Thread: What Was The First Car To Inspire You To Hot Rod

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Let's talk about the Bart Root '29/'32 again. For me my memories of Hot Rod magazine articles read as a 15 year old teenager had to do with the shape of the '29 Ford cowl. It blends the engine compartment into the body in a way similar to a track roadster and it has always facinated me, even today. Thus I would have to say that reading articles with pictures of '29 Fords had a large effect on what I think a rod should look like ('41 Ford Coupes look good too! Hey, a nice '40 Ford convert. with a Carson top can be dynamite as well!). Here is a picture I have posted before from the 2006 NHRA Richmond Nats which shows that sweet cowl! Whoever has those old pictures of the Root Roadster could post them again for me! The Root roadster was included in one of the anniversary issues of HRM, the 20th I believe.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder