Art of the Hot Rod

Experience hot rods like never before! The best hot rods are art on four wheels, and this book, a collection of studio photography of the cars produced by the world’s top hot-rod builders, is nothing less than a gallery of the best of American hot rodding.

Profiling top builders like Pete Chapouris, Roy Brizio, Vern Tardel, Troy Trepanier, and 15 others and featuring studio portraits of their most outstanding custom creations, this book celebrates the uniquely American marriage of mechanical know-how to an inspired sense of style and design. Built from the ground up, pieced together from salvaged parts, rebuilt with classic looks and futuristic technology—these are automotive works of art, as powerful on the page as they are on the street.

Through the stunning portraiture of master photographer Peter Harholdt, Art of the Hot Rod captures these magnificent creations as never seen before.

FOREWORD
Hot Rod Shops, Then and Now BY ALEX XYDIAS, So-Cal Speed Shop founder
 
Acknowledgments and Introduction
 
Chapter 1 DAVE SIMARD: Driven to Perfection
Chapter 2 JIM LOWREY JR.: Right the First Time
Chapter 3 ROLLING BONES: These Guys Reinvented Attitude
Chapter 4 KEN “POSIES” FENICAL: Making a Statement
Chapter 5 ALAN JOHNSON: They’ll Stop at Nothing
Chapter 6 BOBBY ALLOWAY: Playing with Fire
Chapter 7 TROY TREPANIER: Boy Genius
Chapter 8 BARRY LOBECK: Full Cleveland
Chapter 9 RICK DORE: Art and Color Exemplified
Chapter 10 DAVE CROUSE: “Bringing Them Back Alive”
Chapter 11 DONN LOWE: The Vanguard of Vintage
Chapter 12 STEVE FRISBIE: Transcendental Mechanization
Chapter 13 DON OROSCO: The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection
Chapter 14 RICHARD GRAVES: There’s No Way Like the Old Way
Chapter 15 KENNEDY BROTHERS: Bombs Away!
Chapter 16 PETE CHAPOURIS: This Changes Everything
Chapter 17 ZANE CULLEN: Youth Will Be Served
Chapter 18 STEVE MOAL: The Past Is Prologue
Chapter 19 ROY BRIZIO: Driven to Succeed
Chapter 20 VERN TARDEL: Time Warp
 
Photo Notes
Index