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Contents: Rat Rod Riot! (To the general enthusiast, they’re rat rods. But a lot of guys take offense at that. Rats, traditional rods, or just hot rods, we investigate the controversial side of the biggest thing in rodding today) Hot Rods – ’57 F-100 Custom (Gary Coe’s full-custom that survived Power Tour); Kurt Busch Turbo Challenger (A NASCAR superstar goes drag racing with a fast street car); ’31 Ford Phaeton (Sort of a fenderless resto rod with 302 power); Street-Legal Sprint Car (A real open-wheel race car, complete with Hillborns); Street-Legal IMSA Camaro (An old road-race car is now a Power Tour cruiser); LS3-Powered Holley Shop Truck (Holley built a cool ’67 C-10 to showcase its LS swap parts) Feature Stories – WWII Airstrip Drags (It’s the ’50s and early ’60s all over again as hot rodders have rediscovered the freedom of racing on old runways); George Poteet (You may think he’s just a guy with a water-cooled checkbook, but George Poteet is a legit hot rodder and racer) Tech – 1,164hp Rat Motor (HRM’s new guy builds a wicked big-inch Chevy and makes more than 2 hp per cube. And that’s before the big shot of nitrous); How To Install Valvesprings (For something that looks so straightforward, there’s a lot to know about the proper selection and installation of valvesprings); Vette Hack (In a quest to show the effect that weight has on handling, we cut up an ’85 Corvette, weighing and testing it along the way) Departments – Starting Line (Some FAQ’s about the Hot Rod Power Tour); Holeshot (Whoa, Nelly, our Vette Hack adventure lit up the Corvette guys); Roddin’ At Random (Readers’ letters and what’s happening in the world of hot rodding); Where It All Began (Before there was Vette Hack, there was PontiHack); Test And Tune (Some trick new parts and a few Quick Tests, too); Pit Stop (How to choose a camshaft for a turbocharged application); World Of Hot Rod (News from the inner workings of Hot Rod magazine); Coming Next Month (We were hoping we wouldn’t have to do this again)
Issue: November 2010
Condition: Very Good