Styling Street Rods: Practical Hot Rodder's Guide

Trends in street rodding are evolving all the time. Here's a complete guide to styling your street rod using other rodders project vehicles as a guide. Ten chapters and over 300 photographs give the reader an insight as to how other rodders have designed all aspects of their street rod.

Whether your favourite style is a Nostalgia Rod, High-Tech Smoothy, Elegant Resto-Rod or a Contemporary Driver, you will find plenty to fuel your enthusiasm in Styling Street Rods.

All aspects of street rod styling are covered including front end treatment, rear end treatment, engine bays, access and vision, interiors, running boards and fenders and even accessories. Particular emphasise is placed on making the styling of your street rod practical for everyday use and wherever possible good engineering practice and safety related issues are given special attention.

Larry O'Toole has been publisher of Australian Street Rodding since 1977 and has written many books on hot rodding in that time. He was raised on a Victorian Mallee wheat farm at Ultima, near Swan Hill and moved to Castlemaine with wife, Mary in 1973 to pursue a career in automotive publishing.