The Cool Hot Rod (1953)
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Uses narration by a teen-ager to show how a hot-rod club contributes to safe driving through its strict membership rules and restriction of speed runs to 'DRAG STRIPS.'. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
I was very good friend's with Marvin ( Mickie ) Ryding the young star of this film. R.I.P.
What ?! How did he die ?!
Where I live in California, all the drag strips have been getting shut down for years, the land is extremely valuable and people are building apartments and housing there because it’s profitable. There was been a huge influx of illegal street racing and activity at night in my area and deaths because of it and it’s because there is no place for people my age to enjoy our cars anymore. If our cities and local officials would just take a look at the history books and realize that drag strips were created for the very reason to save lives and keep the roads safe, maybe they would keep a few around.
Man, sure looks like a simpler time. Wish I could've been around for these days.
Only if ur white.
Then you'd likely be dead now
great video
I was 10 years old in 1953 next door to Inglewood. Believe me it was pretty nice wouldn't live there for any amount of money now.
I started working on cars at 15
My dad and I spent two years restoring a 55 Chevy in 1978
It was a great bonding experience with my dad
Great comment, every father in America from the 1950's to the 1990's wanted this with their sons. If they say no, they're lying or stupid. This is what makes America great, family and love. So much love for your son that you pass down all you have learned so he can be a man. Basic engineering skills passed to your son is life. Hopefully one day he will tell you something you don't know, that's when you know you succeeded. God bless America and American families.
I don't have a son but I do have 4 daughters and one of them is really into Hot Rodding! She just loves old junk like I do! I can fully relate to the bonding! Your comment made my day.
Sounds like that shit the tv put in ur head are u white usually white people that
Same here. When I was only 11, me and my old man did a body off resto on my ‘68 Charger R/T 440 back in 1985. I learned a lot about cars on that project. He only paid $1300 for the car which wasn’t really in horrible condition. Sadly those days of cheap 60’s and 70’s muscle are gone.
@@jayski8987; I bought a brand new 69' Chevelle SS 396. Drove it off the dealerships lot for less than $ 4,000. It was the 350 HP motor, 4 speed Tranny and 3:73 Posi rear-end. It was Hugger Orange with Black interior.
I sure miss that car.
The earliest shots of Pomona drag strip I've ever seen on film!
In 1953, there was already a personal custom car and a hot rod magazine for enthusiasts, so America is a car powerhouse.
saw this in high school 1955 @ the organization meeting for the crusaders car club nice nice memory thanks for bring it back
Car clubs in the SFV. Modifiers, Demons, Exchangers, Custods, Elders, and more. Cousins were in the Modifiers.
Brings back memories of the San Fernando Drags off Glenaoks Blvd. Sat here with a smile on my face all the way through. Helped a guy reset the plugs on his rail the day he made the 1st 200+ mph run @ San Fernando. SF was used in the movie Hot Rod Girl with Chuck Conners in the cast. Item: the actress who starred in the movie used her own TBird due to budget constraints.
Great memories
How it all started. Loved this.
Love the Studebaker cop car!!
Watching these old movies are depressing they show how bad we have screwed up society.
Vacuum wiper motors, starter switch/button under the gas pedal, swamp-cooler in the passengers door window, front drum brakes and don’t forget to check your 6 volt battery. Once warm, push the dash mounted choke to off. Somebody else pumped your gas, first, the amount you wanted into the glass top tank, then let gravity follow it into the tank. It cost 19.9 cents per gallon, motor oil can in bottles, a coke was a nickel and antifreeze was not pre-mixed with half water. Jiffy lube could not find the PCV valve because it was a metal draft tube hanging next to the oil pan. I like “IKE” stickers on a real chrome bumper. What a deal! Retired auto tech. Been there, did that but never got the “Tee-Shirt”.
This is set at Morningside High School in Inglewood CA. - the paper used is the
Hollywood Tribune...
The Century Drive In Theatre is used in
several scenes and can be seen behind the school campus shots.
Not sure about now, but Morningside area used to be very nice!
Thank you for that information. I was 10 years old in 1953 and I went to Dorsey high 1959 to 1961. We had a swim meet with Morningside which was still pretty new compared to Dorsey High. Both areas are I believe now congested and somewhat dangerous.
I work at a hardware store and just recently a customer told me about airfield drag strips, I thought that was the only one to exist but I see now that it was once a regular thing, I wish I could have lived in these times, back when racing was real.
