Kensington Maryland's Gasoline Alley Paperback – July 1, 2017

Kensington Maryland’s "Gasoline Alley" was a highly diverse, yet close-knit congregation of race car drivers, hot-rodders, and auto shops located in several rows of small warehouses behind the Kensington, Maryland, fire station. Numerous custom and specialized auto service and repair businesses were based in the Alley during the heyday of American hot-rodding, as were two of the Washington, DC, area’s most important hot rod clubs: the DC Dragons (1957 and 1958) and the Silver Spring Ram Rods (1962 to 1975). Among the many individuals who called the Alley home were some of the most innovative dragster, sports car, and stock car builders of the era, esteemed show car customizers, and race car drivers of every type. For several years in the 1960s, the Alley was the only place on the East Coast between New York and Miami where one could buy a Ferrari. Scrupulously researched and meticulously documented, Kensington Maryland’s Gasoline Alley, now in its third edition, is a scholarly cultural and technological history chock full of personal narratives and photos. Read more