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Contents: Junior’s New Ride (Detroit Speed and Dale Earnhardt Jr. team up to build a ’72 Camaro that blurs the line between a Trans Am feel and Pro Touring hardware. It’s a killer, and you’ll see it in another story in this issue) Feature Stories – Street Cup (Rick Stanton took a real Torino Talladega and built it into a NASCAR Grand National machine for the street); Get A Job In Racing (Have you always wanted to work in racing but just didn’t know where to go? Check out the big leagues of NASCAR); 40 Years Of Baja (This year is the 40th anniversary of the legendary Baja 1000. Here’s how it started with stories of the heroes of Baja); Speed Parts Hall Of Fame (It’s finally here, a Hall of Fame for the most significant speed parts in history. We’re starting off with 10 and will ad five more each year. Here are the inaugural winners); Top Ten (The Hot Rod staff’s picks for the 10 best hot rods of 2007, including the overall Hot Rod of the year); The Crankshaft SPL (Built in the early ’50s, the rear-engine Bell 303 roadster was ahead of its time) Departments – Starting Line (What was gross is now cool); Holeshot (Get to work, will ya?); Bench Racing (Barn finds bring back pleasant memories); Where It All Began (Hemis will always be cool); Roddin’ At Random (York, Pennsylvania is door slammer heaven); Test And Tune (Life with the FAST air/fuel ration meter); Pit Stop (All about camshaft timing); Finish Line (One motor, six turbos) Hot Rod Garage – Intake Manifold Shootout (We gathered all the low-deck MoPar intakes we could find and ran them on a fairly mild 383 MoPar); 750HP LS (Sticking a new Magnuson supercharger on al L92-headed 6.0L truck motor and sneezing in some alky rang the dyno to the tune of 751 hp); Muscle car IRS (Is it right to put an independent rear suspension under a classic muscle car? We found out, and then dug up the kits that are available
Issue: December 2007
Condition: Very Good