The problem with air field dragstrips is that the sections were slightly uneven and could cause weird grip issues and crashes as the cars would pass over the expansion joints. Smoothness is all, not the depth of the concrete needed for landing a heavy airplane. Old runways seemed like a good idea, but unless carefully reworked-- most weren't-- they weren't a good idea.
sigh People are always saying that x and y was real before. Rose tinted glasses is a virus.
This video is a true piece of American history.
This is how we were.No wonder we are so screwed up today.
Really cool little show.Reminds me of the old Rod books by Henry Gregor Felsen.That comment about "Except Negroes" was kinda' funny considering Inglewood became a crime-ridden "Hood".This flick shows some of these neighborhoods were once nice to live in,but the World must have been a different place then.
I must have missed that " Except negroes ' comment in the movie
Not really funny though , kinda sucks actually
My father learned how to drive from a retired race car driver. He once asked the driver why he drove so mellow on the street when he knew he could do crazy things. The answer was simple: "I get my adrenaline on the track. I don't need any more right now."
So in both this story and the vid, if you have an accessible and controlled environment for racing, people will just let loose there instead. I would certainly prefer to go to a strip and not have to think about tickets or other cars but alas, my project is far from that stage lol
My dad rode a Triumph around CA in them days. No helmets and very little traffic. It was bliss, he sez.
...this guy tunes a carburetor with a valve seat grinder and a cutting torch...
We in Moscow begin assembly of the Russia's first dragsters (the class Super Comp E.T. 8.90 s nostalgia Funny car w.b. 125" both altered w.b.125" and nostalgia front engine dragster w.b. 140/200").
Woah, thats cool! I'd like to hear more
I love this video.. I've watched it a few times..
Though I'l never understand why the guy who got hit by the train didn't just keep going straight instead of turning into the oncoming train.. haha
He was still trying to win and beat the train
It's not the 'hot rod'. It's the jackass drivers that gave hot rods the bad reputation.
When I was in high school I belonged to a car club called The Cambusters at North high in Bakersfield California
I was in school in the 1950s - and 1960s - and we had plenty of young men that tinkered with cars - and "jalopies" - but not one guy in our city drove a hot rod roadster like that to school. NOT ONE! For one thing - the schools would not allow anyone to drive like that or run such a car to school. Of course, I was raised in Michigan - but went to high school in Huntington Beach, Ca. No one at that school had a hot rod like these.
Lies and Propaganda
I was born in 1953, it's amazing how little has changed today young people just take over a street and drive in circles just last week in a police chase they crashed and killed some people so 69 years later and we haven't changed much!!!! 2022
THANKS FOR POSTING......GOOD OL DAYS......
+GASOLINE JUNKIE RIGHT! When white kids "drove the cops crazy" with their hot rods and there wasn't a blackie in sight... #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
Breitbart Editor your a racist piece of shit
Thanks,a magic piece of nostalgia!!!!
I loved seeing the cars.
Jim and Jack Daniels provided the booze Tom Hanks is in Australia with covid-19😂
And that was the last time a Ford ever got a reliability award.
"Tom Hanks was Walt's best friend"
Lmao, the actor Tom Hanks was born 3 years after this film
@Fred Wucher Tom Hanks is not a Jr. His father's name was Amos Hanks.
Interesante documento audiovisual. Llama la atención el modelo de automóvil al iniciar la película. Muy populares en los films de los 50s y 60s, de hecho, sirvieron como imagen de la juventud de la época. Ejemplo.de ello era el carro en la serie Archie. Miren las revistas y fotos casi al finalizar el.film. Todo un tesoro lo que vemos.
Great little video on the early days of hotrodding and trying to promote safety. To bad those days are pretty much gone and that little roadster could never be afforded by punk kid.
Maybe in the year 2074 somebody comments in Global Neural Net of Humans something like: "those internal combustion engines sounded really cool, too bad those days are gone forever, and that little import tuner could never be afforded by punk kid".
yes but only in specific circumstances. If you work in a shop, you can get a project car and/or race car, but otherwise you need prior tooling and some serious dedication and knowledge.
also, hotrodding has progressed from the 40s and 50s cars. Back in that time, the 30s and 40s cars were a common and cheap car. Now, it is the turn of the century civics and subarus, for example, that are this generation's hotrods.
@@YPO6 Funny enough, we say this about most Japanese import tuners these days, mostly 1980's to 1990's ones, they have become cult classic cars these days.
Soon some of the more modern Japanese sportscars such as the Toyota GT86 and Mitsubishi EVO X might soon become rare cars
I grew up not far from here. The one commenter who stated that this was Morningside High School, and in one clip you can see the Century Drive-in Theater, was absolutely correct. At the time this was a very prosperous area. The city of Inglewood was an upper middle class area (doctors, lawyers and the such). The aerospace industries were all here and California as a whole was a very prosperous state to live in. It was about the late sixties when all this started falling into urban decay and "White Flight".
