So when did hot rods and street rods make it onto the American scene? Most point to the period immediately after World War Two. In addition to this, southern California is credited as the place where it all really began.
Not that souping up cars didn’t occur prior to the war. It certainly did, especially during the era of Prohibition, when moonshiners wanted to outrun the feds. During this era there were also informal races held by the rum runners themselves for bragging rights. Who had the fastest souped up car for evading federal agents. By the last half of as-bac4