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In contrast to the hot rod racing popular in the US, this new series uses unmodified "stock cars". The series quickly becomes popular throughout the country. The Sports Car Club of America is founded; Oldsmobile introduces the 88, later to become competitive in racing and the subject of the famous rock and roll song Rocket 88
The forerunners to the hotrod were the modified cars used in the Prohibition era by bootleggers to evade revenue agents and other law enforcement. [7]Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups.
Hot Rod is the oldest magazine devoted to hot rodding, having been published since January 1948. [2] [3] Robert E. Petersen founded the magazine and his Petersen Publishing Company was the original publisher. The first editor of Hot Rod was Wally Parks, who went on to found the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). [4]
Pat Flaherty won the hot rod division of Soldier Field's 1949 racing championship. [20] Despite being eclipsed by stock car racing, Hot Rods would still race at the stadium for several years. [70] On July 25, 1954 Soldier Field hosted the Hurricane Hot Rod Association Mid-Season Championship. [6] Following World War II, the stadium held many ...
The following is an overview of the events of 1930 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.
Joanne Leonard (born 1940), photography of Oakland, Ca, autobiographical and family, and collage beinginpictures.com; Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photography of New York City, photos of the fictional Fae Richards for the film The Watermelon Woman; Rebecca Lepkoff (1916–2014), street scenes on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1940s
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