Ask the ExpertOn this page, you can ask a personal question of our Expert of the Month by clicking the red line below and typing out your question. PLEASE LIMIT QUESTIONS TO HOT ROD HISTORY AND TRADITIONAL BUILDS. Within approximately two weeks, we will post on the website our Expert's or Pioneer's answers to as many questions as we can handle. This will be in the form of an audio message that everyone can listen to and that can best be heard on a PC with a sound card. Thanks for participating! The dry lakes were Art Chrisman's proving ground and, with his brother Lloyd in a ‘34 Ford coupe, they exceeded 140 mph before World War II. After the War, the Chrisman Garage in Compton began producing serious competition machines. Art became one of the five charter members of the 200 MPH Club driving Chet Herbert's “Beast”. His success on the drag strips was, for a time, unrivaled. In 1955, at Bakersfield, he went 140 mph in the famous “No. 25” that had originally belonged to Leroy Neumayer. Art and team built the Hustler I, powered by a 392-cid Chrysler engine, the first car to reach 180 mph. Throughout the 1950's and 60's, Art competed with the best fuelers in the sport. 
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Dear Sir,
I am a hot rod history junkie and love to hear old stories about the how and when of the beginings of this stuff.
One car in my particular inteest is the fabled 777 streamier from Denver, Colorado built by Bill Kenz at the Kenz and Leslie V8 shop.
My questiopn to you is what relationship did you have to Bill Kenz?
I am trying to gather anough infomation to wrtie a book about the Bill and Roy.
I hope that you do not mind sharing any information with me.
Thank you-
Mark Karol-Chik
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Does anyone have any information on the 32 roadster pictured on page 92/93 in Robert Genat's book " the birth of hot rodding". Any info at all would be appreciated...Thanks
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DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION AS TO WHAT HAPPENED OR ANY PHOTOS, OF THE FATAL CRASH OF LES RITCHEY. aT FONTANA DRAG STRIP ON MAY 2 1966.
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I believe my grandfather, Harry David Atwood, was involved in hot rod racing in Utah in the 1930's. (Perhaps earlier?) Where would I search for information about this?
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Greetings,
I’m doing a little history in the hot rod eras of the 1930 and ‘40s, and am having difficulty finding issues of SCTA Racing News for those years. None of the libraries seem to have them.
Question: do you know where I might find and be able to use these back issues in the Los Angeles area or its suburbs?
Any help on this question will be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Roger Harrell; rhharrell@aol.com
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When I was in High school back in that late 1940's my "Bible" for the construction of my first hot-rod was two manuals from "California Bill"
on how to hot rod your Ford V-8, and how to install a V-8 in a Model "A" for $1.00 each. Who was/is California Bill and is their any printed material about this man?
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Mr. Montgomery, any chance you'll be putting out any more of your books?
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