World War II and the Korean War. Applied by amateurs or professional artists like Vargas and Brinkman, the art typically featured alluring women whose charms belied the deadly cargo the crew hoped to deliver to its targets. Hundreds of examples are shown in a...
This book covers the history of the Holden Torana from 1967-1980 and is 304 pages crammed full of large photos, the development story, prototype images, paint details, trim numbers and materials and production identification. 304 pages hardcover book
Culled from hours of interviews with Winfield and recounts everything from his early days in Modesto and his emersion in California car culture, to his role in forming the Century Toppers car club, his involvement in dry lakes racing, the formation of Winfield's Custom Shop in 1955, and the impressive string of vehicles that followed.
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...
In 1970 for the L.A. Times' supplement, West magazine, this collection of intensely personal photography subverts today's prevalent recollections of Kenneth 'Von Dutch" Howard, as an ill-tempered, mean-spirited genius, showing instead an enigmatic icon during a rare period of relative domestic blisss in an otherwise tempestuous life. 128 color pages
A story of American innovation and passion populated by a veritable who’s who of hot rodding and motorsport legends. Includes an afterward detailing the resurrection of the S0-CAL Speed shop and its new breed of land-speed cars.The ability of U.S. car enthusiasts to satisfy their need for speed changed dramatically in the late 1940s as car-crazy...
The Front-Engine dragster era. Follow the history of the front-engine dragster in Slingshot Spetacular: The Front-Engine Dragster Era, with over 350 vintage photos & personal stories to help you smell the nitro & feel horse-power of the good old days of front-engine, top-fuel racing.
The images in Rusty Pickups make a great collection brimming with nostalgia. When these dramatic images are teamed with print sales advertisements from when the truck was new, the resulting difference makes the book even more compelling. This collection combines all these elements together in this beautiful, colorful and even graceful tribute to...
The shop that has defined modern hot rodding; Roy Brizio Street Rods is known for building street rods that are meant to be driven-hard and fast, day after day after day. Examines the family legacy and profiles dozens of the standout cars that have rolled out of the South San Francisco shop. Focuses on ground-up Brizio builds and explores some of the...
THIS BOOK WAS DUE TO BE PRINTED IN FEBRUARY 2012 BUT HAS NOW BEEN DELAYED DUE TO EXTRA MATERIAL BEING INCLUDED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE UPDATES ABOUT AVAILABILITY AND PRICE, PLEASE EMAIL sales@graffitipub.com.au OR PHONE 03 5472 3653
NOW IN STOCK As a response to the high-dollar billet-based street rod trend, budget-limited home-based rod builders looked to the past for inspiration and style, and rat rods were the result. These 'imperfectly fine' rods rarely sport paint jobs of any kind, and their owners aren't...
DUE IN MAY 2012 PREORDER NOW Many stories chronicle the adventures of collector car buyers doing intense research, checking many sites, and making umpteen phone calls to discover an extremely valuable yet forgotten muscle while others simply fall into lucky car collector's...
“Old School” is “Deuce“ coupes and Model A roadsters. It is chromed engines and scud exhaust stacks. It is parts and pieces attached in ways the factory never dreamed about. And it definitely is 'the look. Go to the head of your car appreciation classes as you go cruisin' inside the pages of Old School Hot Rods. Class is in session with 24 different...
Features chopped, sectioned, shaved, decked, flamed, nosed, frenched, lowered, scalloped, striped, & slammed cars that exemplify traditional custom car design. Alan Mayes includes profiles of top builders from across the country, with colour photos profiling the builder's work.
Covers Monaro models HI HT HG HQ HQSS HJ HX HXLE HZ V2 VX HSV Coupe GTO Pontiac 1968-2006. Features Monaro development HK HQ LE and V2 Coupe. Packed with new images, stripe info production numbers, paint and trim colours. Full Colour 288 pages, hard cover.
In Lost Hot Rods, we attempt to answer the questions about whatever happened to these great cars. We're not talking about vintage tin sitting in the desert or woods, or old cars parked in farm fields. Nearly all of these vintage rods and customs were found in urban or suburban garages.
Starting in Chicago and running to Santa Monica, this book highlights the sights along the hwy with historic & current photos in then-and-now pairings, and includes Route 66 postcards, road signs, trinkets, maps, brochures, and adverts. Several profiles of those with close ties to the Mother Road, including the woman who played Ruthie Joad in the...
Professional freelance photographer James Potter captured the epicenter of the custom car scene in what was then suburban Los Angeles. In this pictorial history of that time & place, Thom Taylor presents the best of Potter’s collection.
How to Build Period Correct Hot Rods explains how to identify, buy or build the parts to create a faithful period correct hot rod.. a car that you will be proud of and will gain the respect from others in the hobby. The book showcases all the parts that make an authentic hot rod of a certain era, flavour or style, including 50s and 60 styles
•Roadsters •Coupes •Customs Gain ideas and inspiration for your project. Hundreds of custom fabrication and paint ideas. Chop and channel styles, and other examples. Interiors, engines, lighting and more.
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 photography, Vincent will capture America's most essential hot rods, hot rodders, and racers in dramatic settings such as the Bonneville Salt Flats and California's...
The American Hot Rod Federation brings together some of hot rodding’s best-known and most respected journalists to celebrate the achievements and daring exploits of the sport’s founding figures, in all their gritty glory.
An all-new collection of images winningly riffing on the timeless theme of girls 'n' cars - specifically, girls 'n' hot rods. In the garage, on the road, at the race, these sumptuous pictures by the master of contemporary hot rod pin-up photography recall classic 1950s illustrators like Vargas and Elvgren. Essays by male and female stars of the hot rod...
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