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Hot Rod is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer (in his directorial debut) and written by Pam Brady. The film stars Andy Samberg as amateur accident-prone stuntman Rod Kimble, whose stepfather, Frank (Ian McShane), continuously mocks and disrespects him. When Frank becomes ill, Rod raises money for his heart operation by ...
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a governing body which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada. With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorsport sanctioning body in the world.
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]
Started in the sales competition between the major American automobile manufacturers General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in the 1950s and 1960s, fueled by low cost oil and the horsepower available from ever larger and more powerful V-8 engines underneath two carburetors, and administered by sanctioning organizations such as the National Hot Rod ...
Jill asks Tim to fix the ice dispenser on the refrigerator, replace the knob on the back door and repair the burner on the stove, but all he is interested in is getting his hot rod's engine to turn over. Jill calls a repairman, but Tim distracts him with the hot rod, leaving Jill angry.
Hot rod music was largely a product of a number of surf music groups running out of ideas for new surfing songs and simultaneously shifting their lyrical focus toward hot rods. Hot rod music would prove to be the second phase in a progression known as the California Sound, which would mature into more complex topics as the decade passed. Hot ...
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Rodrigo John Blankenship (born January 29, 1997), [1] nicknamed "Hot Rod", [2] [3] is an American professional football placekicker for the St. Louis Battlehawks of the United Football League (UFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs , [ 4 ] where he kicked the longest field goal in Rose Bowl history.