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ON THE SCENE - The RPM Nationals
Hot Rod
|April 2020
Right around the time this very magazine was formed, hopped-up flathead V8s were considered the pinnacle of speed.
Hot rodders would take to the local streets and strips to pit their creations against one another to see who was fastest. While the cars and horsepower figures have changed dramatically since then, the spirit is still the same.
This story is from the April 2020 edition of Hot Rod.
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