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Contents: How To Paint Your Car – The Colorful Art Of Custom Painting (Putting a trick paint job on a ’70 SS396 Camaro); How To Paint Flames (If HOT ROD staffer Bruce Caldwell can do it, so can you); New Series: Bolt-On Basics (Bolting in a B&M Quicksilver Camaro/Firebird shifter) Bad Gas Cures – The Octane Game (Gas/alcohol blends for increased performance); Shop Series: Detonation (How detonation damages your engine and affects fuel economy); Hot Rod Forum (“Ground up” engine building for fuel economy); Rod Test: ’29 Ford Model A Roadster (This healthy ’29 is full of get up and go); World’s Fastest Street Camaro (Scott Shafiroff crosses a streeter with a Pro Stocker); Ford Power: Street Blower Kits (Blower Drive Service has a kit for nearly any combo); Ride On (A fine ’55 that’s all new inside); Ford’s New Hemi (Performance for the ’80s Ford’s 1.6-liter 4-banger); High-Performance Mufflers (Plumbing for power in a free-flow exhaust); Mail-Order Street Rod, Part 2 (Bolting together HOT ROD‘s repro ragtop); Back To Basics: Analyzing High Oil Consumption (How to solve the case of the missing quarts); Hot Rod’s Shop Truck (We build a 1980 Ford Pickup); Special Delivery (Tom Porter’s ’35 Chevy is one rare package); Bike Test: Honda’s Big XL500S (Honda’s thumper delivers fun for every bike-buying dollar); Pop Art (This Anglia combines English styling with Yankee ingenuity); Pony Express (A well-bred, V8 powered, Paxton-blown Pinto) Departments – Editorially Speaking; Post Entry; New Stuff; Roddin’ At Random; Hot Rod Forum; C.J. Talks Tech; In Print; Hot Rod Mart
Issue: July 1980
Condition: Very Good