I tell people to donate 'em to the armed forces, but even that's not easy. So I end up with 'em instead :) Mustangs Unlimited went out of biz in my state, so i grabbed EIGHT soda boxes full of their car magazines. That wasn't even Hemmings. I wish I had room, I'd go back for more. And believe me, that's not the only free collections I've nabbed. I got three boxes of Street Rodder at a model contest, two boxes of Corvette Monthly at a car show that coughed up 4 boxes of Mopar Monthly for free. I figure if ANY of the tech articles save me money (and you know they will), hauling those boxes across parking lots on a hot day was worth it.
Before the internet, all I had was a Chilton or Hayne's manual and some advice from the guy behind the counter at the part's store (there was a time when most of those guys knew what they were talking about). The Chilton's manuals back then (before they were bought out by Haynes and turned to mush) taught you how to completely disassemble the entire car and rebuild it. Back then, I would never have imagined that I'd be able to find a video about how to do damned near anything in a few seconds...standing in front of my car...on a phone.
My highschool year book for 1984 had a picture of me in my english class reading Car Craft, caption was "odd text book". I still have all my old magazines on racks in my basement.
When I was a kid, I remember a magazine called "Cartoons" That mag featured nothing but cartoons and stories based on hot rods. Anyone should grab a copy if they see it. I'm keeping my eyes open!
I picked up my first issue of PHR in the early 80's. No love for Mopar in any of the magazines anywhere. Back in those days, any fkn idiot could build a Chevy. It took a special brand of weirdo to build a Mopar!
Still remember being a 15 year old Mopar fan and stumbling across my first issue of Chrysler Power magazine. It had a huge writeup on the Ramchargers and the Candymatic. Good stuff to a kid in the mid 80s
I got a drawing of a Boss 429 Mustang, done in the style of Dave "Big" Deal published in there, around 1975. I was about ten. They paid me 5 bucks for it!
I remember Krass and Bernie stories from the 70s. Glad Car Craft brought them back. That Trosley is a dirty old man, lol. He does raunchy cartoons for Hustler, too. So I've heard 🙄🤣!
I remember the car craft junk yard jewels issues, my dad used to bring them home to me when i was a kid. I had hot rod magazine, car craft, custom classic trucks subscriptions when I was in my late teens, I even helped a buddy of mine in the late 90's early 00's on some of Terry Cook's builds, his roadmaster wagon "chopped" and the 39 Lincoln zephyr "Scrape" reproduction fiberglass cars in the beginning. That was uprising of my hotrod custom car building era which came to a screeching halt in 04 due to my father passing. Love that you bring up this old stuff that brought smiles to our faces back then. I enjoy all of your content! Thanks!
As a kid growing up in the golden age of muscle or what they called them back then, "super" cars, completely agree with this titles. I still remember how my interest in them faded after '73 when muscle faded away and the hot new fad were vans and velour everything inside 'em. And who can forget the incredible ads that GM, Dodge, Plymouth and AMC did with their muscle cars from '66 to '72? Plymouth with their Rapid Transit System 2 page ads for 1970. So many great memories and thanks for bringing them back one more time! Spot on about High Performance cars, which had a real slant towards Baldwin-Motion and rightly so as they were making some incredible killer cars such as the Phase III Corvettes, Camaros and Chevelles; later on getting in on the V8 Vega game. A great one-two writing punch of Martyn L Schorr and Joe Oldham, too.
As soon as car craft would show up in the mail box I would stop what I was doing and read it cover to cover hotrod was ok but I always liked car craft better
I used to buy Car Craft, Super Chevy, and Chevy High Performance Magazines. I had a huge stack of them and got rid of them years ago. I really wish I'd held on to them now.
Absolutely lived for the magazines when I was too young to do anything else. I learned alot before I even got my first car. Grat to see others appreciate them as well.
Growing up through the 80s, I absolutely feasted on magazines like these. I would gobble up every article written by one Tony DeFeo, plus Richard Ehrenburg, Jerry Heasley and more. I had subscriptions to Mopar Muscle and High Performance Mopar, and I would buy several others off the shelf every month as well. These magazines are where I learned 95% of the muscle car history I now know, and I still have most of them packed up in plastic tubs in the basement. Must be time to go rooting through them again!
I came in on the tail end of the magazine era. I remember in middle school getting the new Autotrader and Corvette trader at the gas station every month and picking my cars out. Tell my wife all the time how I miss it.
@@77yogurt This is what I was taught in school; I use to read car/truck magazines, since I have read them several times, they are now used magazines. I guess that the millennials have changed the definition & use of the 2 different words. Just like they have to have everything scented or flavored, even water. Have you ever seen the movie "Idiocracy" because that's what the world is coming to. How long before they start putting Power Aid type of drinks on the crops to get them to grow.🙄🙄😲🤪🤡 Watch the trailers by clicking here > www.bing.com/videos/search?q=idiocracy+movie&docid=607989240084103690&mid=7CFD89052B79DB7F1A257CFD89052B79DB7F1A25&view=detail&FORM=VIREHT
Geeze, what a great segment....this 70+ year old used to sorta hide my hot rod magazine behind other books while reading at school...boy did you revive those memories....
I graduated with a kid who taught himself to read with playboy. Til grandma noticed he beat her to the mailbox the first of the month and figured out why. He missed 6 weeks midway through our senior year for a bleeding ulcer from swallowing his tobacco spit starting in 6th grade, they figured out he couldn't read when he came back and gave him his diploma.
My dad passed away a while back & i found a box with three years of Hot Rod mags from the 1960s. He had a subscription. The pictures and even the adds are so cool. Some of the adds would make killer posters to frame.
ANY and ALL information you give is welcomed and appreciated! I love watching your builds. But I think my favorite is when you talk about things that you have seen and done. Thank you for everything you do
Awesome topic! The other day I ran across a PAW catalog and I was instantly flooded with memories of being 15 years old and just reading that catalog cover to cover. Of course I had the typical car magazine subscriptions as well, but it was something about those catalogs. Just being able to build my dream from the pages of those books. Just awesome. On the same topic, this is the reason I started my little TH-cam channel. Because kids now don’t have what we had. There is a huge gap in knowledge and Information. I think channels like yours (and dare I say mine) fill that gap. Well done on this vid!
You described my life as a child to a T. I walked a mile each way once a month and spent my allowance on all those titles! Thanks for sparking great memories!
I'm only 30. But I still have boxes full of 4x4, jeep, dirtwheels and diesel power mags from the 90s until now. I love Looking back in my oldest mags to look at what was the big thing and style and feeling the nostalgia. They are like a time machine/capsule.
