First in America: coming of age in automobiles -- Customizing and souping-up in the 1930s and 40s -- Hot rod wars: youth, their elders, and defining maturity on the road -- Cruising and parking: the peer culture of teen automobility, 1950-70 -- Greasers and their rods: two generations of exclusion and pride -- Low, slow, and latino -- Last stand of the cruiser -- The slow and nostalgic versus the fast and the furious -- The end of youth car culture?
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