These stories highlight the inventors, racers, and show-winners from both past and present who have made hot rodding the art it is today!
Hot rods are built for speed and each is a unique creation reflecting its builder's vision. The Hot Rod Reader offers similar features with writings and excerpts that capture the excitement of hot rodding, the history of how it came to be, and the major events, people, cars, and builders who have brought hot rods to national attention.
The anthology includes diverse contributions from popular writers covering hot rods and custom cars--writers like Tom Wolfe, Jay Leno, Peter Vincent, and more. Also included are stories about the most daring, cutting-edge innovators in the hot rodding field today. The entire collection works like a field guide, helping readers to explore 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.
Dig deeper into a hobby that's all about tinkering with machines to make them go faster, look cooler, function better, and exceed expectations. Motivated by both craftsmanship and performance, hot rodders encourage us to push the limits of both mechanical objects and social acceptance, and in the process, they have redefined the driving experience. Read the full story of the hot rod with The Hot Rod Reader.

The Hot Rod Reader

Engineering & Transportation

Batchelor, Dean

Smith, LeRoi Tex

Roth, Ed

Baskerville, Gray

Parks, Wally

Petersen, Robert E.

WOLFE, Tom.

Automotive

Motorbooks

ow to Build Real Hot Rods Tex Smith. Legendary rodder Tex Smith shows you how to build the rod you've always wanted. This is no pretty picture (how-to" book, this is a get your hands dirty, tear it down, build it right book that shows you every step, trick, and turn of the wrench in putting your dream rod on the streets. Includes selecting components such as brakes, tranny, and engine, formulas for figuring gear ratios, engine RPMs, and a lot more.

Tex Smith's How to Build Real Hot Rods

Travel

Motorbooks, International

Nobody has had a greater influence on the world of hot rodding that Le Roi Tex Smith. Writer, builder, some time racer and mentor to hundreds of thousands of hot rodders all around the world, Smith has done it all and recorded much of it for prosterity, both as it occurred and here in his autobiography. Tex played a fundamental role in the establishment and growth of the automotive publishing industry, the promotion of the NHRA, the birth of such historic events as the Street Rod Nationals and even in bringing the inside story of the Moon Landing to the world. All the while he was a hands-on hot rod builder, completing many project cars of his own that influenced other hot rodders all over the world through his countless how-to articles and specialist books on the hobby. Inside Hot Rodding reveals many stories never before seen in print, together with dozens of photographs from Tex's own collection that have never been published. Not only is it Le Roi Tex Smith's life story, it is a unique insight into the very heart of hot rodding on an international scale.

Inside Hot Rodding: The Tex Smith Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Graffiti Publications

From one of the true legends in hot rodding comes the most complete and up-to-date guide to building hot rod chassis ever offered. Applicable to any make car or pickup truck, this guide covers frame repair, modification and construction, how to correctly install independent front and rear suspensions, solid front and rear axles, how to select springs, shocks, brakes and steering, how to make your hot rod handle, and more.

How to Build Hot Rod Chassis

Ceridono, Ron

Hot Rod Library

Now you can chop and finish your vehicle top yourself. Reduce body front area and increase top speed with expert instructions provided by master customizer Tex Smith. Learn from the master, as Smith leads you through the entire process step-by-step from start to fantastic finish.

How to Chop Tops (Hot Rod How to)

Johnson, Rich

Benefit from Smith's expert advice! Everything you need to know to build your own fiberglass rod or custom is in here, from buying a factory kit to detail work, priming and painting, repairs and more. Tex supplies his expertise so that you get the job done right!

How to Build Fiber Glass Hotrods, Customs & Kit Cars

This is the first and most exhaustive book available on the subject of Chop Tops. It contains over 200 pages, with step by step-by-step guidelines on hammering the lid on rods and customs, as well as pickups. This book covers all categories of tops with instructions applicable to customizing cars from the twenties and thirties, all the way up through todays automobiles.

Tex Smith's How to Chop Tops

CarTech, Inc.

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Books by Smith, LeRoi Tex