Art of the Hot Rod - Softcover

Gross, Ken; Harholdt, Peter

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760343004 ISBN 13: 9780760343005

Publisher: Motorbooks, 2012

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The best hot rods are art on four wheels, and this book, a collection of studio photography of the cars produced by the world's top hotrod builders, is nothing less than a gallery of the best of American hot rodding. Profiling top builders like Pete Chaponris, Roy Brizio, Vern Tarxel, Troy Trepanier, and 15 others and featuring studio portraits of their most outstanding custom creations, this book celebrates the uniquely American marriage of mechanical know-how to an inspired sense of style and design. Built from the ground up, pieced together from salvaged parts, rebuilt with classic looks and futuristic technology-these are automotive works of art, as powerful on the page as they are on the street. Through the stunning portraiture of master photographer Peter Harholdt, Art of the Hot Rod captures these magnificent creations as never seen before.

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This book can be a real problem you pick it up for a quick thumb through and the next thing you know, you ve lost an hour. Yes, it would be easy to dismiss this as a coffee-table book, but Art of the Hot Rod is so much more than that given its sheer bulk it also represents very good value. Harholdt s pictures are simply sublime and the choice of rods is absolutely spot-on from the classic 32 Ford Roadster to Sixties Thunderbirds the book s contents mixes the new with the well-known like So-Cal s 1951 Belly Tank racer. The only problem we found is that the pictures are so fantastically distracting that it s actually hard to concentrate on the black squiggly written stuff but if you make the effort, you ll find it very informative. Literally inspiring literally. --Dep-O Magazine dot ;This book gives readers the opportunity to step inside the private world of 22 of the top hot rod builders in a way that s never been done. They include: Bobby Alloway, Roy Brizio, Pete Chapouris, Dave Crouse, Zane Cullen, Rick Dore, Steve Frisbie, Richard Graves, Alan Johnson, the Kennedy brothers, Barry Lobeck, Donn Lowe, Jim Lowrey, Jr., Steve Moal, Don Orosco, Ken 'POSIES' Fenical, Keith Cornell and Ken Schmidt ('Rolling Bones'), Dave Simard, Vern Tardel and Troy Trepanier--streetrodding dot com-- We get quite a few books to review at DRCReview dotcom and many are stock-piled for inclusion over the coming months. However, one title called Art of the HOT ROD by Ken Gross, has jumped the queue. Why? You might ask. Well the answer is because this publication stands head and shoulders above many other titles we ve seen of late. The quality of photographs is superb, the editorial content entertaining and to the point and this book will be of huge interest to all hot rodders, whether you like painted or unpainted cars. If I told you this publication is more like a hardback, thicker version of The Rodders Journal then this wouldn t be too far from the truth. This is a quality publication with great design, creative use of images, written by a hot rodder for hot rodders.There are chapters (mainly pictorial) devoted to all of the established builders, such as Bobby Alloway, Troy Trepanier, Barry Lobeck, Rick Dore, Steve Moal, Roy Brizio, Rolling Bones and many, many others with stunning photographs throughout from established studio photographer, Peter Harholdt --Drag Rod and Classics dot com;Excellent, good-value tome. --Evening Standard&;This book gives readers the opportunity to step inside the private world of 22 of the top hot rod builders in a way that s never been done. They include: Bobby Alloway, Roy Brizio, Pete Chapouris, Dave Crouse, Zane Cullen, Rick Dore, Steve Frisbie, Richard Graves, Alan Johnson, the Kennedy brothers, Barry Lobeck, Donn Lowe, Jim Lowrey, Jr., Steve Moal, Don Orosco, Ken 'POSIES' Fenical, Keith Cornell and Ken Schmidt ('Rolling Bones'), Dave Simard, Vern Tardel and Troy Trepa --Drag Rod and Classics dot com --...a real coffee-table tome, and one that any Hot Rodder will find endlessly fascinating, just for the phootgraphs alone --Somerset County Gazette;This book profiles 20 of today's preeminent hot-rod builders, with gorgeous photographs of their work. the authro is Ken Gross, AutoWeek contributor and former director of the Petersen Museum, and his apssion comes through on every page. Photos by Peter Hardholdt, foreward by So-Cal Speed Shop founder alex Xydias. --AutoWeek, December, 2008;So pickled sharks, a grubby bed amd a pile of bricks are art? What about hot rods? They're an almost uniquey American passion and the aim here, too, is all about making a staement. In the US they take the busines very seriously indeed, often heavily modifying early cars mechanically and visually, to the highest standards, untill they stand out from the crowds. Peter Hardholt's photogarphy is sublime! -- -- --London Evening Standard --Bolton News, March, 2009

From the Back Cover:

The drive to rebuild, modify, and improve--to make something faster, lighter, and more eye-catching—is a trait ingrained in many car enthusiasts. Whether the end game is speed, beauty, uniqueness, or some special combination of all three, hot rods have always offered the perfect medium.

Part mechanical sculpture, part show car, and part speed machine, the hot rods presented in Art of the Hot Rod show the past, present, and future of fabrication, custom painting, and craftsmanship. With the help of author and hot rodder Ken Gross, twenty of today’s top builders explain their love of hot rodding, the philosophy they bring to their craft, and exhibit the best of their work in the gorgeous photography of Peter Harholdt.

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