Special thanks to Tony Baron who donated this copy of the original SCTA HOT ROD EXPOSITION program. The first SCTA Hot Rod Exposition was held in January 1948 at the National Guard Armory in Los Angeles. The event was created by members of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) to demonstrate that their motivations were not the same as those of the outlaw crowd that the press portrayed them as.

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