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hot rod
noun
Typically a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster. The term may be used generically to apply to any car, truck, or motorcycle (et al.) modified for increased speed and/or performance. It may also be used to specifically describe and refer to modified cars from the original (or traditional) era of "hot rods", post World War II and prior to 1960.
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Hot Rod magazine's November 1950 cover announced the first hot rod to exceed 200 mph.
When Hot Rod Gang (1958) turned a profit, hot rod horror was given a try: Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959).
In an interview in May, Boyd Coddington Boyd Coddington, one of the nation's preeminent hot rod builders and the star of the Discovery Channel's American Hot Rod, said, "My definition of a hot rod is a '32 Ford".
HOT ROD Opens today nationwide.
14 HOT ROD, directed by Akiva Schaffer.
"I read Hot Rod magazine growing up," he said.
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Hot rod-to-background ratio.
Hot rod-to-background ratio (HBR) = Hr/BKG.
Wear the shop jacket to work on your hot rod--or to look like you do.
I'm more of a hot-rod girl".
Hot-rod racing spread rapidly after World War II, and in 1951 the National Hot Rod Association was founded.
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