Their sons, Vinny Jr. and Richard, liked to race hot rods at a speedway in Old Bridge.

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He was wearing white chinos and a shiny black short-sleeved shirt, decorated with fluorescent images of vintage hot rods.

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As a child, Jackson rode dirt bikes and raced hot rods with his older brother and their motor-head friends.

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And most of all, maybe he gave teen-agers a culture of their own -- songs to dance to, hairstyles and clothes to copy, visions of hot rods to drive.

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Hot rods now are much more practical.

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"You have the rockabilly artists who are essentially having a great deal of fun and basically swapping out hot rods for spacecraft, " says Bill Geerhart, who runs a Web site and the Atomic Platters record label, both devoted to Cold War music.

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The pirated cubes are almost frictionless and bear as much resemblance to genuine Rubik's Cubes as Nascar hot-rods to family sedans.

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There will also be hot-rods, particularly Lakesters and Bonneville racers, and Indy Cars, as well as a special class for American-made motorcycles built prior to 1960.

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It is the same thing that makes the spent fuel rods hot.

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These rods, while not as hot as the ones currently in the reactors, also require cooling water to prevent overheating that could lead to a meltdown.

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