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| Chevrolet : Other Pickups 1953 Chevy Truck Shortbed 1 2 ton 3100 Hotrod airbagged Hot rod
$19,999.00 (8 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Other Pickups 1 2 ton p u 1950 Chevrolet p u rat rod, hot rod, street rod, custom
$3,800.00 $6,000.00 
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| Chevrolet : Other Pickups Chevrolet 1936 Custom Steel Body Chevrolet Hot Rod Truck Classic Muscle
$30,000.00 $35,000.00
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| Chevrolet : Other Pickups Hot Rod! CALIFORNIACLASSIX 1936 Chevrolet 1 2-Ton Stepside Pickup { 50 PHOTOS }
$18,544.01 (20 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Other Pickups 3100 rat rod, hot rod, chop top, custom
$8,350.00 (15 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Other Pickups 1937 Chevy Traditional Hot Rod Pick-up Project (90% finished)
$1,500.00 (8 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Other Pickups 3100 1950 Chevrolet Custom Chopped Pickup Hot Rod Rat Rod Suicide Doors
$1,125.00 (12 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Other Pickups 1939 Chevy Chevrolet Pick-up P U Old School Rat Hot Street Rod SBC No Reserve
$11,000.00 (0 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Other Pickups FLAT PAINT 1949 CHEVY TRUCK HOTROD ROD HOT ROD 1950, 51, 52, 53, 54 SHOP TRUCK
$12,500.00 $17,500.00
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| Chevrolet : Other Pickups 3100 1949 Chevrolet 3100 rust free Texas truck, original unmolested body, hot rat rod
$5,000.00 (13 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Other Pickups C10 classic, muscle car, street rod , hot rod, c10 pickup, panel truck
$13,099.00 (11 Bids) |
| Chevrolet : Other Pickups Chevrolet 1949 Pick Up 1 2 ton, excellent, original, hot rod, hard to find!
$2,550.00 $13,500.00
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| Chevrolet : Other Pickups 1959 CHEVY PICK UP, RAT ROD, BIG BLOCK, LOW RIDER, HOT ROD, FLAMES, OLD SCHOOL
$8,750.00 (21 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.