Olena (wintersakura)

The first hot rods emerged in the late 1930s and early 1940s, primarily in California. While it's hard to pinpoint a single creator, pioneers like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and the early members of the Southern California car culture were instrumental in shaping what we now recognize as hot rods. These enthusiasts modified their cars for speed and performance, often focusing on Ford models from the 1920s and 1930s. The trend gained momentum after World War II, leading to the hot rod culture we know today.

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Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups.

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The Toyota Mark II (Japanese: トヨタ・マークII, Hepburn: Toyota Māku Tsū) is a compact, later mid-size sedan manufactured and marketed in Japan by Toyota between 1968 and 2004. Prior to 1972, the model was marketed as the Toyota Corona Mark II. In most export markets, Toyota marketed the vehicle as the Toyota Cressida between 1976 and 1992 across four generations. Toyota replaced the rear-wheel-drive Cressida in North America with the front-wheel-drive Avalon. Every Mark II and Cressida was manufactured at the Motomachi plant at Toyota, Aichi, Japan from September 1968 to October 1993, and later at Toyota Motor Kyushu's Miyata plant from December 1992 to October 2000, with some models also assembled in Jakarta, Indonesia and Parañaque, Philippines as the Cressida.

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