Rod Pins and Buttons

Hot sixties style muscle car illustration, aggressive profile, lots of chrome, huge tires and rims...

Who ya gonna race?

This design includes a large Bee Line Dragway imprint on the back and a small AHRA logo on the front making it twice as cool! On July 20, 1963, ground was broken for a drag strip to be built on the Salt River Indian Reservation in what was then a pretty rural area in Scottsdale, Arizona. Jim Rodgers, national 1962 C/S drag champ, built the track on eighty acres of land leased for ten years from the Salt River Pima Indian tribe. Directions to the track were given as being four miles north of the McDowell Road on Arizona Highway 87. It was a 60-foot wide quarter-mile asphalt strip, with seating for 2,000 people, and a pit area to accommodate 300 cars. It opened for every-week Sunday racing on October 6, 1963, under AHRA sanction.

Very cool thirties style vintage custom hot rod cartoon illustration in black and white.

Hot looking low rider hot rod coupe with flames and lots of chrome

By 1958 header builder Sandy Belond had assembled a small team and was selling his headers through more than 2,000 dealers and his business was hugely successful. Sandy sold the business to A-P Industries, better known as Appliance Plating, and by 1960 they had rebranded Belond Headers as Appliance. Appliance couldn't figure out how to run the business, so they hired Sandy to run it and he did so until his passing in 1988. Appliance-made headers continued to leverage Sandy's basic designs, but added their own bright white ceramic coating which in most cases, lasted longer than the engines they were bolted to which is no small feat for a coating on one of the hottest parts of a car.

This Pennsylvania-based performance legend started out as a maker of motor mounts for engine swaps and floor-shifters back in 1958, but they steadily expanded their product line through the 1960s. Hurst wheels, Line/Loc, and Swifter Shifter gloves were developed among other items, and later, Airheart Brakes and the Schiefer Manufacturing Company, which made clutches and other driveline components, were acquired. Hurst Performance floor-shifters were skillfully engineered, reliable and stirring in appearance, plus, their marketing was in tune with the times, catering to the flourishing muscle car movement of the 1960s. Their shifters infiltrated the drag racing, stock car racing, off-road racing and many other areas of motorsports.

70's TV

Rough, low-budget, and, sneered at by other automotive enthusiasts! Worn paint or a primered finish is one characteristic of Rat Rods! LET'S ROCK GET READY TO RAT ROD RUMBLE!

Welcome to the Twilight Zone...

Just a classic look, funny hot rod cartoon, full bold colors, a bit of distressed aged look, perfect for every car guy and gal.

Rod Wave Vibes by Rod

Vector Illustration of a Classic Charger

Hot Rod designs

1930 Ford Tudor-Hot Rod

Midwest Auto Specialties was an early mail order speed equipment merchant. Based in Cleveland Ohio, with a branch in Indianapolis in 1967 and multiple retail stores throughout Ohio, they shipped nationwide. They carried an unbelievable selection of speed equipment and custom car parts making them a true hot rodders resource. The emphasis was on racing and street performance, but especially drag racing. Shifters, intake manifolds, exhaust headers, ignition systems, adapters, camshafts from many manufacturers plus racing steering, and dragster wheels They carried it all and for most people who wanted to soup up their car, they simply couldn't get these items locally, so Midwest Auto Specialties hooked them up by mail!

Vince Crains High Octane Art! "JUST IDLIN" featuring a 1968 Chevelle SS, bursting with Super charged bow tie horse power!

rod wave

Sharp custom red hot American style classic restomod coupe hot rod with shiny paint, lots of chrome, low profile, aggressive stance, large chrome rims and white wall tires.

Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee on February 1, 1952. Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Prior to that, Sun had concentrated mainly on African-American musicians because Phillips loved rhythm and blues and wanted to bring it to a white audience.

What is Rat Rod Angry? Ask the guy wearing the shirt!!

Holley High Performance distressed tshirt

Rod Wave in WPAP style

Burt Reynolds

Vince Crains High Octane Art! "LEFTY LUCY" featuring a RAT ROD vintage show car, bursting with HEMI horse power!

Rod Strickland - Washington Bullets

The General

Mean, low, jet black custom street rod cartoon with huge tires, black rims, and chrome engine.

"There Is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as time and space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and supserstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.

Rod Wave Abstract

Be the best master baiter at the river!

Cartoon retro rat rod

Paul Rodriguez - P-Rod

Gets the blood pumping!