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Hot Rods Summary
1,101 words, approx. 4 pages
Americans love speed. It suffuses our culture, coloring every aspect of it from food to mail service. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that the automobile holds a hallowed space in the American myth. Nowhere is this more evident than in the...
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Hot rod Information
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Hot rods are typically American cars with large engines modified for linear speed. Nobody knows for sure the origin of the term "hot rod." One explanation is that the term is a contraction of "hot roadster," meaning a roadster that was modified for...


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Hot Rod is a 2007 film about a self-proclaimed stuntman named Rod Kimble who, after finding out that his stepfather is dying, decides that it is up to him to earn the money needed to save him. Written by Pam Brady and directed by Akiva Schaffer . Smack...


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The Stranger
Hot Rod
08/02/2007: 322 words, approx. 1 pages
Hot Rod dir. Akiva Schaffer One pet peeve of mine (in addition to the phrase "pet peeve") is when people-mostly eighth-grade girls and anyone who is stupid-use the word "random" to mean "weird." Sometimes it refers to a person ("He is totally...
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Orange County Business Journal
Hot Rod King
03/06/2006: 1,324 words, approx. 4 pages
Surf City's Foose Tweaks Rides for Stars; as Seen on TV Using a plain blue pen, Chip Foose makes swift, sweeping strokes, outlining the body of what will be a drawing of a modified 1932 Ford Roadster. The drawing is set to...
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Firefighter OK after hot rod hits helmet
7/19/2007: 285 words, approx. 1 pages
A firefighter is counting his luck after a red-hot steel rod was fired into his helmet from an exploding vehicle, local media reported Thursday.The steel rod was traveling at such speed it punched a hole through a steel door before hitting 41-year-old Gary Wright's Kevlar...
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Publishing magnate Robert Petersen dies
3/24/2007: 309 words, approx. 1 pages
Robert E. Petersen, the publishing magnate whose Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines helped shape America's car culture and who gave millions to a museum dedicated to his passion, has died. He was 80.Petersen died Friday of complications from neuroendocrine cancer at St. John's Health...
 


 

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