When you're a kid in a hot-rod, you just wanta GO!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paperback Cover Cavalcade 7] Reference

He had a beautiful open-engine hot-rod convertible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crazy Loco Love] Reference

And a so-called practical hot-rod just didn't make sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Cars That Baffle Consumers] Reference

But it wasn't a hot-rod, it was a Maverick she named Sally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cruel Deception]

A handyman hot-rod fan built it, guess where, in his garage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 2, 2008] Reference

Start your engines: the age of the hot-rod hybrid has arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [GREEN & MEAN] Reference

“Hey, you trying out for the hot-rod circuit or something?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference

Doug sez: The whole, devil-girl, hot-rod stuff taken to a new level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 1, 2001 - July 7, 2001 Archives] Reference

He left for MPLS today on the little black hot-rod, the 2-wheeled one.    From Wordnik.com.  [grizmom Diary Entry] Reference

For our list, we decided to simplify things by featuring only hot-rod brand names.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hottest Family Cars 2006] Reference

Great Garages Born-again rodder considers it his duty to preserve hot-rod history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Munz: The final trustee] Reference

Daimler A hot-rod version, the C63 AMG, with a 451-horsepower V8 is coming in April.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mercedes-Benz C-Class] Reference

Teenage boys, with youth's ready affinity for new technology, would hot-rod Gingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Success of Failure] Reference

In high school I did inventory for a department store and worked for a hot-rod store.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amazing Stuff...to me at least | The Stiletto Gang] Reference

It's the story of a taxicab whose son disgraces the family by wanting to be a hot-rod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Needs Cars?] Reference

It reminded me of nothing so much as the ending of a hot-rod novel by Henry Gregor Felsen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-01-24] Reference

According to Peck, Henderlong is a genius with hot-rod engines and cutting-edge unicycles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough-Terrain Unicycling] Reference

Irwin was a hot-rod guy who entered art school in the late '40s after he got out of the army.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Daddy Of Light And Space] Reference

Like the guys in the '60s did, people with these cars now hot-rod them to make them go faster.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 29, 2009] Reference

(Oh, and there's also a hot-rod version with a 451-horsepower V8 coming in April, the C63 AMG.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting a C: A Benz That Fails to Impress] Reference

But I admit that this fiery hot-rod pickup, with its Jughead-and-Veronica styling, is an eye-catcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [GUYS PICKUP ON THIS] Reference

And some enthusiasts have been withholding judgment until the hot-rod XKR model arrives to top the XK range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazzing Up Jaguar] Reference

This model and the next two in the slide show are hot-rod versions of Mercedes' flagship S-class sedan range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Most Popular Cars for Men ©...] Reference

GM rolled out three hot-rod Pontiacs, including a car-cum-pickup truck inspired by the El Camino from the 1970s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heavy Metal?] Reference

It doesn't keep the range fresh by peppering it with convertible, wagon or hot-rod derivatives, and as the G ages, demand cools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best-Selling Luxury Cars 2006Best-Selling Luxury Cars of 2006] Reference

They scripted a spot that cast the Accord as a hot-rod family car, careering along slick city streets and winding country roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [GREEN & MEAN] Reference

And its 265-horsepower V-6 didn't pack the punch I've grown used to in other hot-rod models from Nissan, like the Infiniti FX45.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Test: Nissan Maxima 2004] Reference

The M6 drop-top will use the V-10 engine from the company's M6 hardtop and M5 hot-rod sedan, mated to a seven-speed transmission.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sexiest BMW] Reference

This hot-rod Odyssey had two racing seats with race harnesses, no air bags - and no dashboard, with just a racing digital display.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 SEMA - A few of our favorite things] Reference

Audi's recently overhauled, entry-level A4 range has a hot-rod wagon variant, the S4, with 340 hp and a zero-to-60 time of 5.3 seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hottest Family Cars 2006] Reference

When Steve Earle sings of his hot-rod, "I'll be blastin 'down some blacktop, jus' my baby an 'me," he has a near-perfect "Sir Gawain" line.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fable of the Round Table] Reference

The room shared by brothers Rudy, 6, and Dallas, 5, has a hot-rod theme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from The Gainesville Sun] Reference

GALAX - A Galax woman has a real hot-rod for a car, thanks to her playing a Virginia.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for WSLS 10] Reference