In my early 40’s we were moving again and my wife was on me to not keep my boxes of magazines. I thinned the collection by 80%,, tossing them into recycling. Really, really regret that. I had massive collection of Hot Rod, Car Craft, Road & Track, Motortrend, Mustang Monthly, Mustangs & Fords… I had several subscriptions. Couldn’t wait to get it in the mail and plop down to read. Thanks Tony.. memory lane!
Car Craft and Popular Hotrodding were my favorites. I started reading my older brothers Car Crafts from 1988 in 1990, and subscribed till the end. In 90, they were trying to make sense of the ECMs and work around them, and so was I. They also would build parts from the kitchen junk drawer. Finally, by 1992, the aftermarket quickly learned how to deal with modern cars and progressed to where we are today, and CC documented it. We left the stagnant 70s technology behind, and we are going much faster, more efficiantly.
Super Stock and Drag Illus. was my favorite from 1965 to the end. First one I bought was the Spring Nationals held at Bristol in 1965. Hurst Hemi Under Glass on cover. Hooked ever since.
Spot on. I have about 90% of the Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines published 67-72, and numerous examples of the other magazines you described. They're a fantastic resource and great fun just to read. There's no better way to spend a rainy afternoon than to put on some Hendrix and Motown and dive into a stack of old car mags. It's amazing how the present fades away and your mind transports back to that era.
I learned a lot reading those old mags. I find it funny that if you're doing something and you remember an article about what you're fixing to do. You can see the cover in your mind,then start looking. It's always there.
I learned math by working on cars. The reading magazines and repair manuals is what helped me understand definitions and phrases. I couldnt stand school. The teachers bored me to death.
I have a big collection of '50s '60s and 70s car magazines, like hot rod, rod&custom, car craft, speed mechanics, and others that I bought from a friend of mine! I love the hot rodding tips and tricks in them that have been lost to time! One of my favorite articles is "how to put overdrive on your automatic" where they put a cadillac (Lasalle i think) overdrive unit behind a mid 50s ford 2 speed auto! I love that kind of stuff, thats been lost to time! And I am 25, I learn alot from them! :)
My top three mags were the same as yours. I used to devour those things. Same as you, I couldn't wait for the next issues. I had stacks of them and unfortunately threw them all away many years ago. I swear I can remember every magazine. When I see them at swap meets I look at the covers and know what's inside. Those magazines were my life at the time.
I have been into Car's and Muscle cars. About 50 years. Magazine's are what kept me on top of what was coming out all the time. Muscle Machines was my favorite Mag. Now, It's TH-cam. I can go anywhere day or night. Then watch or read about any car or vehicle I want. But I do miss my Bathroom reading and late night reading alot. Mag's were my escape into the car world. To get away from stupid T.V. I could dream about owning, driving, building any Muscle car I wanted. What was original or not on Factory Cars. I miss that era! But now just in a few seconds I can still dream about Muscle Cars again. Shawn.
As a 14 year old paperboy who had been doing my route for about a year i was offered a family special of four magazines for a dollar per month. I got Hot Rod and Motor Trend and my mom got Better Homes and Gardens and dad got something like Saga our something similar. Exactly what escapes my memory. Those two magazines got read reread and saved to be read again countless times in the future. I built engines later on using the engine building articles in those Hod Rod issues but even Motor Trend was great in the muscle car era. Muddled through the years when Hot Rod was all about doing your van up all custom. From interior paint and wheels to headers, RV cam and intake. Finally around 1984 the newspaper cried uncle and that was the end of that. However i feel i got Hot Rod and Motor Trend during some of their best years. Really, not that far back before my subscriptions all the car magazines had black and white photo coverage with very few color features. My nostalgic looks back reaffirm how influential and informative those issues were and i found it quite easy to retain in my memory what i'd read and learned in order to apply it to an engine build. Focusing on each aspect i would remember what Smokey or Dick Landy imparted to me in those articles. I consider all those lessons to be among the best i could have possibly learned and i've had quite good results with my builds as a consequence.
Your video just made me remember how me and classmates would fight over who got to check out the new issue of hot rod and car craft first from the school library!
Totally agree with you! I learned all about synthetic oil from a 1975 edition of a magazine reading it in the high school library, still using synthetic oil today, exclusively! I grew up in southern california, so I saw a dramatic shift in 1974 from american cars to the japanese cars. My first car was a 1975 Datsun pick up, bought new in 1975, at age 18. I promptly took it to a speed shop and started modifying it with headers, 2 and-a-quarter inch exhaust, electronic ignition, water induction, offenhauser 2 stage intake magazine. People remarked that it sounded like a freight train, really boosted the power output as well. I still enjoy reading the classic magazines!
Greetings from the UK. As a 17 year old in the early 1990s my magazine of choice was 1960s and 70s copies of car and car conversions as I was working on my first Austin mini and trying to tune it as cheaply as possible!
I but a bunch of old magazines.. specifically those that covered Oldsmobiles. I try to use them as little reference guides for tricks and tips. I also had car craft and hot rod from 2004 to 2015 and there was still lots of great into in the early 2000's before TH-cam and what not really took over. But I tape and lable off articles that I thought would be good for me to revisit down the road.
Great episode. Had quite a few crates of old mags. Pressure from family forced me to purge twice. Sorry I did that now for sure, especially seeing how many guys from Jalopy Journal have libraries of auto literature cataloged in libraries. Invaluable reading for sure even beyond the tech value. It also made me build reading comprehension and always had a desk reference dictionary on hand to help me learn words I didnt understand. Thanks!
You had asked if we wanted to know more about any of the magizines/articles. I would be interested hear more about the 401 Gremlin in the "Drag Racing" magizine in a future UTG episode. Thanks!
So true, I'm into classic mustang's and loved Mustang Monthly, had a subscription for many years. They had great articles that were very helpful and informative. Out of the blue I got a notice they were discontinuing the magazine and offered me a replacement online magazine when i had 2 years left. Miss getting the next new addition, always was excited when it would come in.
You talk about the sport of kings, it still is. When I was young I could afford some mods, rebuilds, but now there are exhaust systems that cost more than engines did and we''re not talking about the 64-74 period, but 80's. You and I are the same age I think(from the same metro too). When I was little, I was one of those freaks where dad would ask, what car is that and I'd know the year, model, engine, trim etc. I really loved cars and it wasn't the badge engineering we see today and yet now everything looks the same. It was a great time to grow up and learn how things work. I still have a timing light and dwell/tach. Hot Rod was cool, Car Craft, Popular Hotrodding. Kids today just don't know.
Great show, I've been collecting mags since 73. Focusing heavy on Drag Racing. Being from Ohio, Super Stock, Drag USA, and Hi Perf Cars were my faves. Car Craft was the best west coast mag. The Hot Rod Drag Racing and Funny Car pictorials were the best special mags.
Uncle Tony, I was born in 85. When I got old enough to look at the magazines it wasn't the same. I love the era youre talking about there was so much enginuity, and variety in hot roders designs. Not like today with the just stick an LS in it, or rat rod everything trends. There's no better era in cars building.....
Used to get my car mag subscriptions for my birthday up until I was about 15, then paid for them myself. SS&DI, Car Craft, Hot Rod and don't forget Cartoon! Thanks for reliving the best times!!
I was up in attic a few days ago and found some long lost car magazines. One I can't wait to re-read. A special one-time addition from 1969 on engine swaps. I recall back then dreaming of making some of these swaps but I was pumping gas for a couple bucks an hour so it didn't happen then. But it planted seeds and in a few years I swapped a 350hp 327 Vette motor into a '52 Henry J. It was a retired strip car with no engine so I moved everything back halfway into interior. Just like magazine I hand built all the parts. Now I'm all fired up to go read magazine again cover to cover ;)
It was the mid 60's and I was reading Hot Rod magazine during study hall. My favorite section was the Q&A in the back of the mag. Someone had written in and asked if thy could put a big block camshaft in a small block. The answer had me laughing out loud. They said "Yes if you break it in half and lay it in the pan." A teacher walked by and took my mag.
As a Mopar hoarder I also kept my dads old magazines, Hot Rod, SSDI, Popular Hot Rodding (before the van stuff). I have the Cars Illustrated stuff from the 90's too. Also kept all my old Dirt Bike and Motocross Action Magazines. - have a couple filing cabinets full of stuff.
They were literally your youtube subscription list and your instagram feed that showed up once a month with a new glossy cover, he's not kidding on how important they were. And the tech was REAL, not stage 1-3 crap, you learned how everything worked individually.
@@MaliciousSRT id like to have a book thats full of all the hot rod tricks and parts combinations im a ford guy so like 289 heads on a 302 just ways to make more power using OEM parts on a budget
@@johnp1966 Legend! I wish I didn't get rid of mine! My favorite article was the one where they put juice on a Dodge Neon and ran a 13 with it. Poor twinkie motor died after that😂
@@hoost3056 Yes, cuz you could do it all with factory parts, straight from the junkyard. 3.91 and 4.10 Sure Grips in trucks and vans, 440s, 400s, 383s, and 727 in the big tanks, hi stall 727 converters behind Slant 6s in trucks and vans, etc. And you could still find a 68-70 Charger or 70-74 E body for 1000 bucks. Those were the days. Never to return.
I bought my first magazine at a drug store back in 1975. They had a newsstand by the front door. It was Popular Hotrodding and they did a van issue. My 2nd was the next month, and they did a 55-57 Chevy piece. The first car I ever dreamed about owning was a ‘57 Nomad blue metallic with Cragar SS wheels.
You mentioned the Terry Cook "glory days" . After Terry left the California magazines , in the early 80s, he returned to his hometown of Long Valley , NJ , and became the event promoter of "Lead East" . My "not-my-girlfriend"s Mom was Terry's assistant , and Terry was a huge influence on my early hot rodding.
Great episode 👌❕I regret giving most of mine away. Still have a 1957 Hot Rod though. It is a smaller size than you are used to. Only keep a couple. One had a rail called the "Probe". I sold the owner two 392 HEMIs and wanted to believe one was in it when he won the Nationals at Detroit Dragway back in the day.👍✌️🤘🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I loved Car Craft. After 1974 there was a trend toward water injection systems to reduce ping in higher CR engines due to the reduced octane and removal of lead from pump gas.
I hope u see this I absolutely love your channel. Got a 76 trans am 400 auto stock posi unknown highway gears. Not meant to be fast off line but this thing is a dog. No ac. No power windows. Removal of spare tire jack etc. Does have an exausht manifold leak. Seems to hinder vacuum for the 4 barrel. Can an exausht manifold leak matter that much. Also true duals were installed with no converter
6th, not that it matters. I did the same thing in the early 80's. I use to buy one of every car, truck & sometimes boat magazines off the rack & spend days/weeks reading trying to absorb the information provided. I even got into the magazines on painting & bodywork. I remember Hot Rod, Car Craft, Mustangs, Mopar Muscle, 4 Wheel Drive, etc., etc. A guy I use to work for gave me his collection (gotta be at least 150) of magazines in the mid 90's that were from the 70's, I spent most of my spare time glancing trough & reading all of them, I just was amazed on how much I learned from those magazines after having the knowledge from the ones I read in the 80's. Looking for a new home for the magazines from the 70's. Would like to pass on the information to the next generation of gear heads.
I have a library of over 1000 mags (all bought new back in the day) from the that period. Popular Hot Rodding was my favorite, Hot Rod and Car Craft were more for the "I got a brand new car to modify".
I missed out on the CARS magazine based out of NYC. Hemmings Muscle Machines ran some pictures of their legendary street racing scene of the '70s. Wild stuff that I wish I was around for.
I used to get every issue of Cartoons with Krass and Bernie. One of my favorite strips is when they used thousands of matches all night to dry a custom paint job.
Car Craft and Popular Hot Rodding were my favorites. Pop Rod introduced us to Project X, the blown 57 Chevy that Tony Danza drove in the movie Hollywood Knights. Last I heard, they were doing an LS swap on it.
I have that very Car Craft magazine!!!! My mom and Dad asked me in the mid to late 60's what I wanted for Christmas, I cut out the yearly subscription ad from one of my Car Craft magazines and handed to them!!!! i think it was about $8.00 a year not to sure, but my dream came true and that what I got, was so excited to see my copy dropped off every month for years to come!!!!! Yes let's see some of the old tech tips etc. Love It!!!!!!!
I learned SO much from magazines - up until about the late '70s they didn't just mention tech, they took you through it step by step. Engine math, plotting camshaft profiles, actual do's and don'ts, you name it... When I was a kid I poured through them, sometimes staying up way later than I was supposed to, reading under the blankets with a flashlight so I didn't get busted! Just another thing 'kids' will never experience the same way. Sad.
At age 67 I remember all of those magazines but not all did I follow religiously. Hot Rod, Car Craft, especially Super Stock to me SS was more likely to include articles, builds that the average guy Might be able to afford/build. I think a lot' of the tech articles, machining basics were directly involved in my getting a job at Booth-Arons engines, then to a cpl others and finally ended up @ Andy Mannarino's Total Automotive Engineering as a machinist.. It's funny but every guy I worked for was a current or former Pro Stock drag racer! Really enjoyed this video Tony!
I picked the Aug.'67 issue of Hot Rod off the rack in a hole-in-the wall general store. I was 9, and that photo of Roland Leong's Hawaiian dragster on the cover lit off an M80 in my brain that I've still not recovered from. I was hooked from that moment on. I barely made it through HS, because who needs textbooks when you got Car Craft to read in history class?
I remember buying the Car Craft Cruising USA yearly annual in the late 70s and dreaming about cruising around once I got my license. My big dream was to cruise Van Nuys Blvd. One of these days I hope to do that. Thanks Uncle Tony.
The guy that bought my Newport from years ago called me up about two months ago and asked if I wanted some magazines. He wanted them out of the way, just come get them. 6 tubs of late '80's to mid '90's hot rodding goodness. It was like Christmas to me as it was the same stuff I grew up reading. Also, the Carroll Shelby (Direct Connection) speed secrets book is a wealth of period correct Mopar information!! I do like searching out the Hot Rod magazines from the '70's to see the cool paint jobs!
I keep waiting for Tony to post his 470 R Block build years ago on his website in the WayBack section. "Build a 470 from a 400, paint it stock, tell everyone it's a 383". that's not exactly what it said but it's close. MOPAR Muscle I think. LOL, a pic of Tony standing beside a '70 RR with a finger over his lips as if to say "sssshhhhhhhh". Great stuff.
Living over here in the uk. Loved getting my magazines every month hot rod, car craft and two uk magazines custom car and street machine. Still got nearly all of them in boxes. Love getting them out and reading them again😀
I've got 1000's of mags from 58 to present. Biggest change I see is there used to be "this is how you make this work" or "this is how you modify that". Now, magazines are one long commercial."this is how to install abc control arms" or "we gain xxx hp with abc heads" which is just a long infomercial on products that advertise in the mag. Favourite of all are my bracket racing USA mags. (Which changed to drag racing USA) Freiburger saved car craft, then a host of other mags. But car craft under Freiburger was all about cheap, do it yourself and burn outs. He also did 4x4 off road and a couple other off road mags. Thanks Tony, love my mags better than the Internet...but TH-cam is cool too, lol.
For the folks in Jersey or Staten Island, you can find old magazines like those at Englishtown flea market. you have to hunt out the old venders inside the buildings. If the place looks like a disorganized mess, you found a likely spot! Happy Hunting!
Me and my buddies used to spend hours reading and talking about the cars in Hot Rod. But I also liked sports cars - especially the British Jaguars,, Triumphs and MGs - so my second favorite magazine was Car & Driver. It was more counterculture than Hot Rod, so it really appealed to the hippie in me, especially Brock Yates and his articles about the Cannonball Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Race!
We're about the same age and I feel the absence of these magazines. My favourite memory was a Canadian magazine that had a few pages of classified ads at the back for people selling cars. I'm reading this one day and find an ad for a later (72/3?) Roadrunner that had been hopped up a bit. The final line was too funny: "Must sell, son nearing 16"!!!!!!!!!
I have every Hot Rod from 1960-1972 as well as most Super Stock and Drag Illustrated from the same era. Lots of other titles such as Supercar Illustrated, Car life, Etc. Great information to be found in these magazines
My neighbor got me into cars back in the 70s and ALL the car mags were awesome! Hot Rod, Car Craft. Popular Hot Rodding, etc. including Road and Track, Car and Driver gave me a broad pallette and a great appreciation for all styles of performance automobiles. I wish all this tech didn't ruin great publishing.
Anyone remember Hot Rod's swimsuit issue in the early 80's? Best of both worlds. 2 for 1
Autobuff, girls and cars. Try that today!
I think I still have most of them from the 80s😁👍
@@davidleonard8369 Yes, didn't last that long. I was sad when Autobuff went TU.
Yeah, girls and cars, last thing I want is some snowflake coming down at me for objectifying someones “ride”.
I still have some of those
Brings tears to my eyes. I had milk crates full. The golden era of information.
Me too. Damn, if only I had known to keep them. Big regrets there.
Yup - tried to sell 'em - tried to Donate 'em - NOBODY wanted 'em - - ended up burning box fulls of 'em 😞🔥
I tossed out whatever I had too. Then again I don't have the Dodge Dart anymore either.
I tell people to donate 'em to the armed forces, but even that's not easy. So I end up with 'em instead :) Mustangs Unlimited went out of biz in my state, so i grabbed EIGHT soda boxes full of their car magazines. That wasn't even Hemmings. I wish I had room, I'd go back for more.
And believe me, that's not the only free collections I've nabbed. I got three boxes of Street Rodder at a model contest, two boxes of Corvette Monthly at a car show that coughed up 4 boxes of Mopar Monthly for free. I figure if ANY of the tech articles save me money (and you know they will), hauling those boxes across parking lots on a hot day was worth it.
Quality over quantity
Before the internet, all I had was a Chilton or Hayne's manual and some advice from the guy behind the counter at the part's store (there was a time when most of those guys knew what they were talking about). The Chilton's manuals back then (before they were bought out by Haynes and turned to mush) taught you how to completely disassemble the entire car and rebuild it. Back then, I would never have imagined that I'd be able to find a video about how to do damned near anything in a few seconds...standing in front of my car...on a phone.
My highschool year book for 1984 had a picture of me in my english class reading Car Craft, caption was "odd text book". I still have all my old magazines on racks in my basement.
The amount of knowledge I’ve gained from magazines and forgotten books is staggering.
I had a 400 hour 318cid because of HOT rod
I've got BOXES of these old magazines!! Drives my wife nuts when I drag one out and spend a week reading
These should be scanned and put online.
@@joshuagibson2520 Honestly yeah,at least its nice cars and not other women. You can have 3 cars but you can't have 3 wives
When I was a kid, I remember a magazine called "Cartoons" That mag featured nothing but cartoons and stories based on hot rods. Anyone should grab a copy if they see it. I'm keeping my eyes open!
Drive that Road Runner!!!
Car Craft from the *early* seventies, before it entered the "Camaro Craft" years!
And Vegas b4 they rusted away lol
You spelled crapmaro wrong
@@Welcometofacsistube it's a good thing I had swallowed my coffee and set the mug down before I read your comment!
I picked up my first issue of PHR in the early 80's. No love for Mopar in any of the magazines anywhere. Back in those days, any fkn idiot could build a Chevy. It took a special brand of weirdo to build a Mopar!
@@Tumbleweed_TxI don't see the difference building any pushrod V8, I've always built a variety of engines and had good luck.
Still remember being a 15 year old Mopar fan and stumbling across my first issue of Chrysler Power magazine. It had a huge writeup on the Ramchargers and the Candymatic. Good stuff to a kid in the mid 80s
You forgot CARtoons magazine. Taught many of us how to draw and love cars.
I loved CARtoons, how many of those cars did we draw, before we could drive.
It's been back for a few years now.
I got a drawing of a Boss 429 Mustang, done in the style of Dave "Big" Deal published in there, around 1975. I was about ten. They paid me 5 bucks for it!
I remember Krass and Bernie stories from the 70s. Glad Car Craft brought them back. That Trosley is a dirty old man, lol. He does raunchy cartoons for Hustler, too. So I've heard 🙄🤣!
CARtoons was always the first one I grabbed off the rack for sure each month.
I remember the car craft junk yard jewels issues, my dad used to bring them home to me when i was a kid. I had hot rod magazine, car craft, custom classic trucks subscriptions when I was in my late teens, I even helped a buddy of mine in the late 90's early 00's on some of Terry Cook's builds, his roadmaster wagon "chopped" and the 39 Lincoln zephyr "Scrape" reproduction fiberglass cars in the beginning. That was uprising of my hotrod custom car building era which came to a screeching halt in 04 due to my father passing. Love that you bring up this old stuff that brought smiles to our faces back then. I enjoy all of your content! Thanks!
Hot Rod, Super Chevy, and Popular Mechanics.... my favorite 3 mags back in my youth.
As a kid growing up in the golden age of muscle or what they called them back then, "super" cars, completely agree with this titles. I still remember how my interest in them faded after '73 when muscle faded away and the hot new fad were vans and velour everything inside 'em. And who can forget the incredible ads that GM, Dodge, Plymouth and AMC did with their muscle cars from '66 to '72? Plymouth with their Rapid Transit System 2 page ads for 1970. So many great memories and thanks for bringing them back one more time!
Spot on about High Performance cars, which had a real slant towards Baldwin-Motion and rightly so as they were making some incredible killer cars such as the Phase III Corvettes, Camaros and Chevelles; later on getting in on the V8 Vega game. A great one-two writing punch of Martyn L Schorr and Joe Oldham, too.
I couldn't wait for Hot Rod and Car Craft to come out every month. I really dig your content. Happy Motoring.
Popular Hot Rodding too! Actually, popular Mechanics was great in the old days too.
Farewell Car Craft. I subbed for years and got dropped without warning. It was better than Hot Rod--more down to earth.
As soon as car craft would show up in the mail box I would stop what I was doing and read it cover to cover hotrod was ok but I always liked car craft better
Absolutely Tony, I'd love here you go through some of the old rags
I used to buy Car Craft, Super Chevy, and Chevy High Performance Magazines. I had a huge stack of them and got rid of them years ago. I really wish I'd held on to them now.
Absolutely lived for the magazines when I was too young to do anything else. I learned alot before I even got my first car. Grat to see others appreciate them as well.
Growing up through the 80s, I absolutely feasted on magazines like these. I would gobble up every article written by one Tony DeFeo, plus Richard Ehrenburg, Jerry Heasley and more. I had subscriptions to Mopar Muscle and High Performance Mopar, and I would buy several others off the shelf every month as well. These magazines are where I learned 95% of the muscle car history I now know, and I still have most of them packed up in plastic tubs in the basement. Must be time to go rooting through them again!
I came in on the tail end of the magazine era. I remember in middle school getting the new Autotrader and Corvette trader at the gas station every month and picking my cars out. Tell my wife all the time how I miss it.
While other kids were looking at Playboy, I was drooling over the 440 Six Barrel Road Runner vs. SCJ Mustang drag test!
They use to have hotrod magazines in my elementary school library
use to, not used.
@@bigbear5510 actually it's *used to*
@@77yogurt This is what I was taught in school; I use to read car/truck magazines, since I have read them several times, they are now used magazines. I guess that the millennials have changed the definition & use of the 2 different words. Just like they have to have everything scented or flavored, even water.
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Love the video! I'm 24 and can't get enough old school hot roddin wisdom.
How’s life at 24?
Geeze, what a great segment....this 70+ year old used to sorta hide my hot rod magazine behind other books while reading at school...boy did you revive those memories....
I learned to read and spell reading Hot Rod magazine
I graduated with a kid who taught himself to read with playboy. Til grandma noticed he beat her to the mailbox the first of the month and figured out why.
He missed 6 weeks midway through our senior year for a bleeding ulcer from swallowing his tobacco spit starting in 6th grade, they figured out he couldn't read when he came back and gave him his diploma.
Me too. Got my 1st sub at age 6. Thanks Mom.
I learned off sesame Street , and hot rod was cool but I was more of a car craft kid.
We learned what boobies looked like by finding a stash of playboys at a friend's house when we were in like 3rd grade.
Learned alot that day.
Same bud!!!
Trip down memory lane. I would try to get my hands on every Hot Rod Magazine I can find.
My dad passed away a while back & i found a box with three years of Hot Rod mags from the 1960s. He had a subscription. The pictures and even the adds are so cool. Some of the adds would make killer posters to frame.
ANY and ALL information you give is welcomed and appreciated! I love watching your builds. But I think my favorite is when you talk about things that you have seen and done. Thank you for everything you do
Awesome topic! The other day I ran across a PAW catalog and I was instantly flooded with memories of being 15 years old and just reading that catalog cover to cover. Of course I had the typical car magazine subscriptions as well, but it was something about those catalogs. Just being able to build my dream from the pages of those books. Just awesome. On the same topic, this is the reason I started my little TH-cam channel. Because kids now don’t have what we had. There is a huge gap in knowledge and Information. I think channels like yours (and dare I say mine) fill that gap. Well done on this vid!
You described my life as a child to a T. I walked a mile each way once a month and spent my allowance on all those titles! Thanks for sparking great memories!
In high school, my stack of Car Craft and Hot Rod was twice as high as my stack of Playboys.
I'm only 30. But I still have boxes full of 4x4, jeep, dirtwheels and diesel power mags from the 90s until now. I love Looking back in my oldest mags to look at what was the big thing and style and feeling the nostalgia. They are like a time machine/capsule.
In my early 40’s we were moving again and my wife was on me to not keep my boxes of magazines. I thinned the collection by 80%,, tossing them into recycling. Really, really regret that. I had massive collection of Hot Rod, Car Craft, Road & Track, Motortrend, Mustang Monthly, Mustangs & Fords… I had several subscriptions. Couldn’t wait to get it in the mail and plop down to read. Thanks Tony.. memory lane!
Car Craft and Popular Hotrodding were my favorites. I started reading my older brothers Car Crafts from 1988 in 1990, and subscribed till the end. In 90, they were trying to make sense of the ECMs and work around them, and so was I. They also would build parts from the kitchen junk drawer. Finally, by 1992, the aftermarket quickly learned how to deal with modern cars and progressed to where we are today, and CC documented it. We left the stagnant 70s technology behind, and we are going much faster, more efficiantly.
Super Stock and Drag Illus. was my favorite from 1965 to the end. First one I bought was the Spring Nationals held at Bristol in 1965. Hurst Hemi Under Glass on cover. Hooked ever since.
Spot on. I have about 90% of the Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines published 67-72, and numerous examples of the other magazines you described. They're a fantastic resource and great fun just to read. There's no better way to spend a rainy afternoon than to put on some Hendrix and Motown and dive into a stack of old car mags. It's amazing how the present fades away and your mind transports back to that era.
I love all those magazines, I could sit and look through them for days.
I learned a lot reading those old mags. I find it funny that if you're doing something and you remember an article about what you're fixing to do. You can see the cover in your mind,then start looking. It's always there.
I still have my collection from fifty years ago!
Same here!
Me too. I started in 1955 and still have them all. Love those mags!
I learned math by working on cars. The reading magazines and repair manuals is what helped me understand definitions and phrases. I couldnt stand school. The teachers bored me to death.
Me too bro, I read Motors manuals for recreation!!😆😆
You hung out in the auto shop all day. I know -I had several kids like you in class.
And that isn't easy math...😣
I have a big collection of '50s '60s and 70s car magazines, like hot rod, rod&custom, car craft, speed mechanics, and others that I bought from a friend of mine! I love the hot rodding tips and tricks in them that have been lost to time! One of my favorite articles is "how to put overdrive on your automatic" where they put a cadillac (Lasalle i think) overdrive unit behind a mid 50s ford 2 speed auto! I love that kind of stuff, thats been lost to time! And I am 25, I learn alot from them! :)
My top three mags were the same as yours. I used to devour those things. Same as you, I couldn't wait for the next issues. I had stacks of them and unfortunately threw them all away many years ago. I swear I can remember every magazine. When I see them at swap meets I look at the covers and know what's inside. Those magazines were my life at the time.
I have been into Car's and Muscle cars. About 50 years. Magazine's are what kept me on top of what was coming out all the time. Muscle Machines was my favorite Mag. Now, It's TH-cam. I can go anywhere day or night. Then watch or read about any car or vehicle I want. But I do miss my Bathroom reading and late night reading alot. Mag's were my escape into the car world. To get away from stupid T.V. I could dream about owning, driving, building any Muscle car I wanted. What was original or not on Factory Cars. I miss that era! But now just in a few seconds I can still dream about Muscle Cars again. Shawn.
As a 14 year old paperboy who had been doing my route for about a year i was offered a family special of four magazines for a dollar per month. I got Hot Rod and Motor Trend and my mom got Better Homes and Gardens and dad got something like Saga our something similar. Exactly what escapes my memory. Those two magazines got read reread and saved to be read again countless times in the future. I built engines later on using the engine building articles in those Hod Rod issues but even Motor Trend was great in the muscle car era. Muddled through the years when Hot Rod was all about doing your van up all custom. From interior paint and wheels to headers, RV cam and intake. Finally around 1984 the newspaper cried uncle and that was the end of that. However i feel i got Hot Rod and Motor Trend during some of their best years. Really, not that far back before my subscriptions all the car magazines had black and white photo coverage with very few color features. My nostalgic looks back reaffirm how influential and informative those issues were and i found it quite easy to retain in my memory what i'd read and learned in order to apply it to an engine build. Focusing on each aspect i would remember what Smokey or Dick Landy imparted to me in those articles. I consider all those lessons to be among the best i could have possibly learned and i've had quite good results with my builds as a consequence.
Your video just made me remember how me and classmates would fight over who got to check out the new issue of hot rod and car craft first from the school library!
Totally agree with you! I learned all about synthetic oil from a 1975 edition of a magazine reading it in the high school library, still using synthetic oil today, exclusively! I grew up in southern california, so I saw a dramatic shift in 1974 from american cars to the japanese cars. My first car was a 1975 Datsun pick up, bought new in 1975, at age 18. I promptly took it to a speed shop and started modifying it with headers, 2 and-a-quarter inch exhaust, electronic ignition, water induction, offenhauser 2 stage intake magazine. People remarked that it sounded like a freight train, really boosted the power output as well. I still enjoy reading the classic magazines!
Also don't forget the " how to " type paperback books from Peterson Publishing ( Makers of Hot Rod )
Early on , there were even hardbacks. This would be circa 1963.
I still have one that details how to build an altered-wheelbase F/X.
Greetings from the UK. As a 17 year old in the early 1990s my magazine of choice was 1960s and 70s copies of car and car conversions as I was working on my first Austin mini and trying to tune it as cheaply as possible!
I but a bunch of old magazines.. specifically those that covered Oldsmobiles. I try to use them as little reference guides for tricks and tips. I also had car craft and hot rod from 2004 to 2015 and there was still lots of great into in the early 2000's before TH-cam and what not really took over. But I tape and lable off articles that I thought would be good for me to revisit down the road.
Great episode. Had quite a few crates of old mags. Pressure from family forced me to purge twice. Sorry I did that now for sure, especially seeing how many guys from Jalopy Journal have libraries of auto literature cataloged in libraries. Invaluable reading for sure even beyond the tech value. It also made me build reading comprehension and always had a desk reference dictionary on hand to help me learn words I didnt understand. Thanks!
You had asked if we wanted to know more about any of the magizines/articles. I would be interested hear more about the 401 Gremlin in the "Drag Racing" magizine in a future UTG episode. Thanks!
My late uncle has a book shelf full of old Hot Rod magazines. I like to read the old muscle car ads in those magazines, back when those cars were new.
So true, I'm into classic mustang's and loved Mustang Monthly, had a subscription for many years. They had great articles that were very helpful and informative. Out of the blue I got a notice they were discontinuing the magazine and offered me a replacement online magazine when i had 2 years left. Miss getting the next new addition, always was excited when it would come in.
