Sentences with phrase «hot rodders»

In addition to supporting established programs such as Hot Rodders of Tomorrow, SEMA is delivering new programs, including the SEMA Career Center that will take place at this year's SEMA Show.

SVI even modified a set of 15 - inch steel wheels to obtain the right wheel offset by reversing the wheel rim on the wheel center, an old trick used by hot rodders since the 1950s.

SEMA also gladly supports mentoring programs such as Hot Rodders of Tomorrow to help foster a culture that inspires future industry superstars.

The 2009 SEMA Show will be home to the first ever Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge National Championship.

The championship, dubbed «The Showdown at SEMA,» will feature the winners from Wednesday's qualifying rounds facing off in the inaugural Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge National Championship.

Team Fel - Pro from Joliet Central High School in Joliet, Illinois, earned $ 50,000 in scholarships for its victory in the first Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge National Championship at the 2009 SEMA Show.

Sirs: As a club of true hot rodders we Road Gents have been trying to change public opinion about hot rodding through courtesy and assistance on the road.

Only a few hot rodders make more than nickels and dimes.

FOCUS: HOT WORDSON HOT RODDERS Sirs: Your criticism of Dr. James Killian entitled Glittering Generality of the Week (SI, Feb. 17) could have been more appropriately called The GlitteringAsininity of the Week.

I have longthought that if cities would spend proportionately the same amount of money fordrag strips, workshops, etc., for boys who have a natural mechanicalinclination as they do for those whose talents lie in the athletic field, itwould go a long way toward developing these boys into scientists or engineers.The subsidized hot rodder might well turn out to be another Henry Ford, ThomasEdison or Wernher von Braun.

As far as I candetermine, you are the first national magazine to make a public effort toromanticize the vicious and obnoxious hot rodders.

I am glad to seethat people who are in a position to know do not confuse real hot rodders whoare interested in «improving the breed» with the careless, foolish andreckless driver of the new Detroit stock car, which has more horsepower than heis capable of using.

On a related note, I can not wait to see what updates Han Solo, the Galaxy's coolest hot rodder, has made or might make to the Millennium Falcon.

Hot rodders began flocking here on an annual basis in 1949, when the Southern California Timing Association put together an event at Bonneville because the salt flats offered so much more room than the Mojave Desert dry lakes that had been used in the past.

But most are longtime hot rodders and drag racers who've been infected with «salt fever,» a disease for which there is no known cure.

True to our name, our network spans across hot rodders, racers, and tinkerers, just to name a few.

Hot rodders often left off the hood's side panels for better engine cooling, and it's as much about the look as about the practicality.

Kissimmee was chosen to host the final stop of the Hot Rod Power Tour because of the state's large number of «serious hot rodders and car enthusiasts,» said Ira Gabriel, publisher of Hot Rod magazine.

When the Dart debuted, Chrysler engineers were afraid to stuff anything bigger than a small - block 340 V8 underhood, but eventually outside pressure from hot rodders convinced them to wedge a 440 big - block in there.

Fast SUVs aren't just restricted to hot rodders stuffing giant engines in jacked - up trucks anymore.

It's not a surprise that hot rodders today turn to the Chevy 350 small block as their engine of choice.

Places where generations of hot rodders spent time learning how to fix stuff and get around a garage or shop.

Minimalist artists, motorbikes and speed... Donald Judd used Harley Davidson custom paint for some of his metal boxes in the 60s... Larry Bell used aerospace and also Hot Rodder techniques to produce his work.

Inspired in part by the 2005 Ragster concept, the Beetle's new roofline looks lower and less rounded than before, as if it were chopped by hot rodders.

There has been expansion of the SEMA Young Executive Network (YEN), now 1,300 strong; development of a robust student program that brings 500 - plus automotive students to the SEMA Show each year; and substantial support of other productive youth - oriented automotive programs, such as Hot Rodders of Tomorrow.

The five members of Team Fel - Pro from Jolliet Central High School in Joliet, Illinois, each earned $ 10,000 scholarships for their victory in the inaugural Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge National Championship at the 2009 SEMA Show.

After eight Hot Rodders of Tomorrow events so far this season, teams continue to challenge and compete to score under the 34 - minute mark to qualify for the National Dual Championship Playoffs at the SEMA Show and PRI Trade Show later this year.

The «hot rodders» are a minority.

As king of the hot rodders, Garlits disdains such sympathy, which is misguided anyway.

In our neck ofthe woods a hot rodder is a gravel - throwing, tire - screeching, law - breakingpredator of the highways.

The hot rodder is continually being confused with thistype, and perhaps if Dr. Killian were shown that there is a difference, hewould realize that this type of boy would probably be the very type of «hotmind» he is looking for.

Sirs: I want to congratulate you for your excellent support of hot rodders in theface of Dr. James R. Killian Jr.'s calling for a national effort to «de-emphasize the hot rodders among our youth and to encourage the hotminds.»

It is true thatthere is a breed of young grease - spattered Americans which is tinkering withthe future under the tender watchfulness of girls in blue jeans, but theyshrink in horror when referred to as hot rodders.

slender, non smoker, social drinker, hot rodder, looking for a lady friend.

Using another hot rodder's trick, SVI shaved the rear door handles and fitted electric releases; definitely more custom.

I was rescued by hot rodders!»

Built in California by hot rodder and customizer Steve Moal for a client, this «Gatto» morphs some of the greatest «50s Italian styling cues (think Ferrari, Maserati and Zagato) in this custom creation.

The Hot Rodders of Tomorrow (HROT) Engine Challenge's third event of the 2017 season was held at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, last weekend.

The Hot Rodders of Tomorrow (HROT) Engine Challenge's second event of the 2017 season resulted in four of nine teams qualifying for the Dual National Championship held at the SEMA Show and PRI Trade Show later this year.

The Hot Rodders of Tomorrow (HROT) Engine Challenge's first event of the 2017 season was held last weekend at the 10th Annual Race & Performance Expo.

The Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge pits teams of students from around the country against each other to see who can take apart and reassemble a high - performance Chevy 350 engine in the shortest time using only hand tools.

At the SEMA Show, you'll see the results of several more, including an award for the GEN III Innovator of the Year and the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow competition.

On this, SEMA's 50th anniversary, it is worth noting that repowering the American Dream is not just about new vehicles; it's about new technologies and new ways of thinking for the next generation of hot rodders and enthusiasts.

(Note to hot rodders: The only Multimatic shocks available in the open market are replacements for cars with them as original equipment.

The teams are stacking up with six of the 11 qualifying events completed for the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge.

After 18 teams battled at the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow UTI Pennsylvania Qualifier in Exton, Pennsylvania, last weekend, four schools advanced to the Dual National Championships held later this year at the SEMA Show and PRI Show.