Made for hot rod fans, this vintage hot rod film explains “how to prepare for and enter a car show” and also serves as an ethnographic account of the “nomadic tribe of hot rodders”.
This is good stuff…
Ingenuity in Action – 1958 NHRA Hot Rod Film
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