Hot-rodding is something popular among the Yankees. Because of its popularity of this phenomenon among the youths in the New lands, all magazines make it a point to cover it. Glossy print names such as The Rodders Journal, Hot Rod Magazine, Street Rodder, Popular Hot Rodding, and Rod and Custom Magazine feature this staple activity in the American life in full colours.

Apart from print, hot-rodding have gained mileage in the visual media also. Discovery Channel has telecasted many

hot-rod documentaries such as Monster Garage, American Hot Rod, and Overhaulin’. The television shows like My Classic Car and Horsepower TV also had telecasted episodes on hot-rodding.

According to Tom Wolfe in his book “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,” the fascination for hot-roddding make Americans unique in their tastes and preferences. Even the Beach Boys sang about it in “My Little Deuce Coupe.”

Hot-rodding showed its first signs in the 1930’s in Southern California where people started modifying light cars with big engines and began racing them on the vast and empty lake beds northeast of Los Angeles. The original hot rods were old cars that were converted weightless with improved aerodynamics. The post World War II period witnessed many abandoned small airports across the country, which became venues for hot rodders to race on marked courses. World War II played its role in making the sports popular in California where a lot of returning soldiers had been given technical training in modification of cars.

It was the popularity of hot rodding that made 1932 Ford Roadster a big hit in the automobile industry. This car came with a very affordable engine, the V8, which made a nation that was obsessed with speed.

Many muscle cars like Plymouth Roadrunner and the Pontiac GTO were brought out into the automobile market by Ford with in a few years. In January 2007, hod rod culture celebrated its 75th anniversary by releasing The 75 Most Influential “1932 Ford Hot Rods”. Anyone who has a craze for hot rodding cannot shut their eyes towards Ford Roadster. If you wanted to be an American in America, you have to drive this elegant model from the Detroit motor giant. No doubt in that.

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