HOT ROD Mavericks: The Builders, Racers, and Rebels Who Revolutionized Hot Rodding

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Tony Thacker

HOT ROD Mavericks

The Builders, Racers, and Rebels Who Revolutionized Hot Rodding

Tony Thacker

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English

Motorbooks
27 March 2025

Social & cultural history; Motor cars: general interest; Car racing

Produced in cooperation with HOT ROD magazine, HOT ROD Mavericks takes you on a rollicking look back on more than a century of trailblazers, risk-takers, hell-raisers, and forward-thinkers.

No aspect of automobile culture embodies the DIY spirit like hot rodding. From prewar pressed steel and milled four-bangers to modern machined billet and 800-hp behemoths, the story of hot rodding has been the story of can-do iconoclasts who did for themselves what Detroit wouldn't do for them. Longtime hot rod and custom car historian Tony Thacker crafts an illustrated history that leaves no camshaft unturned.

Just some of the 50-plus movers and shakers profiled are:

Pioneers of the speed equipment industry like Barney Navarro, Ed ""Isky"" Iskendarian, and Vic EdelbrockPostwar racers and builders Alex Xydias, Mickey Thompson, and Ak MillerQuarter-mile dragstrip heroes such as ""TV"" Tommy Ivo, ""Big Daddy"" Don Garlits, and Shirley ""Cha-Cha"" MuldowneyKustom kulture icons Dean Jeffries, Ed ""Big Daddy"" Roth, Von Dutch, Sam and George Barris, and Gene Winfield Thacker also includes latter-day innovators who kept hot rodding a going concern, like Pete & Jake, Boyd Coddington, and Chip Foose. HOT ROD Mavericks is accompanied by exceptional images sourced from Motor Trend Group's archives at The Petersen Automotive Museum.

Celebrate the rebels who revolutionized hot rodding with this authoritative and visually engaging history.

By: Tony Thacker
Imprint: Motorbooks
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 276mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1.229kg
ISBN: 9780760387344
ISBN 10: 0760387346
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 27 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tony Thacker is the former executive director of the Wally Parks National Hot Rod Association Museum and the author and co-author of several previous books on hot rods and customs, including Hot Rods by Ed ""Big Daddy"" Roth and SO-CAL Speed Shop. He lives in Southern California.

Reviews for HOT ROD Mavericks: The Builders, Racers, and Rebels Who Revolutionized Hot Rodding

""It is not often that one manages to come across a book that is a genuine pleasure. Tony Thacker manages to provide just such a book with Hot Rod Mavericks: The Builders, Racers, and Rebels Who Revolutionized Hot Rodding. Highly recommended."" * Speedreaders.info *