IN THE EARLY 1970S, I went to a wrecking yard (in San Bernardino) to get a pair of front brake drums and backing plates. These were to be obtained from an old post-World War II Ford, and would fit on my 32 roadster. I inquired at the front desk about the availability of these parts and experienced the following reaction.
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GIRLS+CARS they go together like PBR and barbecue. Like humbuckers on a hollow-body and pinstriping on primer. Since 1991, David Perry has been feverishly distilling this timeless truth with an eye like no other. From Sac Town to Mirage, from O.C. to Paso, Perry's photography of drag-strip groupies, girlie grease monkeys, and backseat berries qualifies as much more than your run-of-the-mill newsstand automotive cheesecake. Perry evokes the great pin-up masters Vargas and Petty, the demented swagger of psychobilly, and the trashy glamour of JD pulp fiction, B-movies, and that dusty stack of stag mags behind your granddaddy's toolbox. Along with Perry's finest riffs on the cars-n-chicks theme, Not Rod Pin-ups features commentary by lowbrow-art and hot rodding icon Robert Williams, Bay Area noir maestro Jim Nisbet, cultural commentator I:ric Kroll, retro-rod scribe Kevin Thomson, and Gearhead Records honcho Mike kaVella. For good measure, many of the cars and customs featured come from the shops of acknowledged masters like Vern Tardel, Salinas Boy Cole Foster, and "King of Kustomizers" George Barris.