You talk about the sport of kings, it still is. When I was young I could afford some mods, rebuilds, but now there are exhaust systems that cost more than engines did and we''re not talking about the 64-74 period, but 80's. You and I are the same age I think(from the same metro too). When I was little, I was one of those freaks where dad would ask, what car is that and I'd know the year, model, engine, trim etc. I really loved cars and it wasn't the badge engineering we see today and yet now everything looks the same. It was a great time to grow up and learn how things work. I still have a timing light and dwell/tach. Hot Rod was cool, Car Craft, Popular Hotrodding. Kids today just don't know.
Great show, I've been collecting mags since 73. Focusing heavy on Drag Racing. Being from Ohio, Super Stock, Drag USA, and Hi Perf Cars were my faves. Car Craft was the best west coast mag. The Hot Rod Drag Racing and Funny Car pictorials were the best special mags.
Uncle Tony, I was born in 85. When I got old enough to look at the magazines it wasn't the same. I love the era youre talking about there was so much enginuity, and variety in hot roders designs. Not like today with the just stick an LS in it, or rat rod everything trends. There's no better era in cars building.....
Used to get my car mag subscriptions for my birthday up until I was about 15, then paid for them myself. SS&DI, Car Craft, Hot Rod and don't forget Cartoon!
Thanks for reliving the best times!!
I was up in attic a few days ago and found some long lost car magazines. One I can't wait to re-read. A special one-time addition from 1969 on engine swaps. I recall back then dreaming of making some of these swaps but I was pumping gas for a couple bucks an hour so it didn't happen then. But it planted seeds and in a few years I swapped a 350hp 327 Vette motor into a '52 Henry J. It was a retired strip car with no engine so I moved everything back halfway into interior. Just like magazine I hand built all the parts. Now I'm all fired up to go read magazine again cover to cover ;)
I've got 4 or 5 of my dad's old car magazine's from the early 70s. Pretty cool article's in them and some older performance tricks n tips.
Ha ha I have several decades of all those magazines HR, CC, PHR Several others and THEY ARE VALUABLE TREASURES!!!! THNX!
It was the mid 60's and I was reading Hot Rod magazine during study hall. My favorite section was the Q&A in the back of the mag. Someone had written in and asked if thy could put a big block camshaft in a small block. The answer had me laughing out loud. They said "Yes if you break it in half and lay it in the pan." A teacher walked by and took my mag.
My how times have changed, used to sit on the john and read car magazines, now we sit on the John and watch videos. 🤣
As a Mopar hoarder I also kept my dads old magazines, Hot Rod, SSDI, Popular Hot Rodding (before the van stuff). I have the Cars Illustrated stuff from the 90's too. Also kept all my old Dirt Bike and Motocross Action Magazines. - have a couple filing cabinets full of stuff.
I'm 21 i love these old books I wish magazines were still prominent
They were literally your youtube subscription list and your instagram feed that showed up once a month with a new glossy cover, he's not kidding on how important they were. And the tech was REAL, not stage 1-3 crap, you learned how everything worked individually.
@@MaliciousSRT id like to have a book thats full of all the hot rod tricks and parts combinations im a ford guy so like 289 heads on a 302 just ways to make more power using OEM parts on a budget
@@adamturner2507 There is books for that, look up something like "how to hot rod the small block ford"
@Brian Jones What killed the mags was all the content was 3 months old by the time you read it and it was already all over the internet for free.
If you remember Tony DeFeo and Cars Illustrated, you're really hardcore.
i still have about 12 issues of Cars Illustrated, my favorite mag
@@johnp1966 Legend! I wish I didn't get rid of mine! My favorite article was the one where they put juice on a Dodge Neon and ran a 13 with it. Poor twinkie motor died after that😂
I'm positive I have some old Mopar Actions from the 90s with Tony in them, too.
@@donellmuniz590 Remember when Mopars were cheap to mod? I do👍
@@hoost3056 Yes, cuz you could do it all with factory parts, straight from the junkyard. 3.91 and 4.10 Sure Grips in trucks and vans, 440s, 400s, 383s, and 727 in the big tanks, hi stall 727 converters behind Slant 6s in trucks and vans, etc. And you could still find a 68-70 Charger or 70-74 E body for 1000 bucks. Those were the days. Never to return.
I bought my first magazine at a drug store back in 1975. They had a newsstand by the front door. It was Popular Hotrodding and they did a van issue. My 2nd was the next month, and they did a 55-57 Chevy piece. The first car I ever dreamed about owning was a ‘57 Nomad blue metallic with Cragar SS wheels.
Great video! How about a "behind the scenes" of how it was at Cars Illustrated when you were there? I have the feeling it was kind of wild
You mentioned the Terry Cook "glory days" .
After Terry left the California magazines , in the early 80s, he returned to his hometown of Long Valley , NJ , and became the event promoter of "Lead East" . My "not-my-girlfriend"s Mom was Terry's assistant , and Terry was a huge influence on my early hot rodding.
Mopar Action was my addiction. Devoured it like a rabid wolf.
And Giant Thighs.....can’t forget that one....
TH-cam and the internet in general have replaced print motor journalism. My porn collection no longer weighs 100 pounds either
Lol
And it now comes with sound! What a revolution hah
No more stacks of VHS tapes ! LOL
@@davidkuhlman8004 carrying around a TV and VCR was a real pain in the ass
Great episode 👌❕I regret giving most of mine away. Still have a 1957 Hot Rod though. It is a smaller size than you are used to. Only keep a couple. One had a rail called the "Probe". I sold the owner two 392 HEMIs and wanted to believe one was in it when he won the Nationals at Detroit Dragway back in the day.👍✌️🤘🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Tony you helped me get my 67 camaro, I wouldn’t even know where to start but I learned from your TH-cam videos
I loved Car Craft. After 1974 there was a trend toward water injection systems to reduce ping in higher CR engines due to the reduced octane and removal of lead from pump gas.
I hope u see this I absolutely love your channel. Got a 76 trans am 400 auto stock posi unknown highway gears. Not meant to be fast off line but this thing is a dog. No ac. No power windows. Removal of spare tire jack etc. Does have an exausht manifold leak. Seems to hinder vacuum for the 4 barrel. Can an exausht manifold leak matter that much. Also true duals were installed with no converter
6th, not that it matters. I did the same thing in the early 80's. I use to buy one of every car, truck & sometimes boat magazines off the rack & spend days/weeks reading trying to absorb the information provided. I even got into the magazines on painting & bodywork. I remember Hot Rod, Car Craft, Mustangs, Mopar Muscle, 4 Wheel Drive, etc., etc. A guy I use to work for gave me his collection (gotta be at least 150) of magazines in the mid 90's that were from the 70's, I spent most of my spare time glancing trough & reading all of them, I just was amazed on how much I learned from those magazines after having the knowledge from the ones I read in the 80's.