My family and I left quite a few years ago. Today the Los Angeles basin is really a "Third World City". There are still areas of prosperity (White) but most have fallen into corruption and decay. There is hope however because the Asian immigrants coming into the city are rebuilding the city and surrounding areas. These people are for the most part very hard working, industrious and family oriented people. They do not have a "You Owe Me" attitude. Sorry for going on however Los Angeles was at one time aptly named "The City of Angeles".
You have to understand, that the blacks who helped run Inglewood to the ground did it with the help of the white folks who locked them out of the economy. Knuckle heads of the 40s 50s and early 60s " grew out of it " by their mid 20s, they got factory jobs that paid a good wage , bought houses only in areas that WHERE NOT RESTRICTED because unlike the south that had signs posted " WHITE ONLY " LA didn't have that sign, but none the less they sure practiced that. Those factory jobs off alameda and all over la started to pick up shop and move to areas where blacks weren't allowed. Blacks were SHUT OUT of the aerospace industry. Skilled worker Unions didn't accept many blacks....the welfare acts of the mid 60s said a woman can get this and that from the county but A MAN CAN'T LIVE WITH YOU..... one place that hired blacks was and is called the streets. Read the book " " city limits " by CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE Professor John Sides he really dug into that. I'm not defending the idiots who ruined LA, but you got to understand who put that in motion.
Hot rods, Motocross (Off road dirt bikes in Europe), and the Hell's Angles (on road in the USA) started after WW2. Motocross made it's way to the USA in 1968. All three, were based on the individual who wanted excitement in their lives. Many were WW2 Vets returning home. Others were free spirits involved in manufacturing.
All three share the spirit that makes individual freedom great, because individual freedom is where all greatness comes from, (OK, the Hell's Angles were not always great, and that is not really good).
It’s crazy to think that my Honda Odyssey minivan can beat any one of the hot rods in this video
My dad graduated from Morningside High in Inglewood in ‘65. Kinda cool.
Great video
Holy crap. Look at the size of the tiller on that rod. Must be the size of a LARGE pizza.
+Eric Black No power steering...more leverage!...These are the guys that invented the "suicide knob" for the steering wheel.
At 1:15, the comment "rich old ladies in old-time electric heaps" made it sound like in the '50s there was still an an awareness of of the early electric cars.
The '32 Ford Roadster and Ford V8 Flatty! The car and engine that started it all....
Great movie clip
Officer was so involved....but those kids had much more respect then kids nowa days...
Because the kids nowa days get much more intimidating, disrespectful involvement from the officers. What goes around comes around.
I am reminded of Ren and Stimpy by the music.
@Danger Bear every one needs a log! A log, a log,a log!.. from the makers of varicose veins!
I was born in the wrong time! This looks so cool. (Born in 1984)
I'm glad I was born in 1943. You have to make the best of it 1984. It'll be all right.
Awesome video. Glad I watched it.
He was a goose greaser...a real tough guy😂
Hahahaha
What I want to know is, what unnatural acts did they perform on the geese after they greased them?
You got to love a Studebaker police car.
BEN HUR HIGHLY RECOMENDS ORGANISED RACING. HE SAID THOSE STEEL BLADES IN THE SPOKES ARE HELL THOUGH.
old time electric heaps.... what goes around.....
Search 'electric dragster '
Very cool cars.
You know you're hosed right out of the gate when Officer Jim Daniels exits his patrol car with his ticket book already in hand.
