Description
Contents: Dare To Be Different; ’48 Plymouth; Drag AMCs; Street Jet Truck; Slo Touring Buick; Three Wild Rides; Boss 429 Ranchero; Gilmore Roadster Feature Stories – Gearhead Rewards (HOT ROD and its advertisers cook up a plan to save you real money, right now. So go buy stuff); Top Speed Challenge (From a standing start, go wide open and as fast as possible in a mile. Then reap the glory and a jacket); Rock Racing (Yes, it’s hard-core, off-road stuff, but these guys are true hot rodders building rigs at home and then bashing them) Tech – Variable Valve Timing (Nearly every new engine coming out of Detroit has variable valve timing. Here’s what it is and how to deal with it); Build A SOHC Motor (The Ford 427 SOHC engine is back in style, thanks to all new parts. And we built one); Edelbrock Head Test (We test Edelbrock’s affordable cylinder head for small Chevys and Fords) Departments – Starting Line (Save the high school shop classes); Hole Shot (Perfect and fashionable versus different); Roddin’ At Random (A violent Fuel digger explosion and the death of Pontiac); Where It All Began (Revisiting the Fat Attack, an AMC dealer back in the day and Jay Brown’s awesome Mach 1); Test And Tune (Handling hardware for Mopars, and Summit sells paints); Pit Stop (How to tune a Quick Fuel carburetor); World Of Hot Rod (Flatheads forever and stuff for your garage); Coming Next Month (101 gearhead things to do before you die)
Issue: August 2009
Condition: Very Good