The First 200-MPH Hot Rod: So-Cal Streamliner

We’ve seen those faded old HOT ROD covers and photos of the fabled So-Cal streamliner in hot rod history books so often that, 65 years later, the Bonneville race car lacks a certain amount of impact—until you see it for real. The car that in 1950 became the first hot rod to run faster than 200 mph. The icon that appeared on three different covers of HOT ROD. To see and touch it more than 60 years after it was destroyed and sold for scrap would be impossible were it not for an obsession with spotlighting the efforts of early hot rod pioneers—and a singular aim to go back in time to see how the cars looked—carried out by Burton, Michigan’s Dan Webb. Dan agonized over those covers and old photographs and had hundreds of phone conversations with So-Cal Speed Shop founder Alex Xydias to create what was lost to time back in 1951.

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Photo Gallery: The First 200-MPH Hot Rod: So-Cal Streamliner – Hot Rod Magazine

Photo Gallery: The First 200-MPH Hot Rod: So-Cal Streamliner – Hot Rod Magazine