The real good old days of hot rodding, reliving hot rodding with over 500 photos from many rodders' albums, scrapbooks and shoeboxes.
The photos show the cars and activities at the lakes and on the streets in the period from about 1932 to 1955.
That period was probably the most important period in the history of hot rodding - it was then that the street driven hot rods evolved into race cars.
Also, rodders whose primary interest was to build nice rods for the streets were busy with cars that would be the foundation of the huge street rod popularity today.
"Authentic Hot Rods" shows the way roadsters, coupes and sedans looked as they were raced at the lakes. The styles, construction details and builder's ideas are shown. Also, many photos show what the early rods built for the streets looked like and the preferred modifications.