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Pat Ganahl, is editor of The Rodder's Journal and past editor of Hot Rod, Rod and Custom, and Street Rodder magazines, as well as a contributor to numerous others.

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This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
Another great collection of photos and commentary by Pat Ganahl. If you've owned or at least looked over the first volume "Hot Rod Gallery" you'll know the fine quality of this sequel - full of photos, anecdotes and commentary of hot rods and builds. Not only is this a fine pictorial essay of rat rod culture, it's also an historical account of racing from an that started what we call custom culture - the conversion of a conventional car into something else, something worth dragging down main against your rivals. I love the many photos of wrecked junk as "before" and what each car became after conversion. There are also some good photos showing classic techniques, like bodywork leading (whole chapter on it actually) that's a nearly lost technique.

If you're into classic racing this is a fine continuation by Pat Ganahl of his earlier volume, you'll be pleased with this one also.

Note that this book was obtained via LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program.
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johnnyapollo | 14 andre anmeldelser | Dec 25, 2018 |
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Another great racing, rebuild and photo historic book from Car-Tech, authored by Pat Ganahl. Who can say enough about these racing machines? What a great era of excitement and entertainment, not to mention what these drivers did and learned while building or rebuilding these vehicles. The lines on many were fantastic. Beautiful, smooth, imagine what the younger generation of racers would have learned and the older had learned that would stand them in good stead in the future (not so easy after automatics and electronics became the norm). These books are priceless in their content.… (mere)
 
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readerbynight | 14 andre anmeldelser | Jan 29, 2017 |
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Pat Ganahl has compiled another top-notch book on hot rods. This one picks up where Hot Rod Gallery left off. More photos, more history and lots more to learn!

1945-1960 was the peak periods for hot rods especially in Southern California. The GIs were out of the military and anxious to marry, buy a car, settle down in a GI house, buy a car, get a good job, buy a car. Sense a trend here?

The cars they saw at the drag strip, street racing and at shows were pretty cheap at the time. The builders of these cars didn’t mind selling them because there was always another one to customize. There are photos in the books showing absolutely fabulous hot rods. Cars that I have never heard of, never seen but would sure like to!

Also, AMT and Revell started the model car craze in about 1958 and boys (and big boys!) all over the country fell in love with cars that were 1/25th scale and very buildable. The only thing keeping them back wad their imagination.

Altogether another excellent source for photos and info on hot rods in America and the men who built them.
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macygma | 14 andre anmeldelser | Dec 14, 2016 |
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This took a little while to recieve it. There were tons of pictures in it and it looked very good. I gave this to my father because he loves cars. While he was interested in it, it wasn't something that he just had to look at right away. The pictures were interesting but he merely flipped through it quickly when he first got it.
 
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halstead898 | 14 andre anmeldelser | Nov 2, 2016 |

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