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Contents: To Tone (Ken “Posie” Fenical does it again with a two-tone paint scheme. This time it’s with Darryl Rodgers 1933 Ford Cabriolet.), Strange Brew (An unusual combination of street rod components and building techniques, and it’s a Pontiac to boot.), Blown In The USA (One of our cover cars this issue. It’s blown, bad, Hemi-powered and driven all the time.), Victorian ‘Glass (1933 Ford Victorias are finally getting the attention they deserve. This is the first fiberglass ’33 Vicky we’ve seen on the street.), Coupe de Mains (A rough translation is “a surprising movement’. Richard Mains got quite a surprise at the NSRA Nats last year.), Hot Lumber (Gary Vahling has a thing for commercial vehicles. His latest, a 1929 Ford woody delivery, is our main feature this issue.), French Bred (This just goes to show you that you can make a silk purse from a sows ear, if you try hard enough.), Bad B (Red is becoming less and less popular with street rodders these days. But if you think red is dead, take a look at this radical piece.), The Duesenford (It took a couple of years to get this one on paper but it was worth it.), Earth Angel II (If nostalgia is your thing, this one’s for you. A recreation of this rodder’s favorite early rod.), Hupp Two, Three, Four (With a name like that you have to know this one’s a Huppmobile. It’s a very nice one too.) Events – The Portland W.O.W. (Wow is what our correspondent said when he walked through the turnstile at last year’s Portland World Of Wheels car show.), Doin’ The Charleston Run (There is another group out there promoting street rod events, the United States Rod Association, and this was one of the biggest events last year.), Coralville Cruise III (The Wanderer’s Custom Car Club hosted their third annual event drawing over 300 entrants from six states.), The Muddy River Run (The Muddy River Run has become a Midwest tradition. It’s held on Fort Wayne Indiana’s Johnny Appleseed Park.) Tech – Project ’37 Update (Our Managing Editor’s project is the recipient of modern street rodding technology. In other words, he found a couple of bolt-on parts that work really neat and we think that you’d like to see them.), Expose – Street Rod Graft (This kind of street rod graft involves the mating of old to new. In this case, a Nova subframe to an early Chevy.), Talking Headers (This new wave header system from California Street Rods suits most street rod applications to a “T”, or an “A”, or “Deuce”, or…) Shop Tours – The Street Rod Manufacturing Co. (Located high in the Rocky mountains, TSM’s Cliff Jones has come up with some very innovative ideas.), Rootlieb, Inc. (Hank Rootlieb had been banging out street parts for street rodders and restorers for a long time, and he still has some of the neatest products around.) Special Features – The Slo-Pops (The story of one of the oldest street rod clubs we know of. If you can document another that’s older, let us know.), Seat Du Jour (A comprehensive buyer’s guide to some of the “seats of today”, and all of them for street rods.) Departments – Collecting Our Thoughts, Mail Collector, The Cop Shop, Kathy’s Kolumn, The Rod Shop, Coming Events
Issue: May 1986
Condition: Very Good