Hot Rod Bundle

Rev your engines and dive into the high-octane world of Henry Gregor Felsen’s classic hot rod novels—where chrome gleams, rivalries roar, and every race could end a life. 

From the street-charged tension of Hot Rod to the grand theft auto drama of Rag Top, this electrifying series captures the pulse of 1950s and 1960s teen car culture with authentic mechanical detail and heart-pounding action. But beneath the burnouts and bravado lies something deeper: stories of friendship, pride, romance, and the hard lessons learned when speed outruns judgment. Perfect for fans of vintage Americana, coming-of-age drama, and classic car lore, Felsen’s novels deliver timeless thrills with real emotional horsepower.

This action-packed set includes the following:

Hot Rod

Seventeen-year-old Bud Crayne built the fastest cars in town and drove his high-octane machines on the ragged edge. His need for speed would prove dangerous to him and the people around him, including his wannabe starlet girlfriend, La Verne, and the kids in his small hometown of Avondale, all of whom were dragged down his path to high-horsepower hell.   

Street Rod

Sixteen-year-old Ricky Madison is the only boy in Dellville without his own hot rod, and he is tired of bumming rides from his friends. Going against his parents' wishes, he uses his savings to buy a car of his own: a junker that he is determined to turn into the fastest, sleekest racer on the road. Wild nights of highway racing, pranking unsuspecting drivers, and competing with his buddies quickly turn the town against him and the other teenage drivers. But Ricky has an idea that will redeem himself and his friends in the eyes of the town, all while showing them how far he can really go with his coupe.

Crash Club

Every year a new fad makes its mark at Raccoon Forks High: often noisy, outlandish, expensive, or silly, but never dangerous or destructive. At this sleepy school, even the drag racing fad was comparatively tame . . . until David "Outlaw" Galt transferred from Capital City High. Usurping Mike Revere's position as the best boy with the best car—and stealing the girl who went with it—Outlaw set off a power struggle the likes of which Raccoon Forks had never seen. But Mike was willing to drive his way to victory, no matter the cost.

Road Rocket

Can a teenager afford a car? Even a cheap old one?

Woody Ahern thought he could. He had a job after school, he had saved a little money, and, as he pleaded with his father, the main reason he and the other members of his car club wanted a car was so that they could work on it.

Woody would get his car—for forty dollars. He named it Sidekick, and from the moment the thirteen-year-old wreck became his very own, Woody lavished on it all his love and devotion. He was sure that when it was done it would be the most beautiful car imaginable. He could even see himself driving Sandra to the spring dance . . . but it would take a lot of work before Sidekick was safe to drive. And before that work was complete Woody would come to learn a great deal—not only about cars, but also about human relationships and his own goals in life.

Fever Heat

The breakneck story of a wild breed of men—and their thrill-hungry women. The tearing shriek of metal against metal, the stink of gasoline fumes, the sweat of men working all night in the pit, and the cheap perfume of the girls who hang around the track looking for kicks . . . this is the souped-up world of the stock-car racer. 

This is also the story of Ace Jones, a man whose flesh and soul have grown attuned to the battered iron heaps that are his whole life—and of a girl named Sandy, who sees in him the same fever that burned out her husband, the same wild streak that made her love him. Ace is running from his wild past when he comes across Town, a run-down spot in the middle of nowhere with a racetrack of its very own. Can Ace make an honest life for himself in Town, or will he crash and burn, taking Sandy with him?

Originally published under the pseudonym Angus Vicker, this is Felsen’s first rodding novel for adults.

Rag Top

Link Aller is a rebel and an outcast. The people of Dellville blame him for the racing-related death of young hot rodder Ricky Madison. Link knows it wasn't his fault, but if everyone is going to act like he is the bad guy, then he will show them just how bad he can be.

Virgil Kern is Dellville's hot shot new cop. Hardened and scarred from his years patrolling the big city, he has no problem roughing Link up if it means keeping him in line. But he thinks Link is going to back down, then he has another thing coming. Link will do whatever it takes to show him he means business, and when he meets Kern's sixteen-year-old daughter Darlene, he knows just how to get back at the old man.