Description
Contents: Rods – Stock Appearing (This ’32 Ford 2-door sedan has a body that looks almost totally stock, but underneath it was no-holds-barred on the modifications); Built With Beer (Take late Ford suspensions parts, Chevrolet power and add them to early Ford styling, and you’ve got an outstanding street rod); It Was Up A Creek (He found this ’29 Ford pickup, or at least part of it, in a creek bed while hunting. And that part formed the base for a whole lot of street rod); Strictly Business Coupe (It’s a ’37 Business Coupe with all the good stuff to make it a car you don’t want to mess with); The Coupe From Indy (With two of the biggest car races in the country held there, it’s only natural that Indianapolis would produce some outstanding street rods. Like this ’32 Ford 3-window); Pick A Pair (It takes a lucky, and hard-working rodder to have a pair of cars like these in the garage. A Willys Knight coupe and a Plymouth roadster); Hegman’s Honey (When you go all-out building a street rod, you end up with something like this ’32 Ford 3-window); Off The Strip And On The Street (When a person who has spent years building and driving fuel dragsters takes it into his head to build a street rod, you can be sure it will be pretty special); Love At First Roadster (When he say this ’32 he fell immediately in love and just had to have it); Family Affair (Putting together this ’29 Ford coupe was a strictly do-it-yourself project with the whole family helping); World’s Fair Chevy (This ’34 Chevrolet Master Coach wasn’t built in an auto factory. It was built as part of a display at the World’s Fair, and this is only one of the unusual things about it); Quietly Black (This ’34 Roadster is a perfect example of the “California Look” in street rods); ’34 Rat (Take a 427 Chevy, build it until it makes horsepower that won’t quit, then slip it into a ’34 Chevy Sedan, and you’ve got a street rod that won’t quit) Features – Youngstown Rod Run (Rods from all over gathered at the Idora Amusement Park for the Seventh Annual Youngstown Rod Run); Rod Action Visits Total Performance (Rod Action Magazine takes a closer look at one of the country’s top street rod component manufacturers); Seaport Fun Run (The Vintage Valley Street Rods of Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Washington, got together for the third time) Technical – Hiboy Under Construction (A new roadster takes shape in a Missouri garage and Rod Action is there watching); Trick Tranny (You can hype performance by changing your rear axle ratio, but only at the expense of gas mileage. Almost the same results can be gained by switching to a better transmission); An Unusual Frame (Innovation in design is not something that can be ignored when our reporters go out to find out what’s happening in street rods) Departments – Two Way Traffic; SEMA Report; Loading Zone; Stop And Shop
Issue: January 1980
Condition: Very Good