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The best Hot Rod magazine cover of the first decade?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Jive-Bomber, Sep 20, 2011.

  1. Wow! How can you pick a best one?
     
  2. onekoolkat1950
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    neat, i did not know that.
     
  3. couverkid
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    Oct.57 Lloyd bakan 32 coupe women in swimsuits. Hot
     
  4. J. Fitzhugh
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    I still love the Piesron April 50 cover. It is the only early Hot Rod that I have framed in my office and on display next to the GMT model.
     
  5. Strittan
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    Although I like all of 'em in one way or another, I'd say that October 1950 is my favorite. Awesome thread by the way.

    Made a wallpaper I thought I'd share (1080 or 720 pixels).
     

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  6. FOURTYDLX
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    Very cool, there all neat,but I like Scotty's the best, ask Cub B.
     
  7. flamingokid
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    My fave,if there is actually one I actually favor over the others.
     
  8. This is my best & first Hot Rod mag that truly ate my brain, at the time I was an 18 yr old biker riding a 1950 Triumph Trophy. I didn`t know such beaut cars exsited. Im now 71 yrs young & just finishing my 5th & last rod a 35 Ford pk up. Is has been a great hobby to me, thanks guy`s for starting it all.........[​IMG]
     
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  9. 50Fraud
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    These are the two that I first thought of. The Calori coupe, because it's such a beautiful car, his girl seems to like it, and I wanted to be him!

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    And the Chrisman coupe, just because it was so mind-bendingly radical.

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    There were many, many others that were special to me: Bob Arner and his buddies pushing the former Ralph Scheck streamliner; Tom Medley, welding on his model A; the guys in the Dick Flint roadster getting excited about the girl in the crosswalk -- it was a great era. Thanks for recalling it!
     
  10. MUNDSTER
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    There are so many covers to love, but the one I like best is from 1958, with a very young Fred Stoke, sitting in his Caddy powered dragster. Anyone know the month?
     
  11. ANDEREGG TRIBUTE
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    Completely biased favorite......

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  12. Nobey
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    Oct. 1950 would be My pick. Thanks for the post......
     
  13. Fleetside
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    Glad to know I wasn't the only one with exacty the same thought.
     
  14. Mine too.
    The Month & Year I was born. :D

    PS. A good thread revival I thought.
     
  15. firingorder1
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    This is supposed to be a traditional hot rod forum but did anyone notice there were, even among the competition cars, no rusty, dented, patina'd heaps of shit? So why is rusty, patina'd crap considered and accepted as traditional?
     
  16. Don's Hot Rods
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    There is a very simple explanation. The magazine ran pictures of the cream of the crop, not cars that some kid in Bumshoe, Idaho built on a limited budget in his Dad's garage. I was there in those years and saw lots of primered, patina'd, slightly shabby hot rods and customs driving around. In fact, the very first really finished hot rod I ever saw was a 32 coupe that migrated from California to Pennsylvania somehow. It was done top to bottom, and had chrome everywhere.

    The guys in California seemed to have more money to spend on their cars than us working class guys back east, and they also had a lot more places to go to have custom work done.

    But even according to this 1960 HRM cover, some cars they featured were a little rusty (Roadster top left) :D

    Don

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  17. Because being lazy will never go out of style!!!
     
  18. Mazooma1
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  19. Nobey
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    Thats not a real Hot Rod cover! April of 1960 Featured Tony Nancy &
    22 JR. Must be photo shopped....
     
  20. Shaggy
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    I cant pick a favorite, but this does remind me why in my opinion HRM was the best, the Don Francisco tech articals, a bunch of the other mags had guys that were completely full of shit(rodding and restyling comes to mind) but he KNEW his stuff and i really leard some stuff reading his stuff. Still one of my favorite books i own is his 1957 " how to build a chevy v-8" manual, and i'm building a 283 to his suggestions in it too for my model T
     
  21. Don's Hot Rods
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    See, that was the difference......you guys were making $ 1.40 pumping gas and I was only making 80 cents. :D


    Don
     
  22. Mazooma1
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    well, that explains it....:)
     
  23. A buck fourty Doug? Damn, the first two summers I worked in a hot machine shop, Dad only paid me a buck an hour! :eek:
     
  24. A Boner
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    January 1955....pic of a slick roadster.....and at the top of the cover, Racer Brown was on to something that changed hot rodding forever!
     
  25. tomcurnow
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    The January 1958 Hot Rod cover inspired me in 1958, to the point I built a Tribute to Cannon and the Chrimam Brothers
     
  26. dan c
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    my vote is for ed iskendarian in his "cucaracha" gow job--may '48.
     

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