THIS 150 MPH HOT ROD CHANGED HISTORY
Aug 21, 2020
3 minutes
Tim Bernsau & Chris Shelton
Tim Sutton
Stu Hilborn (1917-2013) was one of the pioneers of hot rodding and the performance parts industry. He is best known for developing mechanical fuel-injection systems for race cars. Before he was famous, however, he was just a young hot rodder trying to go as fast as he could on the dry lakes of Southern California.
Several kinds of hot rods were racing on the lakes in the 1940s. Open-wheel cars with purpose-built custom streamlined bodies were
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