National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) or the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA).
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And this weekend the track will host the biggest event on its annual calendar, the National Hot Rod Association's Toyota Summernationals.
The regular Prius is no hot rod, to be sure, but it comports itself around town and on the highway with a certain lithe assurance.
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Once you've got a hot rod, you are supposed to show it off, in the noble tradition of the car buffs that Tom Wolfe once wrote about.
The National Hot Rod Association, which represents professional drag-racing, has also tried to help, encouraging affiliated tracks to open their facilities to street-racers for safe, controlled contests.
Like a teenager still excited about his new hot rod, the 54-year-old executive boasts about Endeavour's tendency to thrust her knifelike bow almost completely out of the water.
D. from Rutgers University in ceramic science and engineering, Brinker loaded up his hot rod BMW coupe and headed west to a staff appointment at Sandia National Labs, the engineering sister of Los Alamos.
Aided by such talent, in 2003 Shark became world champion at 14 in the Melges 24, a five-person hot rod of a sailboat that can do 20 knots-plus with a stiff wind behind it.
Thanks to the technical and industry credibility of hot rod pioneer and NORRA executive Don Francisco, the unique Baja competition quickly rose to prominence via the participation of stars like of Parnelli Jones, James Garner and Steve McQueen.
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The only saving grace is the hot-rod that is the (deep breath) Amazon Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE.
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All of that means these future cars, like their hot-rod ancestors of the 1950s, are graded on style as much as speed.
Better yet for the manufacturers, they don't have to deal with support costs on a lot of these boxes because the gamers gleefully break their warranties in pursuit of the most tricked-out, custom hot-rod-PC money can buy.
She was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in gasoline, then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen, national police spokesman Dominic Kakas said.
Gonzalez was cheered on by his own band of raucous fans in the day's final match on Rod Laver Arena, and they were sensing a minor upset when the Chilean hit a hot streak to take a two sets to one lead.
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