Word: rodder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Petersen & Co. now have four numbers, including one about a motorized cowboy ("Instead of prodding with his spurs, he mashes on the gas"). But Lyricist Medley is still especially fond of Saturday Night Drag because it has a moral: "This hot-rodder gets caught, catch it? So maybe kids listenin' to the record don't go out and race except at a track. Catch...
...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
...rodders soon took to the textbook-like stories, pictures of engine heads, and cutaway diagrams of new racers which floored ordinary readers. There were how-to-do-it hints from the hot-rodder who hit 120 m.p.h. after "pouring nitrated alky through three 975"; from another whose racing engine "is a Model B Ford, bored .060-inch oversize with Jahns pistons, Pontiac rods and a drilled crankshaft...