The best Hot Rod cars are Art on four wheels, and this book is nothing less than a gallery of the best Hot Rods, profiling the machines in stunning color, top builders with studio portraits of their work, and commentary on their most outstanding custom creations. This book celebrates the unique marriage of mechanical know-how and inspired sense of design and style. Built from the ground up, pieced together from salvaged parts, rebuilt with classic looks and futuristic technology - these are racing cars as works of art, as powerful and compelling on the page as they are on the street and racetrack!

About the Author

Ken Gross is now executive director of the Petersen Automotive Museum, following years of enthusiasm for Hot Rods. He writes regularly for Rodd Report, Rodder's Journal, Road and Track, Automotive Magazine.

Reviews

Motortrend.com
Oh, you want this book. You'll drool over this book. Get this book. Written by pal Ken Gross, an auto-journalism veteran who can recite chapter and verse on nearly everything that's ever worn wheels, Art of the Hot Rod (240 pages, hardbound) is a gorgeously produced, large-format feast that pays tribute to the work of twenty of today's most inventive and talented hot-rod craftsmen. As your eyes gaze over the lavish images by renowned photographer Peter Harholdt, just try to find a speck of dust on any of the beautiful machines profiled within. This is auto creativity at its zenith, sculpture on rubber. After you've let this weighty tome enhance your coffee table for a while, file it in your library in the section reserved for "Landmarks of Western Art." Legendarycollectorcars.com The closest thing I can compare it to is when I was a teenager with raging hormones and saw my first copy of Playboy. I knew there were some very intriguing stories inside but I couldn't st