What got you involved..

[kapri]

...with rodding ?

[crumble]

...with rodding ?Local hot rodders.

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[mygasser]

Trevor cook, cookie to anyone who knows him. You've probably seen him at shows, he's Yankee doodles the American clothing stall along with his wife Lesley. I've known him since I was about 16, 39 years now :eek:.
I was into bikes until Trevor started working for my dad lorry driving and it's gone pear shaped ever since :lol:
Neil.

[Rich G]

Used to build model car kits when I was a kid in South Africa. Dad bought me a 1:24 kit of the Stone, Woods & Cook Willy's gasser, he even got the correct colour paint and sprayed the body for me. Then my best mate's older brother gave me a pile of his Hot Rod magazines (this was 1968) - hooked for life!

[Graham Thompson]

Similar to the previous response. I had a plastic Airfix model of a Mustang and one of the build options was a drag racer. I didn't know what it was at the time (in around1966) but I thought it looked cool. A while later a friend of a friend had piles of Hot Rod magazines in his shed and I was hooked.

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[jaymin]

had a mate few years older than me started to go to Chelsea with him and my bro, the he brought this crap little stock pop....so then a moggy arrived, out came the disc cutter.... and the next 34yrs seems to be much the same.....

made some good friends along the way so far...

[Knowledge]

I was seriously into bikes as a teenager and one day saw a copy of Custom Car next to my usual mags (bike and superbike), Revenge was featured as a build up and I was hooked, because some rods are like 4 wheeled bikes I guess.


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[scottie]

Graffiti / Hot Rod and Custom mag

[randrhotrodimports]

Tangerine Dream Ford Pop in the car park at Santapod when i was 14, by 16 i had built my own V6 powered pop 1978

[martin]

Went to an airshow with my Dad when I was a nipper, & there was a hot rod show on. Told him I like these cars, so on Monday when he came home from work, he'd bought me a copy of Custom Car...& the car on the cover, a Datson 260Z was at the show.....That did it for me....no looking back for over 40 years.

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[dw123]

'Dad, what's a Little Deuce Coupe?', and the family summer holidays to Sweden, oh yes!!

[Willys coop v8]

Always built model cars as a kid, scalextric etc, then saw a ww2 jeep and a blue flake beach buggy as a 13-14 year old, one day got a copy of hot car magazine and bloke down the road had a yank, a Chevy chevelle I think and I was hooked!!!

[69Mustang]

When i was 10 years old on family holiday , We stopped at a garage for fuel , Mum & Dad bought me & my sister a magazine each to keep us quite on the journey . Hot car mag for me , Jackie mag for my sister . That really set my whole life of working on cars , Left school trained as a mechanic , Built a kit car at 17 . Then custom carpi , built a 3100 for that , Going to shows /meets saw a 69 mustang , so sold the carpi , Bought 69 mustang , restored it & still have it 25 years on + 3 other American cars . Great scene to be in very social friendly . Gets us out a lot . Kev

[MisteR Tee]

In 1958/9 a school friend brought a copy of Hot Rod into school which got me hooked, then I saw the Spa Engineering customised pickup driving around near me, found out where they were (how I don't remember) met John Bennett (founder of SPR) & joined the BHRA in 1963. Never been the same since!!! :thumbsup2:

[v8pop]

Santapod and Hot Rod & Custom Car.

Cheers. Tim W.

[Brizey]

In the early 1950s I used to `help` my dad whenever he was in the garage working on his cars which gave me an interest in cars and since 1956, (I was 6) I`ve enjoyed making models starting with Airfix kits and by the time I was eight I had graduated to Kiel Kraft flying models. In 1962 during a visit to my local model shop, `Beezleys` in Twickenham, I noticed a kit of the newly released Monogram `Red Chariot` `30 Phaeton Hot Rod which I bought...that was it, I was hooked on Hot Rodding!...

[martin]

Loved Beazleys in Heath Road.
In the early 1950s I used to `help` my dad whenever he was in the garage working on his cars which gave me an interest in cars and since 1956, (I was 6) I`ve enjoyed making models starting with Airfix kits and by the time I was eight I had graduated to Kiel Kraft flying models. In 1962 during a visit to my local model shop, `Beezleys` in Twickenham, I noticed a kit of the newly released Monogram `Red Chariot` `30 Phaeton Hot Rod which I bought...that was it, I was hooked on Hot Rodding!...

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[Happydaze]

Was into cars from... probably birth! Did the Corgis, Dinkys, Matchbox, Scalextrix as I'm sure we all did, then, after a flirtation with Airfix aircraft I came upon a US kit, so that'd be Revell or Monagram (?), '63 or thereabouts Corvette Coupe which had the bits to build it stock or modified. I liked the modified (bit of Googling suggests it was a '64 MPC kit that had the stock or competition options) Not sure what happened thereafter until I was about 11 or so when a magazine called Custom Car appeared at the newsagents. I think I missed the first couple of issues but I've been downhill ever since!

