This has to be the best mag next the Rodders Journal. The coverage of the Dave Crane collection is insane.
I haven't seen this issue of H.R.D., but I prefer Traditional Rod & Kulture Illustrated generally. Too many adds in the modern Hot Rod Magazine format, besides they should have kept the "original" when they had it.
I like R & K too...nice layouts...cool photography...cool art features...heavy stock paper...HR Deluxe gets a little better with each issue
LOVE the historical content in HRD, seems like all the extra stuff HRM staffers wanted to go in depth on, and didn't have space in HRM. Not too many mags that I'll delve into front to back. Cool enough to see my Pandraggers' coat atop a page in the new Old Skool Rodz (Santa Maria coverage), but this past week Ganahl got us in a art shot outside the Hitching Post, after the West Coast Kustoms cruise. He had some sort of special speed set on the camera, my head & back are a-blur from turning around. My buds you can make out better. Cheap thrills. Great, great mag.
I picked up the mag a couple of days ago and loved the Crane article as well. I say it was great as well. There is a hell of a lot of garbage in mags these days, and well thats just a sign of the times to me. We all have our different views of mags, but they all have some kind of good content, even if it is just 1 or 2 pages. Will
Love Hot Rod Deluxe. This is the mag with cars with the closest look to what I remember on the street and the track back in the day. Maybe it's just me but I sure as hell don't remember anybody running around with rusty mega channeled four door Studebakers with barbed wire grills, a shot 307 Chevy, and toilet handles for door handles. Hopefully this fad along with party vans and big birds is over. This is the only traditional mag that does'nt have the snot rods in every issue. Uh Oh! now I've started it.
Wow! Overall I appreciate the comments. We'll keep 'em coming. More than bi-monthly however might just kill me. Brad did do a killer job on the Dave Crane story. Keep on telling us what you like and what you don't like. Next issue has "Scene at The H.A.M.B. Drags by Brad...comes out in November. We're working on it now. -jp
Traditional Rod & Kulture is all over Hot Rod Deluxe in my opinion. Although HRD is quite a good mag. Hot Rod Deluxe don't even offer subscription. Are they unsure of it's longevity? And yep, monthly would be a real bonus for TRK!
I remember reading an editorial that said for the magazine to be offered in a subscription you have to BUY IT from the news stands first. They must need to prove the readership first. Guys if you like the mag then show your support and buy them up so it will continue to be published. I loved Motor Trend Classic but that mag didn't make it. Let's not let that happen to HRD!
I like it, I think it is pretty good. I have to admit I am a magazing junkie, and I always by H.R.D. when I see it on the newstand. It is up there with my favorites right now. Jimmy White
IMHO I really think HRD puts out a very good mag as well as various other more "traditional" hotrod style rags. Yes there are many that simply use "ragged edge" type of cars and exploit them for the benefit of # of sales of their mag. If you don't care for that type of mag simply don't buy it. I do think that it is refreshing that their are people willing to put out new mags focused on traditional type of cars. Unfortunately with that comes mags that feature a trend towards the downright "crudeness" of cars being built. I guess what I am trying to say is that you can't have one without the other. my $.02
I bought the latest from the newstand and about fell out of my chair. The last page photo is of my uncle in 1964. His son who goes by Ventura Motors is on the HAMB. Good quality mag..
just wanted to say that the dave crane collection is unbelievable. i was there last nite, dave is a good friend, and very enjoyable to talk with. dictionary of drag racing.
I been readin it a bit, they have an archive to die for and the experience to present it properly. However, in the current issue there is a reply to a readers comment about 'fenderwell' headers that is nothing shy of immature arrogance, check it out on page 94 (third page from the end, no number) titled 'You say wall, we say well' That bothers me, a lot oj
nice magazine + great artical & pics of dave cranes stuff. I was offered the Lyndwood drgatser for $200 back in the early 1990's by a friends - nieghbor. I hasd just gotten finished restoring my lyndwood dragster and was hanging out at a buddies house with the rail on my trailer and his neigbor came over and started talking about his dragster he found and how it looked just like mine. he said he found it in a guys back yard in our home town and drug it home behind his car with and put it in his dads back yard behind the pool. after seeing what I was able to do with my "junk yard find" and the time & money I spent to go it he said"why don't you buy it off of me all I want is $200"? now this guy was a known BS artist and my friends just rolled there eyes at me while he was telling the story so I politly said "no thanks, I have one already". about a week later I found out from another guy that since I turned down this guys offer he got in touch with dave crane via the old FEDA (front engine dragsters of america) and he came down from michigan and bought the rail for $200, and my buddy added "Yes it was a lyndwood dragster, I saw it!" what makes this a bitter pill to swallow is that on the night I was approached by this guy while standing by my rail (on the trailer in the street) his dads house was 3 houses down across the street, I knew that and still didn't go check it out cause I didn't believe him!!! call me a dumb ass!!! really well glad dave has it I know it will be done up right! Paul
I can't bring myself to buy it. Everytime I see it, I think about all the effort that Aaron Lasky put into the original HRD, just to be dropped becasue (at the time) the execs at Hot Rod were too ignorant to see the potential. Now that every moron in the world has jumped on the band wagon, it's finally lucrative. Ten years later, they offer a quality $10 magazine? I'll pass! I completely agree that the content is great and that the mag is well written. However, I prefer to invest in the mags that have supported the scene form day one such as TRJ and Hop Up. Feel free to correct me if I have the facts wrong, but that's my view on it.
