There are a few concepts that send my brain revving above mental redline. One is infinity. Another is time travel. The third is trying to define the difference between hot rods, street rods, traditional rods, and rat rods.
When the first issue of HOT ROD came out 75 years ago, the name they chose for the magazine was a new term, only a few years old and still loaded with negative associations. Every car that appeared in HOT