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Contents: Road Tour ’08 (The Speed33 is done and coming to a town near you); Bruce’s Black Beauty (Bruce Rossmeyer’s ’36 Ford five-window coupe); A Numbers Guy (Monty McClellan’s ’58 Chevy Impala); Back In Black (Bob and Sharon Smith’s ’32 Ford phantom highboy phaeton); Reincarnation (Jim Gove’s ’32 Ford Pickup); Would You Believe…? (Mike Bach’s ’37 Dodge woodie); One Of A Kind, One More Time (Jim Bernhardt’s ’57 Ford Del Rio Ranch Wagon) Events – Spring Into Action! (Goodguys 8th annual Del Mar Rod & Custom Nationals); Lonestar Rod & Kustom Round Up (Austin, Texas, hosts the 7th annual event); Blackie Gejeian’s 49th Fresno Autorama (Will the 50th be the last?) General Features – A Real Hot Rod (How about a ’40s-era Sprint Car called the Shaw Special?); The Austin Hot Rod Scene (Cruising area shops and garages) Tech – Power And Style: What A Combination (Bolt on ponies with Edelbrock); The New Rodent (Building a 427-inch, 550-horse LSX engine from the GM performance Parts catalog); Vintage Engines: FoMoCo Y-Blocks (Ford’s first OHV V-8s deserve a close look); Hot Rod Girl: Part III (Building the Total Performance King T); Simple Sheetmetal Solutions (Repairing damaged sheetmetal is easy with the right tools and techniques); Ultimate Underpinnings: Part III (Putting the finishing touches on a traditional chassis); Catch Afire (With an early Chrysler Fire Power Hemi engine); Rough Stuff (The lowdown on abrasives); Water: Not Just For Washin’ Anymore (Waterborne painting at Speed Shop Custom Paint) Departments – For Starters; Street Corner; Rodder Mail; Window Shopper; Fix ‘Ems; Early Iron; Shop Manual; Professor Hammer; Henry Hirise; 20 Years Ago
Issue: September 2008
Condition: Very Good