"Best Hot Rods" circa 1953

As some of you guys know, I have a penchant for scanning books.. Old books that are filled with automotive history. Some of you really dug my thread over the Hot Rod Yearbooks from 1965 and 1966. While there were subjects in those books that were OT, there were still plenty of rides in there that fit right in here. Well, mainly because they were from 1965.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=673240

However.. This book has absolutely nothing OT in it. It's from 1953. There are some great looking rides as well as history.

Enjoy.

 

ohh man this is going to be great!

 

Cool - Thanks

 

Very very cool!

 

Very cool indeed.

 

Just wait.. The next part is my favorite of the bunch.

 

Cool!

 

Come on Matt, scan faster!!!

This stuff is so cool. Was it in the college library as well?

 

I've already scanned them all.. And uploaded them all to Photobucket. I'm just spreading them out throughout the day.

And yep! In my college library. They wouldn't even let me buy it off them.

 

Here's some to hold you over, Speedy Canuck..

 

Can't wait. Thanks for uploading this!

 

Wow, great scans. Thanks!

After seeing Mr. Jaderquist behind the wheel of his roadster, I no longer feel too square to own one:



I never could get into the greaser thing.

 

I've thought the same thing myself! An idea I had was to show up at one of the bigger trad rod shows in my A roadster dressed up as a '60's church-goer. Sweater over button-up shirt, pants, penny loafers or something to that effect..

"Howdy, pal!"

 

With the beard, too???

 

Heh, in a now closed thread, I actually proposed something similar.

But I digress...

It is interesting to see two column-shifted cars right at the outset. Makes you wonder how popular they actually were.

 

I cut it off.. But give me 4 months and I'll be right back where I was.

Or I could just grow a 'stache.

 

Man O' Man those three chopped deuce 3-window coupes were just KILLER !!!!
Roger's Dodger- Greeley's Grinder and Kee's Knees Thanks

 

I thought the same when I saw those for myself.. I haven't tried driving a column shifted car so I can't say whether I like driving them or not.

 

Meths Meteor - post 13 - what a name. It didn't age well at all.

 

It's a blast. I have to imagine that before floor shifters came back into vogue in the mid-1950s that the column shift was the more modern choice - and may actually have been a faster shift.

 

Who needs to shift faster when I have this?

 

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