Every country has hotrods, in Europe, Sweden, Germany, hundreds.
I went to a friend's in Hat Yai, he said come and look at this, jumped in the car, drove through some wild country to a shed, in it was a 1940's Ford with what looked like a Ford 289/301 V8 with 2 x 4 barrel Holleys on a tunnel ram, a couple of Thai guys messing with it, wow, I thought....