The best Hot Rod magazine cover of the first decade?

[paul hebert]

Wow! How can you pick a best one?

[onekoolkat1950]

neat, i did not know that.

[couverkid]

Oct.57 Lloyd bakan 32 coupe women in swimsuits. Hot

[J. Fitzhugh]

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.

[Strittan]

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).

[FOURTYDLX]

Very cool, there all neat,but I like Scotty's the best, ask Cub B.

[flamingokid]

Originally Posted by spiderdeville

hell ya

My fave,if there is actually one I actually favor over the others.

[Bri69]

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.........

[50Fraud]

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!



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



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!

[MUNDSTER]

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?

[ANDEREGG TRIBUTE]

Completely biased favorite......

[Nobey]

Oct. 1950 would be My pick. Thanks for the post......

[Fleetside]

Originally Posted by Greybeard

My all time favorite cover has always been Nov '49. Great car and even though she's probably 80, that's a right pretty girl with the movie star smile.... I always liked that "look"...

Glad to know I wasn't the only one with exacty the same thought.

[LIFESTYLZ]

Originally Posted by LSGUN

I love all of those covers but for me this IS the one:

Mine too.
The Month & Year I was born.

PS. A good thread revival I thought.

[firingorder1]

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?

[Don's Hot Rods]

Originally Posted by firingorder1

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?

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)

Don

[curbspeed]

Originally Posted by firingorder1

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?

Because being lazy will never go out of style!!!

[Mazooma1]

[QUOTE=Don's Hot Rods;796022

The guys in California seemed to have more money to spend on their cars than us working class guys back east..........
[/QUOTE]

Gee, I didn't know all of us California guys that worked at gas stations, grocery stores and as house painters weren't "working class".
I guess the $1.40 an hour I made was the wages of a movie star or a CEO.
Every single guy I knew in the 1960's came home from work, beat, hot, dirty and with just enough money to eat and save for their next car part they wanted to buy "someday".
I'll email all of them today to break the news to them that they "had it made in the shade" 50 years ago.

[Nobey]

Originally Posted by Don's Hot Rods

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)

Don

Thats not a real Hot Rod cover! April of 1960 Featured Tony Nancy &
22 JR. Must be photo shopped....

[Shaggy]

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