Hot Rod - Street Rod or Hot rods are modified older — even historical — cars. Originally the term was used to the practice of taking an old car, usually a Ford, and improving its performance by reducing weight (usually by removing roof , hood , bumpers , windscreen and fenders ), lower it, change or tune the engine to give more power, add fat wheels for traction and paint it to make it stand out. The term may have originated from "hot roadster " and the term was used in the 1950s and 1960s as a derogatory term for any car that did not fit into the mainstream . Other sources indicate that the term was derived from replacement of connecting rods in engines to allow higher RPMs to be reached without parts failure. When hot rodding became commercialized in the 1970s , magazines and associations catering to "street rodders" were started.
Hot rodders or Street Rodders, including Wally Parks created the National Hot Rod Association NHRA to bring racing off the streets and onto the tracks. The annual California Hot Rod Reunion and National Hot Rod Reunion are held to honor pioneers in the sport. The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum houses the very roots of hot rodding and Street Rods. Nowadays people who own hot rods or street rods keep them clean and try to make them noticeable. Those who work according to the original idea of cheap, fast and no frills are often called rat rods . There are many magazines that you can look at to see real hot rods and street rods, including The Rodders Journal, while commercial magazines that include Hot Rod Magazine , Street Rodder , and Popular Hot Rodding cover street rods. There are also television shows like My Classic Car , and Horsepower TV . Hot rods and street rods are an important and iconic part of American culture.
Author Tom Wolfe was one of the first to recognize the importance of hot rodding in popular culture , and bring it to mainstream attention, as described in his book The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby .
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