Art & Inspiration Mr. Hot Rod Charles Verne 1957

Long time ago I had copies of Road Race, Thunder Road, and Chicken, which have dissappeared with time and their story lines are sort of Ala Men Cia [quotations]...T-Model Tommy was also a good read and another book by Meader, Shadow In The Pines was also a pretty good story, borrowed from the local library..Thanks for posting...

 

Ah, memories of my early teens. Must have read Hot Rod, Street Rod, and The Red Car a hundred times. Crazy prices these books bring today if you can find a copy.

Thanks for posting these.

 

Guess we should of all been drag out into the road road an shot like dogs.
At 71 now my DA is missing the ducktail.
Hay thanks all foe posting,fun looking

 

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Funny how of all the reprints of HOT ROD (Henry Gregor Felson) that none of the cover art of Bud Crane's COUPE ever came out anything like what he drove.
The comics (Hot Rods & Racing Cars, etc.) did 'photo-art' that was accurate to the tune of cars being recognizable at a glance!
I remember a '50 Olds Sedanette that was featured in HRM, and the car in HR&RC comics was identical, right down to the list of mods in the story.

Bud Crane pointed the way for me...LOL

 

Remember some of those titles and read quite a few back in the day.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

Speed Cop Craig

 

Mr Hot Rod Charles Verne 1957
review

Eric Goddard (a wink to Jean-Luc?) owns a gas station and repair garage; he’s a race car enthusiast who works on hot rods and started a club, the Fender Benders, in the small NY town, Millsville, pop. 7400.

The story opens with spoiled little rich girl Jayne Barton driving Eric’s hot rod, because he’s working on her Caddy to soup it up. She’s driving with Ruthie, a cute girl, who professes her love to Jayne. Jayne is cool about it, but likes the fact that Ruthie has come out with her lesbian desires.

Jayne drag races local hot rodder Freddie because Freddie thinks Eric is in the car; Freddie loses control, crashes and dies. The cops aren’t happy and start coming down hard on the local hot rod kids, writing tickets and forcing them to get rid of their Hollywood mufflers.

Eric is about to disband the Fender Benders but Jayne, full of money, offers to pay off all member debts to Eric for repairs, as well as fund a clubhouse. She also has designs on Eric, along with Ruthie — she’s bisexual, spoiled, devious…

Next comes Ann, the widow of a famous car driver who, before dying, was putting together a “one hundred eighty degree crank” for a stock car. Like The Sucker, race cars and crank engines play a pivotal role, and ol’ Orrie uses his background as a race car magazine writer and enthusiast to put in a lot of details.

Jayne is evil with her wealth, sucking Eric in, and drugging his fiancee, Mae, into a lesbianic situation with Ruthie to take photos and smear Mae’s name, so Jayne can have Eric for herself…

Eric gets brutal down the line, anally raping Ruth to get her to tell the truth and then beating Jayne for it, but Jayne gets turned on by the physical attack and asks for more. This sort of rough sex isn’t really characteristic of Orrie Hitt, but was all over the Roger Normandie books. Likewise, a scene where Eric finds Mae doing eight guys in a gangbang because she’s lost all self-respect — she doesn’t remember how she wound up having se with Ruthie, but she thinks she may be a lesbian and is trying to counter-attack that by being sexually loose and free with any guy.

Everything winds up violent, as suspected.

Yet, this one seems to have more of Hitt’s writing in it than the Normandie ones. Not a bad book, but not Hitt’s best. A 7.5 on the Hitt Scale for an engaging tale, and for being a rare, lost title in sleazecoreville.

Good luck finding a copy, however.

 

Selections from Fourth Gear To Hell

 

I like this sample enough to track down a copy of the book !



Samples
© 2014 by Jud Pitman. All rights reserved.

In high school, a job opened up for a garage apprentice at the local Jenney station. I applied and was hired by the owner, Laurie Lingley. He was a grand fellow, having a sense of humor. One day Laurie came up and asked me, “Son, why don’t you go get us six-feet of shoreline and a bucket of steam.” The expression on my face entertained the shop men in gales of laughter. Starting out, I was assigned to the lowest form of work to be done. This way, as I made progress the evidence would confirm. If you could deal with issues as they arose, it meant you were tested. You’d prove your mettle.

A true service station of old, Lingley’s Jenney sold gas, with free tire inflation. On Saturdays cars would line up as Laurie took care of smaller mechanical repairs for motorists. Every Monday at 9 a.m., Mrs. Clarke would stop in her resplendent 1960 Imperial. Pulling up to the gas pump, she would wait for an attendant to come out. Word would whisper through the shop, “Mrs. Clarke, out front.” The signal prompted Laurie’s younger brother Jimmy to move quickly—he’d open a can of lighter fluid, squirt the bottom of the restroom door—and toss a lit match.

The results would dislodge his brother Laurie, still inside. Laurie would fling the door open, pants not fully raised, hurling “Geessuss!” in general, and at his brother Jimmy in particular. No doubt, Mrs. Clarke was most impressed as she waited for her “boys” to attend to her.
Contents
Copyright 2014 by Jud Pitman

Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v

Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi

Chapters

1. Friends and Dogfights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. The Art of Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3. Stingrays Conceived. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

4. On Meeting an Artist–Mystic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..48

5. Hands, Sketching, and Quotidian Mysteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

6. A Shocking Development, Edison Scissorhands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

7. Tail Fins in Flames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

8. Hold Up!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

9. Aboard the Pride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

10. A Fine Mess: 4-Speed Muncie Transmission Rebuild. . . . . . . . . .97

11. R. Buckminster Fuller & Units of Measure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

12. Paradox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

13. Space-Time, Karmic Convergences, Levels of Thought. . . . . . . 113

14. A Close Shave, Blood Drawn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

15. Compensation—A Surfeit of Misappropriations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

16. Qualities of One’s Practice:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

17. Design Receptivity & Parallels in Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

18. A Machine’s Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

19. Those Who Ride Our Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

20. Salted Extrusions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

21. Entropy, Entropy, We All Fall Down. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

22. Numerical Interludes, Reasonable Approximations. . . . . . . . . . .162

23. What Has 6 Wheels and Crawls? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

24. Collaboration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

25. An Appreciation Manifesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182

Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187




Meanwhile, I began to imagine how I might pick from different cars, the pieces to make up a car of my own. A search in our school library yielded an April 1957 issue of Life magazine, with the story of hot rod fever thensweeping the country. Thirteen years had passed since the Life photo was taken of Norm Grabowski and a friend in his resplendent Caddy-powered T-Bucket.

A seminal hot rod this was, as they chowed down hamburgers at a California drive-in. The picture left an indelible impression upon my mind. Soon I was sketching, inspired by magazines titled Rod & Custom, Hot Rod, and Car Craft. Within a year as luck came along, I found a Model A 2-door sedan out in a field…