Mazda : MX-5 Miata 1990 Miata V-8 Monster, hot rod, race car, track day, High Performance $9,600.00 $12,500.00

Chevrolet : Malibu Malibu 1978 MALIBU Fast, Pro street, Hot rod, Drag Car, Nitrous Big Block $19,000.00

Ford : Other Pickups F-1, Rat Rod, Hot Rod, Street Rod, Project Truck $1,776.00 $5,000.00

Chevrolet : Other Pickups street rod, classic, custom, hot rod , C10 $6,099.00 (23 Bids)

Dodge : Other A108 A100 FLYING BRICK 1969 DODGE A108 A100 PANEL VAN MAX WEDGE HOT STREET ROD SURF $6,800.00 (12 Bids)

Oldsmobile : Eighty-Eight super 88 two-door hardtop olds super 88 2-door hardtop, low miles, restore, rat, hotrod, custom, must see, red $7,557.77 (24 Bids)

Ford : Model A 1930 1931 Ford Model A traditional modified roadster hotrod ratrod project $2,750.00 (3 Bids)

Ford : F-100 1948 Ford F100 Hot Rod Rat Street Race Show truck custom 49 50 $7,000.00 (17 Bids)

Willys : pickup 41 willys pickup 41 willys fiberglass hotrod pickup body package $6,700.00 (0 Bids)

Ford : Other 1950 Ford , Shoebox, rat rod, hot rod, custom, 302 c4 , , chevy, 1951, 1949 $5,488.88 (14 Bids)

Plymouth : Other 1929 Plymouth streetrod hotrod ratrod $4,150.00 (6 Bids)

Ford : Other Pickups 1948 FORD PICKUP TRUCK-SOLID BODY, TRANS, ENGINE -RESTORATION, HOT ROD, RAT ROD, $1,000.00 (0 Bids)

Pontiac : Firebird 2002 Pontiac Firebird Auto V8 WS6 Replica Hot Rod $9,999.00

Pontiac : Firebird 400 CONVERTIBLE 1967 PONTIAC FIREBIRD 400 CONVERTIBLE MUSCLE CAR HOT ROD MUSCLE $10,990.00 (11 Bids)

Buick : Other Riviera 1950 Buick Super Hardtop Bomb Sled Hotrod Hot Rod Ratrod Rat Rod Lowrider $2,025.00 (14 Bids)

Chevrolet : Bel Air 150 210 b210 1956 chevy 210 2 door post hotrod-streetrod-gasser $20,099.00 (10 Bids)

A lot has been written about the origins of the hot rod and the development of the culture that gave rise to them and then grew up around them. This is my own personal take on the subject, and I'm sure others with more detailed knowledge (including the many who were there) might well disagree with my thoughts. With that caveat, I place the defining origin point for hot rods and hot rod culture as the end of World War II. A number of factors came together at one time -- the period between the end of the war in 1945 and the begining of the 1950s -- and mainly in one place -- southern California -- to create a unique environment in which the hot rod and its culture were born. At the end of the war, a legion of young men returned to America with a wad of demobilization cash in their pockets and a sense of freedom and excitement bred by their experiences in the war. With a period of peace and the steadily increasing prosperity of the country as a backdrop, these young men had a "can-do" attitude and a desire to express themselves in ways that their time in the military had stifled. And, all of a sudden, there were a lot of inexpensive used cars available. For five years Detroit had basically been in the business of supplying the military. Now all that production capacity was turned to creating a stream of new cars to satisfy the pent-up demand of a civilian population that had scrimped and saved throughout the Great Depression of the 1930s and the sacrifices of the war years. Men who'd stayed behind to work in America's offices and factories had a lot of savings and they were ready to ditch their aging cars from the 1920s and 1930s for gleaming new models offered by the Big Three (and the others who are now gone, like Wilys and Kaiser). Their trade-ins became the starting point of the hot rodders, and came to define the way they were built and how they looked.These factors dictated the core aesthetic of the classic American hot rod. It was the later Model Ts and the plentiful early-30s Fords and Chevys that became the raw material for the young men who created hot rodding and hot rod culture. Here's a picture of a '32 Ford Roadster, a contemporary car, but one built on the style of those first hot rods. The basic performance and engineering elements of the hotrod came together in these cars: More power, less weight and a look derived from these things leading to chopped tops, channeled bodies, pinched frames, dropped axles and, eventually wide tires. And why southern California? Again, a lot has been written about the question of why southern California became the seed-bed for so much cultural change in the second half of the twentieth century. Part of it was Hollywood, part simply that the western part of the country had reached a critical mass of prosperity and population sufficient to establish itself as a new center of culture distinct from the old center in the northeast. But a few factors made southern California the right place for the birth of hot rodding. One was the climate: with year-round perfect temperature and little rainfall, young men of little means could work outside on cars that had few creature comforts themselves. More important, Los Angeles was the first city truly shaped from its beginnings by the automobile: There were more roads, and new ones there. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, was "the lakes," the dry lake beds just east of L.A. that became a magnet for the chopped and stripped-down speed machines. Here the hot rodders found miles and miles of hard, glass-flat surface upon which to run their machines.