Hot Rods Hot Rod calendar

Is there a good hot rod calender out there?

 

Every year I buy a Roy Boy calendar one of the best. I also do the street rod calendar from Paul Oxman but it is a little off topic sometimes but still good. My final calendar comes from Dennis Parks and features Midwest hot rods mostly from the Hot Rod 100 and the St. Louis area, very cool. Also can't go wrong with the Bob Drake calendar. I'm a calendar whore, got hot rod calendars hanging everywhere. Really miss the Rodder's Journal calendar.

 

I always liked the Hot Ron Hill Climb calendar but I doubt you can get one anymore. I think a Roy Boy calendar would be cool.

 

Roy Boy is I think sold out.

 

I have no idea how many Roy Boy prints but you gotta be quick or they're gone. Next year send him a message, He usually reply's with a date when you can order? I just checked his site and it doesn't say sold out? Check royboyproductions.com Doesn't hurt to ask.

 

I would have 12 pics of unfinished projects.

 

I might need one of those project calendars too for motivation…

On a serious note, I did my usual calendar from Royboy.

 

I usually get one from Iron Trap Garage, a RoyBoy would be cool too.

 

I used to do them for a couple of other boards I'm on. Then the publisher got all shitty, and wouldn't print any pics of Ford vehicles, any age, without me paying them some outlandish fee to join a special Ford group and I had to sign over the rights to all my pics.. I told them to go screw themselves and I haven't done any since. They claimed Ford owned the rights to the images of all Ford vehicles ever since they began, even if you took them out on a street.

 

Made my own vistaprint calander too, did progressive project pics throughout

 

I got a free Bob Drake/Hop Up calendar with my order a couple weeks ago. It's really nice, I was pleasantly surprised.

 

Klee, wish they were/are a little bigger.

 

I think I'll do the Vista print thing next year.

 

My Fargo in the Calendar that my local parts store makes with customer vehicles.

 

Either that, or send me into a deep depression...

 

23's are sold out, 24's are still listed as available: https://royboyproductions.com/product/2024-royboy-productions-calendar/

 

I’d buy one of those.

 

I have a 2023 calendar from Mark and it is very well done, so vista print would be great to use. My local Walgreen's also makes calendars.

 

I also have the the Iron Trap Garage calendar. Thanks, Matt, Mike, and Steve.

 

If I made my own hot rod calendar of my car, each month would be a checklist of what should be accomplished that month and maybe just maybe by the end of the year I'd have something worth taking a picture of for starting January of the next year...

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I’ll add an echo for @IronTrap should have them in stock

 

Thanks for the mention everyone. Yea we’ve been doing a preorder on these the past couple years and order an extra handful for slackers that don’t make the pre-order. I think there’s a few left you can grab through the site: https://irontrapgarage.com/collections/merch

 

Slackers unite!

 

Unfinished projects and old junkyards pics to me are better than finished car catalogs .Why because I envision what I can do with it or what can be done instead of looking at what should not have not been done on a finished car catalog.

 

Mark is the only guy I know with enough vehicles to fill a calendar.

 

We pick a car of month in our car club and at the end of the year produce a calendar that we sell for $10.00 to the members and friends

 

Hello,

I used to make all of our own calendars using my color photos, enlarged to fit a standard blank calendar page. The print was placed on the blank calendar, the custom lettering added for the all of the blank spaces. When I made the color enlargement, I pressed it onto the blank calendar using the photo heated press to seal the photo onto the calendar page.

The blank calendar page was usually a little thicker than just print paper or photo paper. So, it would stay flat on any wall surface. We usually made one page at a time due to the fact that we only live month to month. The single page idea was a good sample of our work, so I included them for customers as a gift. Then as we got settled into printing, we made more single pages of customer’s motorcycles and custom hot rods.

Then it took longer, but the cost of printing 12 pages was getting too time consuming and the digital age was not upon us for many more years. So, we stopped the full 12 month calendars. The single page photo/calendar page was a big hit.

Jnaki

I learned to do three color silk screen in an advanced college photography class. So, I made a few of these on a whiteboard and also on an all black poster board. On the black poster board, one could add as many photos as needed, or any commercial blank calendar page.

We don’t rely on commercial calendars since we know how to make them. With the digital age, it has gotten 10x easier to create and print on thicker photo paper or one single art board. But, you still have to compose the photo without any bothersome background people, signs or whatever. Get or take a clear photo and not a copied photo. The larger it is, the blurrier it gets. So, adjustments are necessary for some clarity. The whole process takes about 30 minutes of digital composition and printing on the right paper.

So, taking your own photo is not just a point and shoot, but composition and background play an important part. For some, any photo will do. Digital photos from phones have their limitations. The digital camera photos have an advantage in clarity, but both require careful composition and planning for the photo being used for your project.

Plus, the digital version is already saved to your files. When placed in a “go” bag copied to an external hard drive, it lasts forever… in an emergency, it is in a safe place. No need to worry about losing stacks of calendars from the past. The little external hard drive will preserve your photo memories nicely.

Note:

For those not into computers and the digital age, the blank commercial calendars are a good start for a single month. Glue your photo and make sure the edges are completely flat. Now, you have a calendar of your own. But, make sure the calendar page is not flimsy paper, so it does not curl at the edges. (take a photo for future preservation)

Despite being cute, 12 separate photos are fun to compose and print, but there are always other photos to include. So we do one at a time, to fit the mood or need. Not permanent 12 months of old photos. YRMV

 

Put my 2024 Dennis Parks Midwest Hot Rods calendar away so good I can't find it. (Early Dementia) Lost his contact information so can't order one next year. They'll find my 2024 calendar when my kids clean out the house for my estate sale.