Out Of Print Books

By: David Grant . Of all of the pioneering custom-car builders to come to prominence in the 1950s— Harry Westergard, George Barris, and Dean Jeffries, among others—one of the most prolific was a young man from Modesto, California, named Gene...

By: Peter Vincent . You’ve seen the hot rods and custom rides, even looked into the hot rodding lifestyle, but what about where it all starts—in the garages humble or grand where countless hours of machining and wrenching, welding and...

By: Nick Freeth . America's Pacific coastline stretches for more than 2,000 richly varied miles - from Cape Flattery in the northwest to the border with Mexico. Nearly all of it is easily accessible by car, and Pacific Coast Highway is designed both...

By: Doug Mitchel . If you grew up reading the classic "green pages" in HOT ROD magazine – (or even if you didn't) -- you're going to love this lavish look inside some of the coolest hot rods around. In the old days the "green pages" information was...

By: Mark Christensen . Until 1946, hot rodding was generally considered a preoccupation of gearheads and juvenile delinquents. That all changed when car-crazy vets returned from the war with sophisticated mechanical training, courtesy of Uncle Sam. This...

By: Steve Reyes . Drag racing's golden age saw cars and engines pushing the envelope for more power, often resulting in a beautiful chaos that both drag fans and non-drag fans alike could relate to. Stepping directly into harm's way, Steve Reyes often...

By: George Barris, David Fetherston . George Barris is widely known as the "King of Kustomizers," a title that George has earned through his many years of innovative car building. Starting as a teenager who jazzed up his first car with flashy...

By: Billy F Gibbons . This is the 2011 published Paperback Edition of the original hardbound edition.Imagine stepping out of an air-conditioned Kwik-E-Mart and into the hot summer sun, cold soda in hand, when a long-and-low baby blue '62 Impala trolls...

By: Consumer Guide . A pictorial history of the sports car in America from 1946 to the present. Sports Car Chronicle is the fast- paced, illustrated story of the sports car in America. With more than 1000 photographs, period advertising, and fascinating...

By: Keith Harman . Great American Hot Rods chronicles over 360 amazing cars from the streets, shows and strips of America. The strict criterion of featuring only pre-1949 cars is observed but beyond that anything goes! The author identifies and codifies...

By: Tom Cotter . Legendary car designer, builder, and painter Dean Jeffries was never one to toot his own horn—part of the reason his extraordinary career in hot rods, Indy cars, TV and movie cars, and more has never been detailed as have those of...

By: Dain Gingerelli . Here are hot rodding's true pioneers--the guys who raced the lakes in the mid-century, the ones who broke the records, and those who, through sheer ingenuity, transformed discarded car bodies, flathead V-8s, and four-bangers into...