Hot Rods The Top-5 HRM Covers ALL-TIME

I like this one....yeah, it's not near as pretty as yours, but it's the beginning of the golden age of going fast in hot rods.



I also like the cover with my car on it, too bad it doesn't look very good.

 

My favorites would be:
October 48 - The McGee Roadster
November 49 - The Calori Coupe
May 52 - The Flint Roadster
April 56 - Francisco flathead (spent many hours reading this series of articles)
April 63 - The McMullin Roadster

 

#1#2#3
#4#5 If you ask me an hour from now it will probably change! Hard to pick only five.
Actually this should be the best one!

 

Kool idea, here is my top five. (not in order)

 

Yes, the introduction of the most popular V8 engine ever!

 

The Dick Flint roadster one is my favorite. I
also like the one with Dean Lowe on it.

 

Racer Brown likes the SBC.....Sgt. Friday likes the red hi-boy roadster!

 

It's easy (or very hard) to pick from our glory days. Going forward though, April 69 and Nov 69 could be right smack in the middle of our world. Didn't drag em over but maybe later I'll play around and try it, but it's Wild Willie on a full cover for April and Bonnevile for Nov. Especially the Bonneville, except for 1 truck it could be discolored and look like 1962.

 

While I don't have the image, I thing that the 50th with Pete sitting on a drafting stool with 600 covers on the floor marked a milestone in our hobby.

 

I have had whole collections of HRM, from #1 to December, 1960: Both stolen from me, at different times. Frustration abounded, never knew who got 'em, itchy fist still abounds...
Present collection is rather limited, but favors the older issues ('48-'56)
Never got over the Flint Roadster ('52) cover...Don Oroscoe made the cover come to life again at the 50th AMBR show, immortalizing the shot.

 

Another good one!

 

In no particular order:










And @Ryan, if you haven't seen @deuce666's website, it's damn slick for magazine covers: http://99wspeedshop.com

 

It's kind of as if the HRM web site is there to make money, not to spread the gospel of traditional hot rodding. Oh, well.

 

I picked my Hot Rod magazine covers using this site..... http://www.99wspeedshop.com/

 

Haha! Man I would love to have somebody analyze these tea leaves . . . all 5 of yours are within 26 months of each other, April 1950 to May 1952. Cool. Might we be able to say that that is the Boss' Ground Zero?

 

Most of mine have already been posted (McMullen roadster, Flint roadster and Dragnet)... so here are my other two


I always chuckled at the "out of service" sign

 

Here's my five (in chronological order) ...

• Lee Chapel's Tornado (#711), the So-Cal Speed Shop (#2), and the Kenz & Leslie (#777) Streamliners on the cover of the October 1950 issue:
  
  
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• Don Williams' Coupe on the cover of the November 1951 issue:
  
  
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• Dick Flint's Roadster on the cover of the May 1952 issue:
  
  
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• @Dean Lowe's RPU on the cover of the January 1962 issue:
  
  
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• The Markley Bros. Belly Tank Lakester on the cover of the December 1962 issue:
  
  
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A few things I found interesting...

- To all the people who say a SBC is not traditional, I think a perusal of covers from mid 1955 on suggests otherwise.
- I would have never thought of the Falcon as having a huge impact on hot rodding, but it got quite a bit of cover space as soon as it came out; Feb 1960 - Road Test the new Falcon!!; March 1960 - Hot Rodding the Falcon; May 1960 - High Horsepower Falcons... Somebody at HRM had some Falcon Love.

 

I agree and I used that article to put a 283 in my 40 Ford five years later.

 

There were some great covers all the way up into the '60s. Then one in 2012? Working on their hot rod outside the autoparts store, those were the days....
Here's mine (not chronological)

 

I couldn't narrow it down below 30,try as I may.So I'll say,any cover with a belly tank or a streamliner

 

For anyone out in Hot Rod land I will sell my 1948 - 1979 originals entire collection for $10,000.
The condition is average or better....no real bad magazines. The 48's and 49's are super good.

 

Mine is the one with the hemi powered Ford 2-door sedan
Called The House of Fire

 

Oct. 1950
Nov. 1950
March 1953
Dec. 1953
Jan. 1962

 

What's not to like, yes?


And so many never gave up the real ways, this one shows that in spades:


I can't post it because it's O/T but "Grumpy's Toy", wheels up, new car, that one stuck with me and in fact I still have a copy.
This one too is a bit new, but 2 engines we know and love, gramps looking up at his grandson maybe, and I always had a 'thing' for those engine pictorial covers:

The cover with "The Grasshopper" is already shared above so I won't repost, but that one put my favorite hot rod colors in my head at a young age, and I think I was seeing it long after publication as I went through Dad's collection of books that he never threw away. A house fire in 1970 cost us all of them and remember vividly the sense of loss.

Those are 5 of my all time favorites staying as close to the board tenets as I can. If we were to roll back the rule there's easily 5 more that cover funny cars, some seriously winning front engine dragsters, and again with the engine issues later on exposing some of the most coveted of engines shamelessly exposed. Kool topic...

 

Stirring up the Pot again, huh?!