Hot rods, muscle cars, cruisers, all sorts of awesome rides and people.

豪车、肌肉车、巡洋舰，各种好玩的游乐设施和人。

They are about like your normal hot rod, your normal race car.

它们很像你们的普通改装车，常见的赛车。

Hot rods are not regular cars, however.

然而，热棒不是普通汽车。

Hot rods are used in what is called " drag racing."

热棒用于所谓的“飙车” 。

Now remember, this is a story about hot rods, about very fancy cars that go fast.

现在请记住， 这是一个关于热棒的故事，关于开得很快的非常漂亮的汽车。

" Happy Days" was a nostalgic, soapy comedy about high school kids making out, driving hot rods and working in the family hardware store.

《快乐时光》是一部怀旧的肥皂剧，讲述了高中生亲热、驾驶 “hot rods”改装车和在家庭五金店工作的故事。

Usually, in the United States, hot rods are made from American cars such as Chevrolet and Dodge.

通常， 在美国，热棒是由雪佛兰和道奇等美国汽车制成的。

Why, seven dollars could buy you a hot rod and a jar of hair grease in those days.

为什么，在那些日子里，七美元可以给你买一根热棒和一罐发油。

The engines that are now used in hot rods have become much more sophisticated in the last 60 years.

在过去的 60 年里，现在用于热棒的发动机变得更加复杂。

When I play on a drum set, I either use drum sticks or a bundle of sticks that are really small called hot rods, or brushes.

我在打架子鼓时，我会用鼓槌或是一种小的束棒。

A " hot (hot) rod (rod)" is a car that is used for racing – for going fast in a competition against another car.

“热（热）杆（杆）”是一种用于赛车的汽车——用于在与另一辆汽车的比赛中快速行驶。

These cars eventually got the name of " hot rods." Well, Wolfe's story about these hot rods was first published in Esquire in 1963 with a very unusual title.

这些汽车最终获得了“热棒” 的名称。嗯，沃尔夫关于这些热棒的故事于 1963 年首次发表在 Esquire 上， 标题非常不寻常。

They may look like Matchbox cars from the air, but they are full scale classics and hot rods gathered in the parking lot of the Tupelo Automobile Museum.

它们从空中看可能像火柴盒汽车，但它们是聚集在图珀洛汽车博物馆停车场的全尺寸经典车和热棒车。

So, Wally Parks started this new organization to, as he said it, " create order" – to make things organized for the people in the hot rod community.

因此，Wally Parks 成立了这个新组织， 正如他所说，“创造秩序” ——为热棒社区的人们组织起来。