I worked for Mopar Muslce and drove a '54 Buick daily when the first issues of Deluxe were put out. Doug Evans, the grand poo-bah at SourceInterlink now, was my publisher and he came back from California from a meeting, stopped at my office door, threw the mag on my desk and said "Ocock! Look at this. (he's a 6'2" former Marine who gargles gravel every morning). They just put this out, and you'd be perfect on it. The guy doing it is named Lasky. Give him a call." I met him at SEMA after the second issue. In our ten minute conversation, he asked me if I was "in the scene," how long I'd been "in the scene," what bands I liked, if I knew Zombie, if I knew someone else that had a movie character name, and told me "the scene" was what was driving the magazine--records, bands, clothing, and the cars would tie it together. In our entire short conversation, he never spoke specifics about cars, though I tried to bring them up several times. I walked away thinking "Damn...Deluxe is gonna die." And shortly thereafter, it did. I still have the well-thumbed copy Evans threw at me, the second second issue, and a perfect un-opened copy of each I figured would go well with my Vol 1/No. 1 Rod & Custom. I couldn't give two turds about cuffs, rock-a-billy, dipity-doo, Pabst, tats, beer can velocity stacks, 3-foot shifters, rebar bumpers, scraping body panels and roof's cut so low you've got to Rat Fink out the insert to drive. It's about the cars, and the history--well constructed, go fast, look good, perform well--the cars people aspired to build back in the day. I can't speak for Pitt, but for my contributions, "the scene" can be handled by other magazines, I'll concentrate on the kinds of stuff that would have made Hot Rod Magazine from '48-'64. Ish. Broads, Blowers, Tuck & Roll. The rest is fluff. -Brad
I think Aaron killed it himself. Dude was a douche to me in Vegas because I didn't have cuffs or the right haircut. Fuck him. Couldn't act professional to save his life. Didn't know shit about cars. Just cared if he was cool... He wasn't... fucking scenester wannabe. LOL, where is he now? That was his M.O. for sure.. experienced first hand. Flew into Vegas for VLV. Had been corresponding with him via email to try and help get some East Coast coverage. Was a douche to me. Was shitty about the east coast, was shitty because I had no grease in my hair or the right haircut. Not a fan of the dude. I think that mag made it out despite his BS... and those that were here remember his BS here as well... couldn't even change the oil in that damn Caddy without fucking up... LOL.... I do enjoy the NEW mag a lot... I'll keep buying it... .
AMEN, if i wanted to read all that bullshit about "the life" id buy rebel rods or OSR or CKD... OSR RUINED CKD. Im in it for the cars. Thats it. Im not some scenster that likes to dress up to fit in. I like some of the music, but half of the people that i see that are into the "scene" dont even own a car. That being said, HRD has a leg up on every other magazine out there, they have the HUGE resources of the archive at Hot Rod. Not to mention alot of the experience involved in it too. I like it. I love the way that its written, its stats, builds and stuff. Its the cars.
Deluxe seem's to be on target w/ a blend of then and now. Their archive cannot be matched. The ball is in their court. Keeping the suit's at bay+ keeping focused= loyal readership. Si?
Hold on one second while I roll my cuffs. I have only conversed with Aaron via E mail, kinda hard to spot a douche bag via E mail. I do appreciate the insight. I never looked at the original as a "scenester mag", I just saw that the rest of the country was doing stuff like some of us were in Texas. At the time HRD came out, I was in college (no traveling), I wasn't on the HAMB (didn't have friends allo over the world buildin great stuff) so it was pretty cool to see a mag that covered the traditional stuff. I took it pretty personally when HRM didn't share my enthusiasm. Please understand that I greatly respect the content and work that goes into the new magazine, I just tend to hold grudges for 10-20 years.
Yea, but compare the quality of an OZ built car to that of a Bo Huff built car! Oz has a great eye, Bo Huff builds cartoon cars cars, but Bo Huff's cars are perfectly suited for OSR, and that says a lot about my opinions of most Bo Huff cars!
Shadow......I bought the car for $100. I drove To Hatboro from Battle Creek Mi. in my 76 Chevy truck that got 70 miles to a quart of oil, 1550 miles, total trip: 22 quarts. The frame had really been hacked and we are now replacing sections of the frame. If you look close to the shot in Hot Rod Deluxe you will notice a section of frame cut out years ago to put a starter on the motor. That has since been fixed and we are fitting the Bantam coupe body. It now has an injected 354 Hemi setting in it. I have the Eelco steering wheel, the Lyndwood dash panel, friction shocks and chassis tag for the lower back of the frame. The chassis will remain accurate Lyndwood and the body will remain as it was on the Nace, Reutz, and Bohl car that ran the '59, '60 and '61 US Nationals in A Competition Coupe. By the way, I saw it run at the Nats in '60. Not having the original frame for the coupe gives the Lyndwood a good home. My email address is at the end of the article, anyone interested can write me. My museum keeps me too busy to spend time on HAMB, so I correspond by email and telephone. Dave Crane MD (Museum Dave)
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