HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years
Here is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of the world’s longest continuously published and best-known automotive magazine.

HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years celebrates the stunning content that has been created and published by the magazine’s staff in all or parts of nine decades. Witness how HOT ROD has been on scene for the entirety of the postwar performance movement with photographs and articles detailing dragsters, roadsters, slingshots, Funny Cars, coupes, customs, lead sleds, muscle cars, and their builders and owners.

Take a look back through pages that have captured the imaginations of gearheads nationwide by featuring the works of customizing greats like Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, Von Dutch, and George Barris, to name a few. There’s also a look at the great journalism of such hot-rodding legends as Gray Baskerville, and the creations of builders like Pete Chapouris, Boyd Coddington, Steve Moal, Roy Brizio, and Chip Foose—complete with decades of archival black and white and color photographs of the cars and personalities that comprise hot rodding history.

In the late 1940s, a young photographer and Army Air Corps veteran named Robert E. Petersen astutely noted the rapidly growing hot rod scene in Southern California. Buoyed by war veterans with tech savvy, disposable income, and a need for speed, the hot-rodding hobby was without much in the way of informational publishing. In a brilliant stroke, Petersen stepped into the void in 1948, launching HOT ROD magazine. Petersen Publishing would grow into a worldwide media empire featuring several publications. Today, HOT ROD magazine endures as one of the most iconic enthusiast publications ever.

HOT ROD is not simply a magazine—after 75 years, it’s still the magazine of automotive enthusiasts, known and appreciated the world over. This is the definitive and officially licensed look back at that influence.
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HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years
Here is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of the world’s longest continuously published and best-known automotive magazine.

HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years celebrates the stunning content that has been created and published by the magazine’s staff in all or parts of nine decades. Witness how HOT ROD has been on scene for the entirety of the postwar performance movement with photographs and articles detailing dragsters, roadsters, slingshots, Funny Cars, coupes, customs, lead sleds, muscle cars, and their builders and owners.

Take a look back through pages that have captured the imaginations of gearheads nationwide by featuring the works of customizing greats like Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, Von Dutch, and George Barris, to name a few. There’s also a look at the great journalism of such hot-rodding legends as Gray Baskerville, and the creations of builders like Pete Chapouris, Boyd Coddington, Steve Moal, Roy Brizio, and Chip Foose—complete with decades of archival black and white and color photographs of the cars and personalities that comprise hot rodding history.

In the late 1940s, a young photographer and Army Air Corps veteran named Robert E. Petersen astutely noted the rapidly growing hot rod scene in Southern California. Buoyed by war veterans with tech savvy, disposable income, and a need for speed, the hot-rodding hobby was without much in the way of informational publishing. In a brilliant stroke, Petersen stepped into the void in 1948, launching HOT ROD magazine. Petersen Publishing would grow into a worldwide media empire featuring several publications. Today, HOT ROD magazine endures as one of the most iconic enthusiast publications ever.

HOT ROD is not simply a magazine—after 75 years, it’s still the magazine of automotive enthusiasts, known and appreciated the world over. This is the definitive and officially licensed look back at that influence.
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HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years

HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years

by Drew Hardin
HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years

HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years

by Drew Hardin

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Here is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of the world’s longest continuously published and best-known automotive magazine.

HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years celebrates the stunning content that has been created and published by the magazine’s staff in all or parts of nine decades. Witness how HOT ROD has been on scene for the entirety of the postwar performance movement with photographs and articles detailing dragsters, roadsters, slingshots, Funny Cars, coupes, customs, lead sleds, muscle cars, and their builders and owners.

Take a look back through pages that have captured the imaginations of gearheads nationwide by featuring the works of customizing greats like Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, Von Dutch, and George Barris, to name a few. There’s also a look at the great journalism of such hot-rodding legends as Gray Baskerville, and the creations of builders like Pete Chapouris, Boyd Coddington, Steve Moal, Roy Brizio, and Chip Foose—complete with decades of archival black and white and color photographs of the cars and personalities that comprise hot rodding history.

In the late 1940s, a young photographer and Army Air Corps veteran named Robert E. Petersen astutely noted the rapidly growing hot rod scene in Southern California. Buoyed by war veterans with tech savvy, disposable income, and a need for speed, the hot-rodding hobby was without much in the way of informational publishing. In a brilliant stroke, Petersen stepped into the void in 1948, launching HOT ROD magazine. Petersen Publishing would grow into a worldwide media empire featuring several publications. Today, HOT ROD magazine endures as one of the most iconic enthusiast publications ever.

HOT ROD is not simply a magazine—after 75 years, it’s still the magazine of automotive enthusiasts, known and appreciated the world over. This is the definitive and officially licensed look back at that influence.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780760376263
Publisher: Motorbooks
Publication date: 10/25/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 134 MB
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About the Author

Drew Hardin started his work in automotive journalism while still in college in the late 1970s and joined Petersen Publishing in 1986 as a staff editor for 4-Wheel & Off-Road magazine. Since then, he has served as editor and editorial director for several publications, including HOT ROD, and as a contributor to quite a few more, on topics ranging from vintage hot rods and classic muscle cars to 4x4s and alternative-fuel vehicles.
Drew Hardin started his work in automotive journalism while still in college in the late 1970s and joined Petersen Publishing in 1986 as a staff editor for 4-Wheel & Off-Road magazine. Since then, he has served as editor and editorial director for several publications, including HOT ROD, and as a contributor to quite a few more, on topics ranging from vintage hot rods and classic muscle cars to 4x4s and alternative-fuel vehicles.

Table of Contents

Contents
5 Foreword: 75 Years of Influence, by David Freiburger
01 ] The 1940s: Where It All Began
02 ] The 1950s: Boom Times
03 ] The 1960s: Swingin’
04 ] The 1970s: Performance Is Dead. Long Live Performance
05 ] The 1980s: Dare to Be Different
06 ] The 1990s: In It for the Long Haul
07 ] The 2000s: A New Look for the Next Century
08 ] The 2010s: Discovering a New Direction
09 ] The 2020s: Where It’s Going
 Acknowledgments
 About the Author
 Index
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