Chris

[Brizey]

Loved Beazleys in Heath Road.

Me too Mart`, I spent a lot of my pennies in there and also the model shop on top of the railway bridge in Teddington!...

[Jumpin Jim]

As a kid, dad worked at Matchbox so I had hundreds of cars. Early teen Saw/heard a black 32 3 window in Fulham, neighbour bought a big block 60s Mopar, word on the street drew me to the local Chelsea Cruise @ 1975 ish - never missed one for a decade. Chicks have since tried to delete the need but it's in the soul, and the chicks have gone. Lol

[martin]

I remember that shop as well...happy days.
Me too Mart`, I spent a lot of my pennies in there and also the model shop on top of the railway bridge in Teddington!...

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[Paul B]

I was seriously into bikes as a teenager and one day saw a copy of Custom Car next to my usual mags (bike and superbike), Revenge was featured as a build up and I was hooked, because some rods are like 4 wheeled bikes I guess.



Exactly the last same as me, into bikes, but noticed some hot rod magazines on the shelf too, and the rest is history... :)

[Pete Rodder]

I bought my first Hot Rod magazine at the local railway station news stand back in 1960 when I was 10 years old.Then cycled to Blackbushe airport in 1964 and climbed over the fence to see the Dragfest. I've been a Hot fodder ever since. Attended Bonneville Speedweek in 2008. Currently building a 29 Model A pickup.

[Manxter]

Scalextric, followed by Tony Bostok's Opus on the cover of Hot Car mag when I was 12 (still got the mag) followed by a GP Beachbuggy again in Hot Car the following year. I also got taken to Dragfest at RAF Woodvale, Southport in '69 and saw the John Woolfe Scimitar running. Now that did have a killer 'stance'.

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[dragfest]

Drag Fest at Woodvale 1965; Hot Rod mags; Revell Scarlet Screamer/ Bantam Bomber.

[dragfest]

I was there at Woodvale in 1969; saw Dennis Priddle in the Scimitar; Malibu Express ; and Clive Skilton in the Allard Skilton front engine rail.

[Manxter]

There was a small drag meet at Aintree in around 74 running 1/8 mile down the main straight. Priddle brought the black (Hillman) Avenger funny car. He fired it up and I nearly died of nitro fumes!

[Manxter]

Drag Fest at Woodvale 1965; Hot Rod mags; Revell Scarlet Screamer/ Bantam Bomber.

I do believe we've met Dragfest!

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[Hotroddeuce]

My elder brother is to blame I guess.... back around 1962 he started buying HotRod magazine.He is five years older than me but we shared a bedroom and pictures of Hotrods were on the walls. He also built Monaghan and Revill HotRod kits that he detailed to death, ht leads, scalpel cut the doors open and made little hinges, needle cord for tuck n roll, etc and displayed them in a model
garage made from a “ Bako” building kit similarly detailed with balsa wood benches and little posters and stickers on the walls, spares laid around etc.. the crowning glory was a battery operated light inside. At night when lit up I used to stand and stare for ages... one of my favourites was a 40 coupe and I always wanted one eventually I have owned two, a Standard and a Deluxe.
Our Dinky and Corgis all got the “
treatment”, trucks got black and yellow striped bumpers and the complementary light covering in dust to make them more realistic.The cars got lowered by putting broken match sticks under the little suspension rods, white wall tyres were done by putting pump whitener on a piece of paper and touching the tyres onto this..... one I remember particularity is a 59 Impala fire chiefs car that I got when I was in hospital... I rubbed all the paint off with a matchbox and nail
file, and painted it with mums cherry red nail
varnish with whitewalls and lowered.
He came back
from the Dragfest with momentous including some water slide Mooneyes decals, these adorned our bedroom mirror and were still
there when I left home in my twenties
We are both still active with cars, Mick has probably the nicest 55 in the country and I still
play with the old ****. It more than a hobby and consumes most of my day to day thinking... on the look out for another old Ford at the moment as just sold a 36 Cabriolet.

[mikey d]

OK, I'll be honest, it was a scantily clad young lady (on the cover of Custom Car magazine) that started it all for me in the early 1970's.. :whistle:

[dragfest]

Hi Manxter, that will be me! Thanks for the photo of the "A". I was at the Aintree meet I think- I remember Clive Skilton's rear engine funny car .

[john56]

Hot Car , Custom Car, and the show at Bingley hall in Brum all helped.