The hopped-up 1930 Ford Model A he drives is a “gow job,” a hot rod from before the term “hot rod” was coined: a car built almost exclusively with 1930s mechanical components, yet capable ...

The essence of hot rodding has, from the get-go ... leading to the term "stripped-down gow job." Influenced by Ford's feather-light racers, the youth of the "Roaring '20s" began putting the ...

Who in the hot rod world could we get ahold of to build ... The guys who hung out at the speed shops before World War II called them gow jobs and hot irons. But we can pinpoint when another ...

In the genesis of hot rodding, the cars weren’t called hot rods, they were called gow jobs or soup jobs. Isky had heard around town that he needed to go to the Muroc lake bed, and he tinkered ...

Hardcore rodding has evolved to an amazing point in the past decade where the amount of creativity infused into primered hot rods has paved ... up fast with wicked gow jobs and cool customs ...

Defined, usually, by their retro-look covering the state-of-the-art mechanics and engineering, hot rods have become a trademark in almost every tuner's line-up. What not all of us know is that hot ...

“Hot Rods are my passion, but the graphic arts are my craft,” said Utah painter Gene Chambers of Studio-66 Hot Rod Art, whose work is inspired by the custom car culture of the 1950s and ’60s.