Dad grew up in those days. The talk of Dekalb county was a 57 Fairlane with a police order 312 interceptor V8, he gave a lot of shoebox fellas the fits even the 57 belaire guys. Dad sold her to a high school buddy who had too much of a lead foot and killed himself. Dad moved on to the air force and got stationed in Mertyl Beach and had a custom 53 lightened and boosted panhead he bought from a local gearhead who needed a little cash cause he had a family on the way. He had a buddy "borrow" his bike to go see his girlfriend and was running late for guard duty and hitting triple digits on one of those thousands of miles of new interstate that president Eisenhower had the foresight to have built across the country. Local county mounty estimated he pulled away at 160 mph. They finally caught him and base commander threatened him with separation if he didn't sell that bike. Fast forward to the late 70's and dad drove a 64 polara 383 in triple black. The bug hit me on a long drive over looking puget sound outside of Seattle. The return spring on that Carter carburetor broke and the kick down on that torqueflite took over and back in the day I would stand up and look over the dash, 😂 well I ended up in the rear seat and by the time I got back up looked over his shoulder at that dashboard the needle blew past 80. Dad killed it and coasted and I said let's do it again and he curtly replied.. NO!. Now fast forward to the mid 90's and I'm in my stint and stationed in Norfolk VA. I was the young Mopar nut with a 70 dart swinger and a high mileage 340 but was still welcome to "hang" with the fellas and I get invited to take a ride with the president of the Tidewater Mopar club who also was the regional manager of a national chain of auto parts stores. His 71 challenger RB was punched out north of 500 cubes with a chromed out 10-71 screaming like a banshee. Many Friday nights at Jenro's pub and later at Patrick Henry mall watching guys talk trash and line up digs usually for cash money and usually north of two grand just for a ten second pull.. Saw wads of 20's, lots of F body's, A body's and fox body's and guys with those brick cell phones working out the top secret details on where it was going down. Long before PINKS was a thing. My goodness how things have changed.. I've seen a lot of cool drag strips that have come and gone. Used to have a great strip south of Kansas City (KCIR) , but she's long gone 😢 and Heartland park on Gary Ormsby drive in Topeka just closed over a battle over high taxes. The Sports Car Club of America S.C.C.A is literally a quarter mile away and they use that world class track ( think John Force setting Top Fuel world records ) for their events, so they might leave as well. The spirit lives on even if the tracks close down. At least now the cars have better brakes and collision avoidance, but I prefer the old days of high octane and squawkin tires.
Nice little flick. Thanks for posting.
Soon these kids would be cruising in their hot rods to Elvis & Chuck Berry and the world would never be the same!
General Patzer
And Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, and Buddy Holly lol.
Awesome
so this kid was basically the 1950s equivalent of that kid a 4.6 mustang with a CAI? huh, who would've guessed.
Minus the ridiculous subwoofers and fast and furious movies that made him believe his mustang went 200mph with a bottle of octane booster from autozone. Then ya the same
@@benderc7778 lol you dont think they had movies that glorified driving fast in the 50s?
When your local neighborhood had its own dragstrip for good family fun. Sounds better then the insanity that goes on these days!
The Rod at 1.55 still exists, it had been lying in a yard for 60 years
imagine going back in time with a lambo and they tell you many factory things are unsafe
When I was a Kid my older Brother and I were bummed when my Dad got Stationed in CO. from CA.
Pomona Raceway in Pomona California
Those kids were squares...
"they drove like rich old ladies in old time electric heaps"
Grinding valves and seats. SWEEEET!!!
Done that with a suction cup and a stick!
@@redradiodog And carborundum. Because to increase air flow into the L-block cylinder, they'd take the cylinder wall down between the valves and the pistons as far as they could go, even removing some of the valve seat to get even lower. This would often leave them with a bare wisp of a lip for the valve to seat against, and so would burn and get "leaky" quickly and easily. Constant dressing to spiff up the edges were required, therefore.
That looks like Wally Parks doing the inspection. Wally, the Father of the NHRA.
Narrator's voice sure sounds like Eddie Haskell...with the same attitude!
Tom Hanks is way older than he looks.
Who was funding these hot rod promo films? The auto industry?
City of Inglewood California. They made one about homosexual predators and probably others too. The city is right next to Compton and it’s very different now.
Who else pays for PSA's? The taxpayer!!!
AWESOME!
James Dean did a public service spot on TV about the dangers of driving too fast and recklessly on public roads. We all know what happened to Jimmy Dean.
Yeah, James Dean was killed by a old dude that was blinded by sunlight and crossed into the path of James Dean.
No, genius, the other driver had the right of way and Dean ran a stop sign, thinking that he could beat him. Slight miscalculation.
All skinny in the 50s
+Ian Harris Yeah, My Dad said it was the same when he was young near Pittsburgh, PA.
(I say that since there's a Pittsburg - yes, sans an h at the end - in California... And funny enough there's a place named California in Pennsylvania.)
Back then, it wasn't a crime to tell a kid to lose weight. There was no such thing as "body shaming." If you had trouble losing weight, then you took up smoking Lucky Strikes. There were no support groups for overeaters. You just stopped eating like a hog and people stopped calling you 'Lumpy' or 'Porky.'
not skinny, just normal.
Because most of the US went through two periods of fasting, namely the Grwat Depression and WW2. The junk food craze didn't start until 1955 with McDonalds and TV Dinner...
To be called a "whale" or a "heifer" was more motivation to lose weight than all of the gyms and weight loss fads that we're inundated with today.
They looked happy at the public school.
Which drag strip is this? San Fernando?
