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...them "peanut wagons," "crocks" or "goats." A hot rod is different. "The only way I can define one," said one Los Angeles youngster, "is that it's something with four wheels that's got something inside." The hot rod rolls out of a backyard garage a bumperless, fenderless, hoodless, roofless, uncomfortable concoction which runs so fast its driver must chug and jerk through town in low or second gear to stay under the speed limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Gangway! | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...that it cost him his chance of winning the race; besides, his own car was limping and had to be towed, thus violating one of the rules. One day last week, with 100,000 citizens of Caracas anxiously waiting at the finish line of the Gran Premio, a battered, fenderless Chevie coupe rolled down the Avenida San Martin. Out stepped Domingo Marimón, the undertaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Undertaker Wins | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...member of the University is eligible to enter. Two and five-minute handicaps, representing approximately half and full mile head starts, will be awarded cyclists on the basis of equipment and proven ability. Only pure racing bicycles, fenderless, aerodynamically efficient machines, will start from scratch. Entrants should sign up on the Outing Club bulletin board in Sover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Cyclist Who Makes Wellesley Sunday Gets Succulent Reception | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

Public Service trolleys had their front scoops or fenders wired up to prevent the derailing of cars from obstacles placed on the tracks by strikers. A three-year-old girl was ground to death under a fenderless trolley. Strikers dug up a city ordinance requiring fenders in position, caused the arrest of Herbert B. Flowers, president of Public Service, 27 non-union motormen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Blood in New Orleans | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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