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"THE COOL HOT ROD" 1950s HOT ROD CULTURE in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MODEL A ROADSTER 87114

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4 жыл бұрын

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This short drama film from 1953, produced by Sid Davis and winner of the Trend Publications Award, gives viewers a look at the hot rod or drag racing culture. The film revolves around a teenager, Bill Bower, who moves to California and learns how safety and education have been integrated into the hot rod scene. The film opens with Bill driving his 1928-9 Ford Model A Roadster down a street in what is presumably Inglewood, CA. Cars pull in to park at a high school (01:28). Bill parks his roadster and climbs out of the car and walks into school. A group of boys sit around at lunch. Bill pulls his roadster out of the parking lot and speeds off (03:12). He is then pulled over by a police car. Bill sits at a school court, presided over by the school’s safety officer, Jim Daniels. The film reviews some of the driving fatality statistics following World War II, then cuts to a flashback of a high school boy, Tom, who died racing his hot rod. Tom and another teenager work on his car’s engine (06:40). Tom races his car, a 1952 Mercury, down a street against a train and tries to pass in front of the train but crashes. Members of the Knights Hot Rod Club perform a safety inspection on a car (09:35). Jim Daniels brings a car to the boys in the club to inspect. Mr. Hanks (Tom’s dad) and Officer Daniels examine an airstrip to use for drag racing (11:30). Viewers see a car speed down the runway during a time trial. Two boys change a flat tire (12:30). Footage shows students in a safe driving course. Famed racer Ralph DePalma speaks to the students in the safe driving course (13:28). People weigh and classify a dragster and then perform a safety inspection on it (14:44). A toddler drives a toy car at the dragstrip (15:20). Footage shows young men and women working on their cars at the dragstrip, including the dragster named the Bean Bandit (15:32), which holds the speed record for the dragstrip. The film shows the hot rods racing on the dragstrip (16:05). High school kids sit in the stands and watch the races. Bill drives his car but doesn’t set a new speed record. He then drags against another driver and is quickly left behind (18:17). A 1925 Star drives past Bill as he stands on the side of the road with his broken-down car (19:15). The film then shows him standing next to a driver’s education car; he then takes the driving course in a large vacant parking lot. A girl gives the Bill his hot rod club membership card (20:22). He watches as the rest of the club examines his engine. Bill works at a Mobilgas gas station pumping gas. Bill is shown working on his car (22:02), and then receiving a trophy for a reliability run. DePalma introduces Bill to other drivers at the Indianapolis 500 (23:10); the film shows famous racers like Manny Ayala, Harry Hart, Bob Estes and driver Don Freeland, Duke Nalon, Roger Ward, and Indy Speedway President Wilbur Shaw. The film then shows footage from the Indianapolis 500 (24:08). Bill and DePalma sit in the stands and watch the race. The film concludes with shots of Bill driving his car down a street (24:47), covers of Hot Rod Magazine, articles about student hot rod clubs, footage of 1950s cars, and a panoramic shot of the airstrip during a drag race.
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@creepingjesus5106
@creepingjesus5106 4 жыл бұрын
In the sequel, Billy accepts that the only way is to put a much bigger engine in it.
@almostfm
@almostfm 4 жыл бұрын
Repeat after me: There is no replacement for displacement.
@20alphabet
@20alphabet 4 жыл бұрын
This film won an award for accuracy, but we all know awards are meaningless. This film is a good example of that. It begins with the ludicrous statement that hot rodding began after WWII. But the fact is many were souping up their Model A Fords a decade before the war began.
@axipixel5811
@axipixel5811 4 жыл бұрын
Model A not so much, people were souping up mostly Studebaker Big Sixes throughout the 20s before Ford released the flathead in 1932. It's sad history's forgotten about it, but they did some impressive stuff for internal combustion being in its infancy.
@tombob671
@tombob671 10 ай бұрын
And the " how jobs" and Model T
@ClayLoomis1958
@ClayLoomis1958 4 жыл бұрын
"I was left so far back I could have been driving Jack Benny's Maxwell." That's the way to rope the kids in. Use a hip, modern reference that they'll all understand.
@lekmirn.hintern8132
@lekmirn.hintern8132 4 жыл бұрын
In the '50's, when this was made, he was one of the biggest stars on TV. Now do you understand?
@ClayLoomis1958
@ClayLoomis1958 4 жыл бұрын
@@lekmirn.hintern8132 But he was already over 50 years old when his show was on. Kids didn't care about him. He was a huge star for the same reason Milton Berle and Lucille Ball were big stars. Because they had no competition. TV was new, a lot of people were only getting 2 or 3 channels, and a lot of it was just crap. You look back at any of those Uncle Milty clips and you can see it - they really aren't genius, or even very funny. Benny was much the same. Those old pregnant pauses he uses don't hold up so well today.
@lekmirn.hintern8132
@lekmirn.hintern8132 4 жыл бұрын
@@ClayLoomis1958 Benny's stardom is actually due to his great success on radio. Everything he did played better on radio than on TV. Had he just started with TV, I don't think he'd have been nearly as successful... much of his TV audience was probably people who followed him from radio. Listen to his radio stuff and you'll see what I mean -- especially if you compare some of the ones he did in both mediums, like 'Jack visits his vault'. Ten times funnier on radio.
