The second World War ended the Southland's isolation. The draft sent native rodders, bearing snapshots of their highboys or modifieds, all across the country. Non-natives, who trained at El Toro, Camp ...
In 1930, Lee Chapel set aside space in his Broken Drum Auto Salvage—on San Fernando Road south of Glendale—for his first "speed shop." The fenderless car at right was a Chevy "single-seater" that he ...