HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years [Hardcover]

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

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

Take a look back through pages that have captured the imaginations of gearheads nationwide by featuring the works ofcustomizing greatslike Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, Von Dutch, and George Barris, to name a few. There’s also a look at the great journalism of suchhot-rodding legendsas Gray Baskerville, and the creations of builders like Pete Chapouris, Boyd Coddington, Steve Moal, Roy Brizio, and Chip Foose—complete with decades ofarchival black and white and color photographsof 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, launchingHOT RODmagazine. Petersen Publishing would grow into a worldwide media empire featuring several publications. Today, HOT RODmagazine endures asone of the most iconic enthusiast publications ever.

HOT RODis not simply a magazine—after 75 years, it’s stillthemagazine of automotive enthusiasts, known al£#