@lekmirn.hintern8132
@lekmirn.hintern8132 4 жыл бұрын
BTW, most television was always crap. Including now. The exceptions are what we remember. And though I agree with you re Berle and Lucy, there was also some good TV comedy in the '50's: THE HONEYMOONERS, a lot of the Sid Caesar stuff, Burns and Allen, Ernie Kovacs...
@danielbuckner2167
@danielbuckner2167 2 жыл бұрын
@@ClayLoomis1958 uhhh... duh. That was the point, he didn't feel cool by being stuck on the side of the road while a Star passed him hence the Maxwell reference. You're welcome.
@sarjim4381
@sarjim4381 4 жыл бұрын
Officer Jim Daniels and his pearl handle .38. Those were the days.
@vinnydaq13
@vinnydaq13 4 жыл бұрын
Sar Jim More likely ivory handled - pearl handles are too slippery.
@sarjim4381
@sarjim4381 4 жыл бұрын
@@vinnydaq13 Pearl and ivory grips for revolvers were popular right to the end of revolvers in police work.
@vinnydaq13
@vinnydaq13 4 жыл бұрын
@@sarjim4381 My preference would be rubber grips - much better grip if your palms get sweaty ( or bloody! ).
@sarjim4381
@sarjim4381 4 жыл бұрын
@@vinnydaq13 Yes, and I'll take checkered wood grips. We're all different.
@markwilliams5606
@markwilliams5606 2 жыл бұрын
This wants me to go for a ride in my Hot Rod Lincoln! Lol🇺🇸🏁💪
@tommccallan8802
@tommccallan8802 Жыл бұрын
That's Pomona dragsstrip "NEW" before the grandstands were built ( look how fresh and black the asphalt is) look at the hills at the end of the strip and compare the hills today...SAME
@thetreblerebel
@thetreblerebel 4 жыл бұрын
A town full of sleepwalkers
@LawrenceRoss1906
@LawrenceRoss1906 4 жыл бұрын
Ha! I'm from Inglewood, and I think this was filmed at Morningside High.
@tommccallan8802
@tommccallan8802 Жыл бұрын
My dad went to pomona h.s. grad. In 50 he talked about running track at Morningside
@72polara
@72polara 4 жыл бұрын
Now we have rich old ladies driving in modern electric heaps....
@robertvilliard3402
@robertvilliard3402 2 жыл бұрын
Billy realized his hot rod got him laid 😉 alot 👍🏁
@DouglasUrantia
@DouglasUrantia 4 жыл бұрын
At least hot rod boy wasn't foolin around with some pervert at the park....as in ''Boys Beware''.
@tom7601
@tom7601 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@nunyabizness9955
@nunyabizness9955 Жыл бұрын
Makes me wanna start my own hot rod club called The Death Traps. You can only join The Death Traps if you have violations for reckless driving, drink driving, and speeding.
@nunyabizness9955
@nunyabizness9955 Жыл бұрын
Violations for lewd behaviour while driving also a plus.
@LawrenceRoss1906
@LawrenceRoss1906 4 жыл бұрын
And then Billy put an LS in his hot rod.
@vinnydaq13
@vinnydaq13 4 жыл бұрын
Lawrence Ross LS swap for the WIN, BAYBEE !!
@MrGrace
@MrGrace Жыл бұрын
​@@vinnydaq13 what is an LS
@vinnydaq13
@vinnydaq13 Жыл бұрын
@@MrGrace It’s the engine from the Chevy Corvette.
@dougabbott8261
@dougabbott8261 4 жыл бұрын
Different times.
@rickmaginity6042
@rickmaginity6042 4 жыл бұрын
Again more vids like this one .
@queenslander954
@queenslander954 Жыл бұрын
The original American Rebel without a Clue.
@tomdave42
@tomdave42 4 жыл бұрын
Then Billy gotta LS
@benniemcdonald1365
@benniemcdonald1365 4 жыл бұрын
Squares
@garyposton4249
@garyposton4249 4 жыл бұрын
You can't do this nowadays not in high school anyway custom build a hot rod like that would cost you a 100,000 dollars the insurance company wouldn't even let you do it anyway
@yakacm
@yakacm Жыл бұрын
Mr Hanks doesn't seem too concerned about his son dying in a hideous manner.
@ZacLowing
@ZacLowing 2 жыл бұрын
This was written by squares.
@wesrichards6168
@wesrichards6168 4 жыл бұрын
Fast forward to 2020, EVERYONE drives like lunatics and cops just sweep the pieces into body bags.
@daveo532
@daveo532 3 жыл бұрын
Those damn kids...
@MrBothandNether
@MrBothandNether 4 жыл бұрын
"Tom Hanks was Walt's best friend, and his hero, actually" 6:40
@20alphabet
@20alphabet 4 жыл бұрын
Tom Hanks is a baby eating Satanist.
@jccccc4065
@jccccc4065 3 ай бұрын
Did they steal this story for Tokyo Drift?
@elcamino5145
@elcamino5145 4 жыл бұрын
Where's the imports?
@oscarholley891
@oscarholley891 Жыл бұрын
I know what you mean when you say "imports"
@mjinzer6881
@mjinzer6881 5 ай бұрын
😂😂
@mjinzer6881
@mjinzer6881 5 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂
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