The State of American Hot Rodding

David Lawrence Miller taught at SUNY at Cortland for 30 years. He has completed two Hot Rod Power Tours, participated in Street Rodder Road tours, earned two “Long Distance” awards at National Car Shows and is a member of the 7 Valley Street Rods car club in Cortland, New York.

Table of Contents


Author’s Note

Part One: The Run

 1. Introduction: Hot Rodding as Defiance of the Contemporary

 2. My Credentials: The Dismantled Omnibus

 3. My ’58 Build Story, or How I was Adopted by a Chevy Apache Behind a South Dakota Barn

 4. “Drive What You Build” Lessons

Part Two: The Run

 5. Introduction to the Interviews

 6. Bobby Alloway (Louisville, TN)

 7. Bo Huff (Sunnyside, UT)

 8. George Ross (Thompson’s Station, TN)

 9. Lee Osborne (Penn Yan, NY)

10. Darryl Starbird (Afton, OK)

11. Brylen Brajkovich (Jonestown, PA)

12. John Davis (Alamosa, CO)

13. Bob Austin (Rochester, NY)

14. Rick Treworgy (Punta Gorda, FL)

15. Rod Petty (Moab, UT)

16. George Roetman (Vermillion, SD)

17. Rick Love (San Antonio, TX)

18.  Walt Johnson (Thorntown, IN) and Ken Holdaway (Fairview Heights, IL)

19. Jerry Dixey (Austintown, OH)

20. Gene Winfield (Mojave, CA)

Part Three: The Run Down

21. The Road Ahead: Higher Gas Prices vs. America’s Love Affair with Man Toys

22. The Takeaway: Thoughts on the Future of Hot Rodding

23. Street Rodding 2.0: How We Roll Forward

24. Final Thoughts

25. At the End, 2017

Chapter Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index