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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It was in the mid-1950s times were hard and we lived in a very small one-bedroom apartment. To make a little extra money dad had a second job at a magazine store and one day he brought home an issue of Hot Rod magazine for me. It was several months old but that didn’t matter to me at all. I was in third grade and didn’t even read English yet. Later it was not hard for my English teacher to understand where my newfound interest in the language came from because I wrapped my books with the covers from Hot Rod magazine. I wanted to be able to read at least the picture captions so I decided to study the English books and pay attention to the teacher. Soon I found out that other guys in school were also reading American car magazines at home. One of them Anders became my good friend. Some years later Anders had told me that two local guys were working on some hot rods and custom cars. The first thing we did was go over there and check what was going on. They took us to a nearby barn where they were building their hot rods. One was a T-roadster with an Olds Rocket motor and the other was a chopped-and soon- to-be-channeled 32 Ford coupe. The experience was overwhelming. and I went home feeling like I had kissed Marilyn Monroe. Those two hot rodders were Bo and Sven Sand- berg. A few years later in the mid- 1960s Bo organized the first hot rod T This picture was ta mentor Bo Sand Christmas card for Co Even if the editonal o this bad looking