This type of young man is making US cities such as Detroit, Cleveland and Baltimore 'no go areas'. He drives too fast, has long hair and probably listens to modern jazz music. It's shocking behaviour and a bad example to the wonderful youth of today.
This is before the era of "militarized police." Police really were part of the community then.
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These cops are volunteering on their own time to help kids that think they know how to drive.
Im 25 years old and been into street racing and fixing up import cars for a while now. Our city uses the gang task force to try and shut down all the late night racing on the highways and back roads you gotta be very careful now a days. Most of the small time drag strips closed down decades ago and the big expensive ones are more interested in catering to big nhra spectator events with guys like john force and making money they don't seem to care about giving the younger kids and grassroots racers a safe place to race we don't bring in enough money to make it worth their time. Man sometimes looking at these old video's makes me wish i had grown up in a different era.
This is a propaganda film dude...
@tponn You think ReBLOODlicans are any better? ROFL ROFL
@aknowneemus Inglewood!
Spent all his time on perfecting the engine...no breaks ! 7:43
Those are some real cuties at 1:30! Too bad they're all our moms and grandmoms now, Lol.
They are probably dead. If they were 20 back then, theyd have to be around 86 years old now.
Those hotrodders are really heroes
I found producers of engines, boxes, the chassis, nostalgia Funny car & altered bodies much, but without having anybody experience in assembly and nostalgia Funny car & altered dragster service in our country, it is difficult to me to choose reading "National Dragster NHRA". In Russia there is NO REAL DRAGSTER! If you help me a choice of producers and deliveries to Russia, you will have the commission from deliveries from 10 kit funny cars a year.
One of the knights drove a black Ford Consul MkI LOL!.
That's some hep music, Daddio.
Damn hot rodders lol :) Pretty nice machine you get there.
My guess is that the reason Hot Rodding was considered dangerous was that drivers didn't know how to drive them safely. Driving a hot rod I would think is no different from driving any other car. With practice, they can be driven as safely as any other car on the road.
They often had over performing engines and under performing brakes, this, with no seatbelts and open wheeled cars, not to mention the hot rod driving given as an example in this video shows a general lack of regard for safety.
That's so true. Back then, it was just drum brakes all the way around. Drum brakes have a tendency to fade out when used to much, and you will find yourself without any breaks at all!
@@jaysontadlock1871 That, and lack of experience driving like that can add to the risk and danger.
"Hot Rodding the nice way" lol
Hi would it be possible for me to gain permission to use parts of this video as archive footage in a documentary I am putting together about modified cars and how it where it all came from ? Thanks in advance Jordan Evans
Gee Wally that Tom Hanks kid wasn't very keen..., I know Beaver..., Do you think the same thing will happen to Eddie Haskell ? ..., Nah Eddie's dad's so cheap he won't even buy him a bus pass much less a cool car ha ha ha ;))
BillCompo Hey Wally, Lumpy Rutherford's lookin' for ya....he wants to race !
very interesting
***** Didn't you hear Wally was killed in Vietnam last week. His platoon Sargent Dobie Gillis stepped on a trip wire and blew up half the platoon and then Maynard G Krebs was tripping on some brown acid he had left from Woodstock flipped out and shot the rest of Wally's platoon before he ran off into the jungle screaming " Now you can call me Ray or you can call me Jay but you doesn't have to call me Mr Johnson."
BillCompo Oh,NO !! Lumpy was gonna propose !!
***** Poor Lumpy always a bridesmaid never a bride lol
Anyone know which dragstrip this was?
Hot rod or lead sled?
Me? I'm over in that garage creating a surreal creation ED ROTH style .. he he
Officer Bacon should receive a citation for driving an unsafe vehicle on the public streets!🤨
Very good
Im have a Hot in Brasil
tom hanks was young back then lol
1:13 he says people drive like old ladies in old time electric heaps.
Where, in the day, did an average teenager amass sufficient dough to afford this hobby?
They went to work. U know what that is? That's how they amassed sufficient dough! They didn't sit around the house punching smart phones. Their Daddies wouldn't put up with that shit.
Scavaging parts mostly, that's why early fords commonly had SBC in them
21:25
@@kingcosworth2643 The s.b. didn't even come out until a year after this was made, they used flathead fords in the early rods.
@ yeah '55, but yeah you're right.
Sounds like Eddie Haskell narrating
way to kool
How sad that this video begins with a commercial telling us how "American" the Toyota truck is.
What's even sadder is that a Toyota is technically the most 'American' vehicle manufactured.
@@RockandrollNegro Teslas are the most American vehicles made.
@@rubiconnn Now being built from PRChina...
this is the full movie?
I have all those magazines hahah