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THE HOT ROD STORY
For the first time, Alex Xydias' classic film, THE HOT ROD STORY, is now available on Video Cassette. This feature-length, color and sound motion picture is a documentary history of the sport of Hot Rodding. Produced over a period of several years by Alex Xydias, a hot rod pioneer himself, this action-packed, often humorous, always exciting film, with rare, exclusive footage, covers four decades in the growth of the truly American automotive sport of hot rodding.
THE HOT ROD STORY begins in the 1930s with "hopped up" roadsters racing across dry lake beds of Southern California's Mojave Desert where many of the performance industry's first products were tested by young men like Edelbrock, Weiand, Iskendarian, and Hilborn. The film depicts the explosion of competition after World War II, the growth of car clubs, the birth of HOT ROD magazine, and the formation of the National Hot Rod Association... all instrumental in spreading the work Eastward until "Hot Rodding" became a national phenomenon.
In the late forties, car enthusiasts expanded their horizons to the World famous Bonneville Salt Flats and began an incredible assault on land speed records in every class. Xydias' So-Cal Speed Shop Special became the first "hot rod" to break the 200 mph barrier in 1950, and less than ten years later, Mickey Thompson's Challenger I broke the Land Speed Record at 406 mph! All of this action is covered in a great segment on Bonneville in the film.
With enthusiast's magazines spreading the word about the activities in California and Bonneville, young men throughout the country wanted in on the fun and excitement. Without the dry lake beds or salt flats, these hot rodders turned to the streets, a dangerous and sometimes fatal competition. The National Hot Rod Association, through its Safety Safari, quickly turned this great enthusiasm into what was to become hot rodding's major contribution to automotive sports... organized drag racing. The quarter-mile became famous, and the film documents the exciting action from the very beginning. Featured in the film is complete coverage of the NHRA First Nationals in Great Bend, Kansas in the Summer of '55.
Following the rapid growth of drag racing, THE HOT ROD STORY covers in-depth, the incredible action at the Bakersfield Smokers' events, the Winternationals in Pomona, and the NHRA Nationals at Indianapolis in 1963 when Don Garlits, Connie Kalitta, Pete Robinson, and Tony Nancy battle it out with an 'unknown' for Top Eliminator. These were days before Funny Cars, when Don Prudhomme and Tome McOuen drove front-engine dragsters, and the drivers smoked the tires all the way through the quarter-mile, not just in the "burn-out" area. Dragsters like the Green Monster, Bustle Bomb, and the Freight Train, and Super Stocks like Color Me Gone and Ramchargers' Old Reliable! It's all there — and much more — exciting boat drags and cruising with the famous cars of the L.A. Roadster Club and more!
THE HOT ROD STORY — a 70-minute, color-sound video featuring the men and machines that helped make hot rodding one of the most popular automotive sports in the world.
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