Hot Road Classic Racing Socks
Description: A very cool classic automotive nostalgia design featuring a custom thirties style hot rod car with beautiful classic hotrod styling. Nice retro vintage iron street rod theme and cool retro colors really makes this design pop. Illustrated by Jeff Hobrath.
Cool Classic Retro Vintage Iron Thirties Style Hot Rod Car Socks
by hobrath
$14 $20
Description: A perfect gift for someone who loves drag racing. Perfect to wear on Christmas, Birthday, Halloween, Father's Day, Thanksgiving, Anniversary and even on ordinary days.
It's Nice To Be Stroked But I'd Rather Be Blown Funny Drag Racing Socks
by TeeNation
$14 $20
Description: Awesome Vintage Hot Rods Forever design by Jeff Hobrath for the automotive enthusiast. Distressed antique grunge aged style graphic. If you love hot rods, classic cars, muscle cars, old school custom street rods and hotrod cars, this design is for you! For dads, grandpa, men, women, kids and anyone who loves hot rods, classic cars and muscle cars. Perfect for car enthusiasts on Christmas, birthdays and fathers day. If you’re a fan of automotive nostalgia and vintage hot rod cars you'll love this car art!
Vintage Gratiot Hot Rod Garage Sign bought to you by MotorManiac Socks
by MotorManiac
$14 $20
Description: What do you get when you mash up hot rods and monsters? In 1980, the answer would have been Weird Wheels trading card stickers. Featuring a checklist of colorful creations along the lines of the late '60s Odd Rods cards, the set blends Kustom Kulture with matinée horror. The cards themselves have monsters and other creatures driving absurdly customized cars, trucks, and motorcycles. As cool as the cards looked, they came out at a time when the Kustom Kulture was well past its peak, and the set flopped, but that doesn't mean they're still not cool! This one features the 'Hot Rabbit' in his triple drive wheel hot hatch from card #2.
Description: The 429 was NOT simply a 1 (or 2) cubic inch larger version of the blue oval 427 & 428 engines. It was a totally new engine from a different engine family. This design was a departure from the paradigm, utilizing thin-wall casting methods and a skirtless block to reduce weight. The Super Cobra Jet, rated at 375 HP, had a 4-bolt main block, a Holley 780 cfm 4BBL carburetor, and a larger mechanical camshaft. It was only available with a 3.91 or 4.30 rear axle ratio. In 1971, the CJ engine also used a 4-bolt main block. However, these engines were actually derated and produced power in the 440–460 HP range. This was done to deceive insurance companies (common practice in that era), so that buyers did not have to pay higher insurance rates.
Description: The B&M Hydro Stick became the only patented four-speed automatic racing transmission in history when it launched in 1961. Based on the popular Hydramatic line of transmissions, the B&M Hydro Stick allowed racers to manually shift their automatic transmissions. In a time when manuals ruled the track, B&M’s Hydro Stick changed the game by making it possible to keep an automatic transmission in low gear until the driver decided to upshift.
Description: R.A. and F.D. Stranahan are essentially the founders of Champion Spark Plug Company. Sort of. At the very least, they ended up with the patent on the Champion name which they legally and wisely used to eventually create the largest spark plug manufacturing company in the world. But it certainly didn’t start out that way. More than 20 thousand dollars in debt, and with a company that was fledgling along at best, the brothers had little choice but to move to Toledo when Willys-Overland Motor Company offered R.A. and F.D. a contract under which Champion would become the exclusive spark plug of automobiles manufactured at Willys-Overland. The deal came with the stipulation that the Stranahans must make Toledo their home.
Description: Awesome old school 1957 style hotrod, popping a wheelie, huge chrome engine, classic flames custom paint, American muscle car cartoon vector illustration
Classic hot rod fifties style gasser drag racing muscle car, red hot flames, big engine, lots of chrome, cartoon illustration Socks
by hobrath
$14 $20
Description: Foulger was a Blue Oval dealership on Huntington Drive in Monrovia, California and was one of the first dealerships to dive headfirst into drag racing, sponsoring several drag cars in the '60s and '70s. Their racing logo definitely reflected the times and their top competitors, most notably the 440 powered Plymouth Roadrunners.
Description: Conquer the tarmac with vintage style in this Retro Road Racing Bicycle artwork. Featuring a classic steel-frame road bike built for speed and endurance, this design is ideal for road cyclists, vintage bike restorers, peloton fans, cycling enthusiasts, and classic endurance racing lovers.
Retro Road Racing Bicycle Vintage Cycling Classic Bike Socks
by Vehicles-Art
$14 $20
Description: 18 funny cartoon cars all in one design! Hot rods, muscle cars, classic cars, with lots of chrome and crazy styling by Jeff Hobrath.
Car Madness! Muscle Cars, Classic Cars and Hot Rods Cartoon Socks
by hobrath
$14 $20
Description: Detailed, chaotic Kustom Kulture artwork in the style of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, featuring Rat Fink with a Mopar muscle car engine.
Mopar King of Hemis Rat Fink Detailed Art Socks
by Rust and Light Photography
$14 $20
Description: Like other performance pioneers, Ed Iskenderian was a Southern California hot rodder in the years leading up to World War II, learning speed secrets in an effort to make his own T roadster go faster. Grinding camshafts came after the war when a sudden demand for parts - fueled by returning GIs eager to get back to hot rodding - was so great that Iskenderian was faced with a long wait for a cam he wanted for his own car. Figuring he could do as just as good himself, he bought a surplus cylindrical grinder, converted it into a cam-grinding machine, and went to work. He wasn't just making a similar cam to those available at the time - he made them better, rightfully earning him the nickname of 'The Camfather.'
Description: 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!
Description: Plymouth’s boxy Belvedere GTX may have been late to the party in '67, but the division cleaned house on everybody else in '68 with the Road Runner. Unlike the GTX, this time Plymouth got it right; dropping in a 335 bhp 383 cid V-8 with 440 Super Commando heads and cam in a bare bones 3,000-lb, two-door hardtop with a 4-speed synchro transmission. Base price was $2,870.00, skinned down to a rubber floor mat and non-pleat taxicab interior. If you wanted carpet and bright work, you had to drop another $79.20 for the décor group. More power by way of a 425 bhp, 426 cid Hemi would cost you $714.30, but the base car was quick and simple, and that's exactly how most buyers liked it.
Description: The Ansen Automotive company traces its roots to a machinist named Louis Senter, a California native and machinist's mate in the Navy during World War II. Louis opened Senter Engineering with his brother in Los Angeles, where they worked on custom machining for hot rodders. The Senter brothers found another partner in engine building specialist Jack Andrews in 1947, and the trio combined their last names to re-christen the business Ansen Automotive Engineering. The new firm developed many go-fast parts as well as began building dry lakes racers, midgets and drag racers in-house. Ansen Automotive speed shop was also where Louis developed complete engines that were popular with racecar drivers, moonshiners and the revenue agents chasing them.