Looking for a new home for the magazines from the 70's. Would like to pass on the information to the next generation of gear heads.
I have a library of over 1000 mags (all bought new back in the day) from the that period. Popular Hot Rodding was my favorite, Hot Rod and Car Craft were more for the "I got a brand new car to modify".
I just love leafing through old mags. I always get a kick out of prices of things.
imagine new carbs for less than $100 bucks.
Hey Tony, Love the content keep it up
I missed out on the CARS magazine based out of NYC. Hemmings Muscle Machines ran some pictures of their legendary street racing scene of the '70s. Wild stuff that I wish I was around for.
That would be awesome to do some old article reviews Tony. It would definitely help to jog the old memory of stuff that I forgotten about.
I used to get every issue of Cartoons with Krass and Bernie. One of my favorite strips is when they used thousands of matches all night to dry a custom paint job.
The highlight of my days was seeing the mail box lid propped open with new car content.
Car Craft and Popular Hot Rodding were my favorites. Pop Rod introduced us to Project X, the blown 57 Chevy that Tony Danza drove in the movie Hollywood Knights. Last I heard, they were doing an LS swap on it.
I found a few mid 2000 Truckin' Magazines ..they are 1/2 inch thick! They were shutdown in 2019..😕
I have that very Car Craft magazine!!!! My mom and Dad asked me in the mid to late 60's what I wanted for Christmas, I cut out the yearly subscription ad from one of my Car Craft magazines and handed to them!!!! i think it was about $8.00 a year not to sure, but my dream came true and that what I got, was so excited to see my copy dropped off every month for years to come!!!!! Yes let's see some of the old tech tips etc. Love It!!!!!!!
I learned SO much from magazines - up until about the late '70s they didn't just mention tech, they took you through it step by step. Engine math, plotting camshaft profiles, actual do's and don'ts, you name it...
When I was a kid I poured through them, sometimes staying up way later than I was supposed to, reading under the blankets with a flashlight so I didn't get busted!
Just another thing 'kids' will never experience the same way.
Sad.
At age 67 I remember all of those magazines but not all did I follow religiously. Hot Rod, Car Craft, especially Super Stock to me SS was more likely to include articles, builds that the average guy Might be able to afford/build. I think a lot' of the tech articles, machining basics were directly involved in my getting a job at Booth-Arons engines, then to a cpl others and finally ended up @ Andy Mannarino's Total Automotive Engineering as a machinist.. It's funny but every guy I worked for was a current or former Pro Stock drag racer! Really enjoyed this video Tony!
I picked the Aug.'67 issue of Hot Rod off the rack in a hole-in-the wall general store. I was 9, and that photo of Roland Leong's Hawaiian dragster on the cover lit off an M80 in my brain that I've still not recovered from. I was hooked from that moment on. I barely made it through HS, because who needs textbooks when you got Car Craft to read in history class?
Ah, when Hot Rod magazine was just as likely as not to be the mag you bought to guide you through fixing up your van.
Great information Tony you brought me back to my youth. It be super of you to go through and share some!
I remember buying the Car Craft Cruising USA yearly annual in the late 70s and dreaming about cruising around once I got my license. My big dream was to cruise Van Nuys Blvd. One of these days I hope to do that. Thanks Uncle Tony.
The guy that bought my Newport from years ago called me up about two months ago and asked if I wanted some magazines. He wanted them out of the way, just come get them. 6 tubs of late '80's to mid '90's hot rodding goodness. It was like Christmas to me as it was the same stuff I grew up reading. Also, the Carroll Shelby (Direct Connection) speed secrets book is a wealth of period correct Mopar information!!
I do like searching out the Hot Rod magazines from the '70's to see the cool paint jobs!
I keep waiting for Tony to post his 470 R Block build years ago on his website in the WayBack section. "Build a 470 from a 400, paint it stock, tell everyone it's a 383". that's not exactly what it said but it's close. MOPAR Muscle I think. LOL, a pic of Tony standing beside a '70 RR with a finger over his lips as if to say "sssshhhhhhhh". Great stuff.
Living over here in the uk. Loved getting my magazines every month hot rod, car craft and two uk magazines custom car and street machine. Still got nearly all of them in boxes. Love getting them out and reading them again😀
I've got 1000's of mags from 58 to present. Biggest change I see is there used to be "this is how you make this work" or "this is how you modify that". Now, magazines are one long commercial."this is how to install abc control arms" or "we gain xxx hp with abc heads" which is just a long infomercial on products that advertise in the mag. Favourite of all are my bracket racing USA mags. (Which changed to drag racing USA) Freiburger saved car craft, then a host of other mags. But car craft under Freiburger was all about cheap, do it yourself and burn outs. He also did 4x4 off road and a couple other off road mags. Thanks Tony, love my mags better than the Internet...but TH-cam is cool too, lol.
For the folks in Jersey or Staten Island, you can find old magazines like those at Englishtown flea market. you have to hunt out the old venders inside the buildings. If the place looks like a disorganized mess, you found a likely spot! Happy Hunting!
Me and my buddies used to spend hours reading and talking about the cars in Hot Rod. But I also liked sports cars - especially the British Jaguars,, Triumphs and MGs - so my second favorite magazine was Car & Driver. It was more counterculture than Hot Rod, so it really appealed to the hippie in me, especially Brock Yates and his articles about the Cannonball Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Race!
We're about the same age and I feel the absence of these magazines.
My favourite memory was a Canadian magazine that had a few pages of classified ads at the back for people selling cars.
I'm reading this one day and find an ad for a later (72/3?) Roadrunner that had been hopped up a bit.
The final line was too funny:
"Must sell, son nearing 16"!!!!!!!!!
I have every Hot Rod from 1960-1972 as well as most Super Stock and Drag Illustrated from the same era. Lots of other titles such as Supercar Illustrated, Car life, Etc. Great information to be found in these magazines
My neighbor got me into cars back in the 70s and ALL the car mags were awesome! Hot Rod, Car Craft. Popular Hot Rodding, etc. including Road and Track, Car and Driver gave me a broad pallette and a great appreciation for all styles of performance automobiles. I wish all this tech didn't ruin great publishing.