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The exciting history of hot rods, street rods, and drag racing brings fond memories to those who have "been there and done that". From the Drive-in gatherings and the races at the Lakes, to the legal drag strips and street rod shows, hot rods have had a tremendous impact on the automotive industry.
Relive the good old days of hot rods, with hundreds of vintage photos, many of them straight from rodders' albums and never before published. If you were there, you'll find familiar names and cars, and lots of memories. If you weren't, you'll gain insight on what shaped the current day street rods and dragsters. Don Montgomery's Hot Rod Books tell it like it was!
The evolution of various types of hot rods, including roadsters, coupes & sedans, modifieds, streamliners
and the early drag racers.
Hot Rods As They Were...$32.95
The days of hot rodding on the streets and gathering at the drive-ins are relived with memories of the guys, the activities,
the clubs and the hot rods.
Hot Rod Memories...$32.95
The history of the Supercharged Gas Coupe, the exciting and controversial drag racers of the mid-1960's.
Features the classes A/GS, B/GS and C/GS,
the class rules and the controversies.
Supercharged Gas Coupes...$32.95
Drag racing in the 1960's, featuring the most unpredictable, unbelievable and thrilling cars - the Fuel Altereds.
Those Wild Fuel Altereds...$33.95
The newest addition to our library. This book proceeds through the years from 1960 to 1969 showing many of the Dragsters and Funny Cars in competition and the terrific progress made in the sport during the 1960s.
Dragster and Funny Car Memories...$35.95
All books can be personalized and autographed by the author,
and make a great gift for any hotrodding or drag racing enthusiast !
The Flat Out Press
Albert Drake is one of the leading Hot Rod historians. His books span from the birth of hot rodding at the dry lakes in California to the muscle cars of the 60's. His favorite era is the fabulous 50's, a time when he lived the hot rodding life. All of the books by Al Drake reflect thousands of hours of research, yet are highly readable and very enjoyable.
The hot rod decade remembered by one who lived it... A car buff offers nostalgic memories of the way things were in the '50s. Cars with flames, drive-in movies, service stations, car clubs, and drag races all get their time in the spotlight in this collection of images from period photographs, catalogs, magazines, comics, and books. Softbound, 268 pages.
Bet you can't read this just once...We couldn't!!!
'Fifties Flashback...Signed copy...$19.95
California Dry Lake Trials 1930-1950. The definitive history of the sport during the Golden Age. Covers the beginnings, Muroc Racing Association, SCTA, the "bootleg races" during WW II and the postwar period. 300 photos of almost every notable dry lake car. Soft bound, 206 pages, 300 black and white photographs.
Flat Out...Signed copy...$19.95
This first history of hot rodding, from the 1920s to the 1990s as told in the participants' own words. Covers dry lakes, Bonneville, Track roadsters, customs, street rodding, etc. Contributors include Karl and Veda Orr, William Kenz, Dee Wescott, Joe Bailon, Big Bill Edwards, Henry Gregor Felsen, Jack Henry and 15 others. Soft bound, 8 1/2" x 11", 176 pages, 200 photographs.
Another of our favorites!
Hot Rodder From Lakes to Street...Signed copy...$16.95
Jammed with reprints of ads from 1948-1959, showing the many goodies and services that were available to hot rodders and custom car builders.
You won't stop drooling!
...Signed copy...$9.95
At mid-century, to own a good street roadster made sense. They were fun, swift, economical, handled well, and they were noticed! In those simpler days, when there were far fewer people around, far fewer laws and regulations, when the legal speed limit was 75 mph, when gas was cheap, when driving was a pleasure, if you owned a hot machine you could point the grill down an empty road and go! To the beach, the mountains, or just to the Tik Tok, Jim Dandy's, Flanagan's, to your favorite drive-in where you could make a cherry coke last all night while listened to Patti Page and Perry Como and watched the parade of cars that, in memory, seems endless.
Soft bound, 6"x 9", 88 pages, 42 rare photographs.
Street Was Fun in '51...Signed copy...$6.95
An adult novel about hot rodding and changing times.
Mill Sederstrom steps into a time warp when he returns from college to the small house where he grew up. But the world has changed, and Mill learns that one can't go home again-- not easily, nor completely anyway. Family pressures mount as his parents urge him to find the Big Job. He meets his younger brother, Tonto, and his gang--the "pavement dancers," a lethal group. A woman takes him to a roadhouse called "The Place," but it is not his place, the gangster who owns it tells him. The tension between brothers grows when Mill becomes involved with Tonto's girl friend. The uncomplicated life Mill had hoped for soon becomes complicated, and when serious trouble threatens he has no idea which of the several antagonists is responsible.
Beyond the Pavement.
Hardback, with dust jacket, 6" x 9", 188 pages Signed copy...$9.00
An oral history of the Pontiac GTO.
The story of the Goat straight from people who built it and drove it. Soft bound, 8 1/2" x 11", 138 pages, 90 photographs.
Herding Goats...
Signed copy...$14.50
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