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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rodders look with disdain on the lowly jalopies, call 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...
...racers) was just an impromptu "drag race," a hell-raising skirmish good for scaring the citizenry and testing the latest motor and fuel adjustments. The real hot rodders meet on weekends at the hard-packed sandy stretches in the dry lake beds of El Mirage, 106 miles northeast of Los Angeles. There, under careful racing conditions, hot-rod clubs known as the "Dragons," the "Cranks" or the "Gents" skim over the sand at speeds of 100 to 180 m.p.h...
...Los Angeles, which has managed to survive a cemetery with a floodlighted duck pond, Mickey Cohen and the tribal rites of Hollywood, seemed to be taking the hot rods in stride. The smartest thing to do was keep off the streets after dark...
...concrete court at the Los Angeles Tennis Club this week, 21-year-old Pancho Gonzales faced Ted Schroeder for the last time. With less difficulty than he had in the finals of the National Singles at Forest Hills, Amateur Champion Gonzales dusted off his old enemy (6-3, 9-11, 8-6, 6-4) to win the Pacific Southwest Championship. Then he hopped a plane for Manhattan...
...Ardmore, Pa., for the first time in the history of the national women's amateur golf championship, a 15-year-old girl stroked her way into the semifinals. Comely Marlene Bauer of Los Angeles, winner of the National Girl's Championship last month (TIME, Aug. 29), had oldtimers recalling the cool poise of the youthful Bobby Jones (who played in his first Nationals at 14). But after getting to the semifinal round, Marlene's firm grip slipped; on the second hole, she took seven strokes in her match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach...