Thus, in 1930 — long before hot rodding went mainstream after World War II — a hopped-up car was a gow job. Roughly 20 years later, automotive enthusiasts would coin the word “hot rod.” ...

The small-block Chevy, introduced by the Bow-Tie brigade in 1955, eventually ended hot rodding's 23-year love affair with the flathead. And two, as we know, are better than one. See All 12 Photos ...

"Hop-ups, soup-ups, gow jobs; yeah, that's what we called them. We didn't have the name hot rod yet." "Hot rod" seems to have come into use after World War II. It caught on fast, but not in a good ...

Back in the late '30s-early '40s, the bulked-up cars were called gow-jobs or soup-ups. The accepted definition of the "hot rod" term is that it stands for 'hot roadster" . 4 Cylinder ...

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 ...