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Drake, Albert Dee was born on March 26, 1935 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Albert Howard and Hildah Leone Drake.
(A hot rod enthusiast and builder since the early 1950s, A...)
A hot rod enthusiast and builder since the early 1950s, Albert "Bud" Drake has experienced rod and custom car culture to the fullest. This collection of his columns from Rod Action and Goodguys Gazette over the past quarter century, also incorporating several unpublished pieces, offers a wealth of historical information and insights. The colorful writing illuminates the people, machines, movies and cultural events that shaped hot rod culture.
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(This book is a collection of Bud Drakes columns from Rod ...)
This book is a collection of Bud Drakes columns from Rod Action and Goodguys Gazette for which he has written, respectively, the columns Fifties Flashback and Flashing Back. Within it is a wealth of historical essays and colorful writing on the people, machines, movies and cultural events that shaped hot rod culture.
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( Was the Fifties your decade? Relive the memories, the o...)
Was the Fifties your decade? Relive the memories, the optimism, the cars and the lifestyle of those early, more innocent years. Or, experience for the first time the custom-car craze, the horsepower race; when Detroit built terrific cars and America was the greatest country in the world! It's all here - car shows, drive-ins, drag strips, movies, comics, Clymer Books, Bonneville drop-tank racers, TV shows, hot rods, car hops, Ricky Nelson, Beaver Cleaver, and much more!
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(In this collection of 46 essays, many of which were previ...)
In this collection of 46 essays, many of which were previously published in Old Cars Weekly and Goodguys Gazette, Drake examines a boy's desire to be mobile. He takes the two great themes of the 20th Century, motion and competition, motivation of the great builders of the Industrial Age, and brings it to a personal level. These essays, some memoir, some lyrical, start with the chemicals that imprinted brains -- gasoline, hydraulic brake fluid, exhaust -- and caused young men to wrap their lives around machines as surely as any drug. Next comes the Wheel: the baby carriage, the scooter, the sidewalk flyer. Before there was power there was gravity and the soap box racer, when every driver had to reinvent the Wheel. And of course, a moment that looms large for every rider: that first bicycle. There are essays analyzing reading material: anthropomorphic fables, the Motor Boys books, the comic strips, True Magazine, wartime reading fare. Some define a time period: buying a squirrel knob, painting tires white, overhauling an engine in the driveway on a weekend in order to get to work on Monday, painting a car with a brush. Some are unsentimentally frank: a boy and his father getting a 1934 Terraplane home on a winter night, the father who refuses a gift, the boy riding home on a runningboard, the group of naked high school boys who discuss the merits of new cars after a shower in the locker room. Some highlighted historical moments: a piece on a new 1941 DeSoto and a 1942 Mercury, the problem of rationing gasoline and rubber, the use of old cars as bomb shelters in case of an atomic bomb attack. Among the memoirs are essays about a family camping in 1937, traveling to North Dakota in a 1935 Packard and to California in a new 1941 Chevrolet; it is not possible to separate the machine from family history or even global events. An essay on the Fisher Body Craftsman Guild Competition, where boys were asked to build models for a scholarship, brought reality to dreams.
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(Rods & Customs, Showcars & Dragsters and a bunch of rewor...)
Rods & Customs, Showcars & Dragsters and a bunch of reworked daily drivers, the kinds of cars you saw on the street in the 1950s, with skirts, duals, lake pipes, Hollywood hub caps, DeSoto bumpers, nosed and decked, frenched, long shackles, engine swaps and even a couple chopped tops. Remember how it was with an author who lived it. Why get your information second or third hand? Informed captions, written before everything about those halcyon days is forgotten!.
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Drake, Albert Dee was born on March 26, 1935 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Albert Howard and Hildah Leone Drake.
Student, Portland State College, 1956—1959. Bachelor in English, University Oregon, 1962. Master of Fine Arts in English/Writing, University Oregon, 1966.
Research assistant Oregon Research Institute University Oregon, Eugene, 1963-1964, research assistant department English, 1964-1965, teaching assistant department English, 1965-1966. Assistant professor English Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1966-1970, associate professor English, 1970-1980, professor English, 1980-1992, professor English emerita, since 1992. Editor Stone Press, Okemos, Michigan, 1968-1990.
Editorial associate Writer's Digest School, Columbus, Ohio, 1973-1975. Director Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop, East Lansing, Michigan, 1983, 88, 89, 90.
(Rods & Customs, Showcars & Dragsters and a bunch of rewor...)
(This book is a collection of Bud Drakes columns from Rod ...)
(In this collection of 46 essays, many of which were previ...)
(A hot rod enthusiast and builder since the early 1950s, A...)
( Was the Fifties your decade? Relive the memories, the o...)
Corporation United States National Guard, 1953-1960.
Married, 1960 (divorced 1985). Children: Moss, Monica, Barbara Ellen.