Back in the '50s - when cars could be modified at home - this magazine was very helpful to the sport of hot rodding.
http://tinyurl.com/4fr89d
I drove a '34 Ford - with three carbs, a 3/4 race cam, dual exhausts and finned aluminum high-compression heads - to high school. Wish I still had it.
It looked a lot like this...
http://tinyurl.com/48x6qw
... but it was electric blue.