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Shirley also was named Car Craft magazine Person of the Year during the annual Car Craft Awards Banquet, Indianapolis, Indiana. She was the first Top Fuel driver to win three NHRA national events back-to-back. She was the NHRA Winston world points championship for the second time in 1980.
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 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 ...
Combs died on August 27, 2019, after crashing a jet-powered car while setting a land-speed record as part of the North American Eagle Project on a dry lake bed in the Alvord Desert, Oregon. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The crash was caused by a failure of a front wheel, likely caused by hitting an object in the desert, which caused the front wheel ...
Coddington grew up in Rupert, Idaho, reading all the car and hot rod magazines he could, and got his first car (a 1931 Chevrolet truck) at age 13. [2] He attended machinist trade school and completed a three-year apprenticeship in machining. In 1968, he moved to California building hot rods by day and working as a machinist at Disneyland during ...
Sarah A. Anderson (1901–1992), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Sarah E. Anderson (1853–1900), member of the Utah State Legislature; Sarah Pia Anderson (born 1952), British television and theatre director; Sari Anderson (Sarah R. Anderson, born 1978), American multisport and endurance athlete
Ford Capri RS2600, touring car; Ford Capri RS3100, touring car [18] "Disco Volante" (Italian: Flying saucer) = 1952 Alfa Romeo 6C 34, sportscar [19] "Ensalada" (Spanish: Salad) = Ak Miller's El Caballo de Hierro, sportscar/hot rod [20] "The Flying Brick" = 1977 BMW 320 Turbo, sportscar [21] [22] 1984–1986 Volvo 240 Turbo, touring car [23]
A Hot rod is a typically American car with a large engine modified for linear speed. Hot Rod may also refer to: Hot Rod, a 1988 arcade game by Sega; Hot Rod, a 1950 American drama film; Hot Rod, an American film; Hot Rod, a film starring Andy Samberg; Hot Rod, an American car magazine