If I may quote Pat Ganahl from his book Dry Lakes Hot Rods, he states, “You have to remember that most lakes racing—hot rodding—was a child of the Depression. The good part of that was that all kinds of ‘junk’ was available.” As such, it was fair game to build anything if you chased the elusive goal of faster speeds. Ganahl pointed out that lakes cars came in all sizes and shapes, “not just stripped-down Ford roadsters.” But there is no denying that the Ford roadster was the center point of much of this racing.
We should point out that the “lakes-style” roadster build was originally done to achieve greater speeds. These roadsters were stripped of fenders, headlights, windshields, and so on, more for aerodynamics than weight loss. Weight was not…
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Modern Rodding (Digital) - 1 Issue, Volume 5, Issue 47 - August 2024