Chevrolet
| Chevrolet : Silverado 1500 Flawless Hot Rod Pick Up with Flames
$14,750.00 $18,000.00 
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| Chevrolet 1941 Chevy Roadster Rat Rod Hot Rod Custom
$7,500.00 (10 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Camaro RS 1972 Camaro Super Street Hotrod 502hp 502!!!!!!!!
$10,000.00 $17,900.00
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| Chevrolet : Bel Air 150 210 1960 Bel Air Airride Low miles Biscayne Air ride Hotrod
$18,400.00 (17 Bids) |
| Chevrolet 2 DR 1941 CHEVY SEDAN STREET HOT RAT ROD STREETROD NO FORD
$6,450.00 $7,400.00
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| Chevrolet : Bel Air 150 210 Custom 1955 Chevrolet Chevy 2 Door Sedan Post Rat Hot Rod
$10,100.00 $13,750.00
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| Chevrolet : Fast roadster Hot Rod dragster vintage car race drag Hotrod Alcohol
$111,200.00 (0 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Nova wagon 1965 nova wagon street rod hot rod
$16,000.00 (0 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : C-10 CHEVY C10 1971 CHEVY C10 HOT ROD
$2,500.00 $6,900.00
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| Chevrolet : Bel Air 150 210 1958 Chevy HOT ROD CUSTOM
$17,755.00 (19 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Bel Air 150 210 1957 Chevy Bel Air Frame Off Hot Rod Excellent
$27,600.00 (7 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : C-10 custom hot rod
$9,000.00 (0 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Camaro camaro ss z28 convertible hot rod touring 6 speed rare
$5,000.01 (6 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Corvette Sting Ray 1964 Corvette Coupe, Luxury, Hot Rod
$45,000.00 $51,000.00
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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.