Hot Rod

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Summary: Praise for HOT ROD
Review: "...a stylized coffee-table book that details America's obsession with speed while tipping a heavy hat to the current retro chic

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Summary: From Mountain Bike:
Review: "In his recent coffee-table book, photographer and self-styled rockabilly artist David Perry pulls the greasy edges and angles of the hot rod life into a full black and white view. They're all there: gear-heads, greasers, and their rockabilly queens, drag-strip beatniks, body men, sheet-metal fabricators, machinists. Oh, and the cars--Mercs, Fords, and Chevys, chopped, channeled, and slammed--drive through the book. Over the course of a year Perry traveled from the annual drag races on the Great Salt Lake, to the chop shops of East Bakersfield, to the swingin' night clubs of San Francisco, gathering shots for this books. 'His pictures remind me of those times when I've walked into the wrong bar...,' wrote author Barry Gifford of Perry's incisive black-and -white photos. Gifford, the author of "Wild at Heart" and "Lost Highway" (both adapted to screen by David Lynch), has penned a tale of gearhead love to give legs to Perry's photos."

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Summary: Tasty, Especially for Gear Heads.
Review: Although I wish there was more text, the great photos give you a pretty good idea about the gear heads, the drivers, the races, and those incredible salt flats.

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Summary: Awsome!
Review: If you like the american way of hot roddind this pictorial is THE BOOK! it has everything from shops to cars to bonniville.... IT ROCKS

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Summary: Great Great Great
Review: No word to decribe. A masterpiece

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Summary: SO-SO
Review: This book has some definite positives, but it's heavy on the (moody) photographs and light on anything else. All b&w and self-conciously "arty." As you can see above, 3 stars out of 5.