The Ultimate Guide to Hot Rods & Street Rods : Chartwell Books

- $11.95

Street Rodder Hp1346 : HP Trade

First in a series of custom techniques and tips on all areas of building a street rod. Features designing and how-to procedures on building the chassis and suspension for all types of street rods. - $11.81

Gasser Wars: Drag Racing's Street Classes: 1955-1968 : Car Tech

CarTech s bestseller, Gasser Wars, has been re-released in a new softbound format at a reduced price.
In the late 1950s, thousands of street legal hot rods participated in organized drag races across the country they ran in three major classes: Gas, Modified Production, and Modified Sports. As the racers got more serious, these cars were street legal in appearance only. Yeah, they had headlights, taillights, and interiors, but they were full-on race cars, with huge blown Hemi engines, wide racing slicks, and raised front suspensions.
Racers soon discovered that small, lightweight cars were the fastest, and the classic Gasser was born. Fans swarmed to watch big-names like Stone, Woods & Cook, Ohio George Montgomery, Big John Mazmanian, and others. These were among the most popular and exciting racers of the era many of the top original cars have been restored and are now valuable museum pieces, and the Gasser look is popular again among hot rodders.
Author Larry Davis combined his own image archive with many rare, never-published images from racers, fans, and track photographers all over the country. He also did extensive research and interviews with former drag racers. The result is a comprehensive, entertaining, and nostalgic look at drag racing history. - $15.93

The Fast and the Furious : Universal Studios

On the turbo-charged streets of los angeles every night is a championship race. With nitro-boosted fury dominic toretto rules the road turning all his challengers into dust. He and his rival johnny tran are the boldest the baddest and the best. But now theres new rage on the road. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/05/2008 Starring: Paul Walker Michelle Rodriguez Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Rob Cohen - $5.72

Kurt Weill: The Centennial : Lml Music

- $10.98

1/24 '30 Ford Woody Street Rod : Revell-monogram 2064

Assembly Required Skill Level 2. Ages 10 and up. - $13.59

The Musicals: The Best Of : Solid Gold

- $6.08

Urban Desire : Hip-O Select

The intentional and exquisite raw production of Genya Ravan's Urban Desire explores the high voltage newly emerging in cities around the world during the cherished "New Wave" movement in rock. Ravan's production of The Dead Boys "Sonic Reducer" in 1977 helped spearhead the revolution, a charge continued on this, her fifth solo disc after previous careers with the influential jazz/pop ensemble Ten Wheel Drive and the ground-breaking all-girl Goldie & The Gingerbreads before that. 1978's Urban Desire is part of an important trilogy of Ravan recordings, including it's sequel - also on Hip-0 Select - 1979's ...And I Mean It and concluding with Ronnie Spector's Siren from 1980 - as much a Genya Ravan record as it is Ronnie's. Two Joe Droukas compositions, "Shadowboxing" and "The Sweetest One", bring to mind The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers phase. In fact, "Shadowboxing" could nearly be considered the great lost track from the Stones 1972 masterpiece. The Droukas/Ravan team doesn't stop there, though; for "The Knight Ain't Long Enough" is more than a clever double-entendre, it creatively reflects Mott The Hoople during their wonderful Brain Capers period - the moment before Bowie got hold of them - and a style that La David emulated often. Genya also puts dynamics in sequencing the material; "Do It Just For Me" comes off a lot more subtly than the rocking disc-opener, "Jerry's Pigeons." Rock's pioneering lady spins the songs like a disc jockey; "Shot In The Heart" - as with most of the record - adaptable for college or mainstream radio. The Lou Reed duet on "Aye Co'lorado" is just the prescription for anyone who wanted to demolish their stereo every time an Eagles song came on. And to Velvet Underground fans even further, Genya does a Gospel-meets-the-street version of John Cale's superb "Darling I Need You." - $13.36

Twice in a Lifetime : Warner Home Video

Harry MacKenzie (Gene Hackman, in a rare domestic outing) has just turned 50. The steelworker lives near Seattle and roots for the Seahawks. He and his wife of 30 years, Kate (Ellen Burstyn), have three kids, Jerry (Darrell Larson), Helen (Ally Sheedy), and Sunny (Amy Madigan, Oscar-nominated for her fiery performance). On the surface, life is good. Truth is, Harry's bored--until be meets barmaid Audrey (Ann-Margret). Written by Colin Welland (Chariots of Fire) and directed by Bud Yorkin (Divorce, American Style), Twice in a Lifetime takes an even-handed look at the consequences of divorce. Harry doesn't just shatter Kate's world when he takes up with another woman, but his entire family. The film works double-time as an ode to a city that no longer exists, as when Harry and Audrey take in a game at the Kingdome. Featuring a score by Pat Metheny and title track by Paul McCartney. --Kathleen C. Fennessy - $6.41

The Fast and the Furious (Widescreen Tricked Out Edition) : Universal Studios

A guilty pleasure with excess horsepower, The Fast and the Furious efficiently combines time-honored male fantasies (hot cars, hot women, hot action) into a vacuous plot of crystalline purity. It's trash, but it's fun trash, in which a hotshot Los Angeles cop named Brian (Paul Walker) infiltrates a gang of street racers suspected of fencing stolen goods from hijacked trucks. The gang leader is Dom (Vin Diesel), ex-con and reigning king of the street racers, who lives for those 10 seconds of freedom when his high-performance "rice rocket" (a highly modified Asian import) hurtles toward another quarter-mile victory. Racing is street theater for a lawless youth subculture, and Dom is a star behind the wheel--charismatic, dangerous, and protective toward his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), who's attracted to Brian as the newest member of Dom's car-crazy team.

Director Rob Cohen treats this like Roman tragedy for MTV junkies, pushing every scene to adrenaline-pumping extremes; when his camera isn't caressing a spectrum of nitrous oxide-enhanced dream machines, it's ogling countless slim 'n' sexy race babes. The undercover-cop scenario cheaply borrows the split-loyalty theme perfected in Donnie Brasco; a rival Asian gang adds mystery and menace; and digital trickery is cleverly employed to explore the fuel-injected innards of the day-glo racecars. It's about as substantial as a perfume ad, but just as alluring, and for heavy-metal maniacs of any age, Diesel's superblown '69 Charger proves that Detroit muscle never goes out of style. --Jeff Shannon - $5.85