 "Hot
Rod Pin-ups"
by David Perry
Motorbooks, 2005
Most red-blooded American
bachelors will tell you the two greatest inventions of the 20th Century
weren't the television or the jet plane. Not that those things are bad,
but the two innovations that have had the most profound effect on the modern
male are the hot rod and the pin-up. Fast, loud cars and pretty gals...what
could be more central to a man's universe? Two objects of desire. Two objects
that men will do whatever it takes to have. They are the yin and yang of
a bachelor's existence.
Photographer David
Perry knows this. With his camera he is able to capture to
true essence of both the hot rod and the pin-ups girl. There's just something
that gets the blood boiling when you match chrome curves with the curve
of the hip or the bend of the knee. Gleaming metal and fishnetted flesh...it’s
a wicked combination. And Perry knows how to bring this all
to life. In his latest book, titled--what else?--Hot Rod Pin-ups,
Perry
draws out the gritty and dangerous energy of the cars while at the same
time showing retro kittens in their fully stylized pin-up beauty. It's
one of those books where you don't know which to drool over first--the
sexy bombshell or the slick hot rod.
But this book is more
than just pretty gals and fast cars. There are several essays from the
likes of Robert Williams, Eric Kroll, and Perry
himself. The essays all touch on the intersection of cars and women in
a guy's formative years. They both seem to be touchstones in each guy's
personal mythology. There always seems to be a memory of one hot gal and
one cool car that burns its way into a man's brain forever. And it is quite
possible that this book will help bring back those memories or maybe create
some memories for the next generation!
David Perry
on the July 2005 edition of WILL-Radio's program Sidetrack.
You can hear the archive here.
(The interview is about 45 minutes into the show.)
As a final side note:
the gal on the cover of the book is none other than one of our Modern
Day Femme Fatales, Miss Heidi
Van Horne.
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