Remembering back to the birth of hot rodding, young pioneers worked with great diligence and passion to engineer cars that would be able to gather great speeds and cheat the wind at the lakes and eventually on dragstrips. Regardless of which coast you hailed from, the calling for performance was the same in an age where you couldn't pick up a magazine and make a call to order up just the right part. It was a time when engineering was king and frills like chrome, fancy paint, and decadent interiors weren't even thought of as having a place on their stripped-down racers. As the years passed, many of those young pioneers moved on to help create the world of hot rodding as we know it today, bringing forth their brilliance with the development of parts, accessories, and safety items that many of us still use to this date. Traditional hot rods have long influenced countless youthful minds to create something that would allow them to be able express themselves in a fashion where time would stand still-even if it was just for a moment. Today's hard-core movement in rodding has gathered incredible speed in recent years with young clubs across the country stepping back in time and recapturing the hobby's original focus. They too share the passions to design and build era-correct real-deal rods that evoke the styles of the past by refusing to let it be forgotten. If you are on the East Coast, one of the most recognized names in the movement happens to be the Alter Boys, whose style and dedication to rodding sets them apart from the rest.
Having ventured to many events over the years, the Alter Boys often came back noting that they often had some fun, but imagined just how stoke it would be to create a lifestyle-driven event where the hip could arrive late and stay on 'til the wee morning hours while being entertained in a place they could call their own. Well, we're here to tell that, for the second year in a row, they have forged on with an end-of-season bash that should keep everyone talking long after it was over! Coolness for this gig was at the forefront in designing it, and what better place to have it than amongst countless old brick factory buildings where you could only find it if you heard about it through the pipeline-that pipeline being by handbill's at certain special events and by ads in 'zines that cater to the hard-core community. If you dared to show up with a billet-laden Pro Street-urged or hi-tech beast, you were welcome to park it outside (for fear that the A-Boys would take their famous two-sided axe to it!) and venture into the land of gow-jobs and kustoms to check out the scene.