American Accelerators: The Day The Hot Rodders Took On The Nazis and Won

Thanks to our sponsor DeleteMe! Get 20% off by going to https://joindeleteme.com/BrianLohnes and use code BrianLohnes to protect your privacy! This is a story about horsepower, record setting, slaying the beasts of the past and the formative years of both hot rodding and drag racing. It is a story of two homebuilt cars on an Air Force Base runway in 1958 chasing performance marks that had been set 21 years earlier on the German Autobahn by one of the most legendary race cars ever built. The story is about the vision of one man, a gamble that two teams of young American tinkerers with their machines could out-do the might of an entire governmentally backed effort, and how earning respect in the world is often about showing how dedication and hard work can overcome doubt. This is the story of how the California kids reset the world's outright acceleration records, did it with some drama, and proved to the world just what kind of people both hot rodders and drag racers are.