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Contents: Feature Rods & Customs – Home Brew (This right-on nostalgia ’33 was built like a real hot rod…at home); Wild Orchid & Vanilla Shake (With colors like this, it’s gotta be a Real Hot Rod!); Victoria’s Secret (Beneath this ‘glass body is the soul of a hot rod); A Little T & A (As in Model T and Model A flathead-powered rods); Colorado “A” Coupe (Traditional rodding in the Rockies); Go Fast, Turn Left (This ’40 Ford has NASCAR roots); The Perfect Pair (Dick Lewis’ Deuce roadster and A pickup are the perfect pair); Nailed! (An all-Buick hi-boy roadster); Here To Stay (East-coast style works for this Model A) Events – Drag Racing, Texas Style (Burnin’ rubber with the Arlington Street Rods); The IMCA Old-Timers (Kickin’ Dirt with vintage sprints) Other Stuff – Straight-Line Hot Rods (A sampling of some of our favorite Bonneville and Lakes cars); The Old Farts’ Timing Assoc. (Fun with old dragsters comes easy for these guys); Real Hot Rod Sampler (Just about any car can be a real hot rod if it’s done right) Tech & How-To – Tech Tips (Sometimes a Real Hot Rod is in the details); Totally Tubular (Notch tubing like a pro in your garage); It’s A Gas (A smooth gas filler door for your early iron); Give Yourself A Brake (Build your own sheetmetal brake); Signal Kit (Self-canceling turn signals for smooth-columned cars); Barred! (Building a bolt-in roll bar for your hot rod) Departments – Grinding Gears (Living with the Weird Engine Gene); Buyer’s Guide (Real Hot Rod parts); Advertisers’ Directory; Hot Ink (Lance Sorchik ponders the Roots of Rodding)
Issue: July 1998
Condition: Very Good