Ever see these magazines?

I collect a lot of obscure drag Racing titles from the 60's, but have NEVER seen these. I got them today at the automotive literature swap @ the NHRA Museum.

 

Never seen them but I want them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

How often is that swap?- I haven't heard of that one.

 

There was no better drag racing than the "stock" class stuff from '63-65... nice score.

 

Once a year. Previously @ Irwindale Speedway, and i think PCC before that. I miss every other one due to poor advertising. It's a lot more interesting than i would've thought when 1st hearing about it.

 

Yeah, that sounds like something I need to attend.

 

i have the april 65 issue....and i think a couple others...the cool mags are ones you never heard about....i've got one thats nothing more than a bunch of ads for drag parts ....from around 67 or so....has proffitts nash on the cover....good score.....brandon

 

Very cool find, Groucho.....CA mag?......Let us know who published the mags?.....never seen them before.....John

 

New York-

 

more 'oldies'..

CC

 

I have one of those as well as "Super Stock and F/X" magazine. Also have "Super Stock and Drag Illustrated" but I think that is more common.
Todd

 

I have some Super Stockers, super stock, custom rodder and rod builder. There are some others also. They were my father's and he gave them to me. I do look through them for ideas . No they are not for sale. Some of the mag are as far back as the 1950's

 

Here are a few more.....

 

This one is awesome if you like altered wheelbase A/FX stuff circa 1966......

 

Damn! I really want some of those.

 

I knew you'd have them. I have all those titles as well. But, i've never seen the Super Stockers in action before. I was pretty jazzed when i saw them. Makes me wonder what others i haven't seen. BTW-most of those are New York based, and i used to get them all as a kid when i lived there. There's also Rodder and Super Stock, Super Stock & F/X, Rodding & Restyle, Drag Strip, Speed and Supercar, etc

 

Great find! Boy, I was a wee lad at the store thumbing through some of those........Keep this thead going, and open the cover on that Funny Car issue.

 

I have several of these different mags.I'm going to be selling off a big collection of different magazines about 40 years worth.If anyone is interested PM me

 

John,

Yes, they are cool! Those Super/Stockers in Action and Cars issues are East Coast magazines. I believe S/SA (get it?) was around only for a couple years (late-1964 to late-1966). I've got more than a few of them in my collection--especially Cars magazine which later was called Hi-Performance Cars. It was published until the very early 1980s, however the magazine wasn't worth much article-wise past the mid-1970s.

I was never able to find the Wild, Wild World of Funnycars issue at the swap meet or from lists I received from a magazine dealer I used to buy from. I'm pretty sure it was published by the same company that put out Popular Hot Rodding. In fact, I do recall seeing an ad in the back of more than a few PHR issues during that time frame where you could order it.

Regards,

Pete

 

Sure when they were new. I used to drive from the Washington suburbs to Baltimore because they had some killer news stands. I'm pretty sure I have the one with the "Candy stripers" on the cover in the garage some place. It is amazing how many covers the human mind can recall and process to know whether you have it already.

 

There were a ton of titles that came out of New York. It would hard to record just how many there were. Plus a magazine would start up as a monthly, then change to bi-monthly, then back again. Sometimes you find two different issues sharing the same volume and number. They would also change the title as focus of the magazine changed. Custom Rodder started as pocket mag, then would go full size.

 

Custom Rodder large format

 

Custom Rodder would jump on the popularity of the super stocks, and change their name to Rodder and Super Stock

 

Not a monthly but cool anyway. Circa 1962. What a deal for .75 cents!

 

This is about the size of the "little books" everyone loves. Probably a one-shot title too. This one is circa 1965. Funny, it has a great picture of a painted Willys on the cover but you never see it again in the book? Well, for .35 cents, who's complaining? Inside has a picture of a line of stock model A's with the caption "Model A bodies in good condition are rapidly becoming a real scarcity". Mike

 

I'm looking for the January '68 issue of Drag Racing. Any of you magazine guru's have an extra one an old fart can buy?

 

I probably bought a few thru the years

 

I had many of those mags when I was growing up . I used to put the pictures all over my walls ! Had so many but like ever thing else goes , " If we ever knew " what they would be worth today we would have kept them ! OH well !
Those were the great days of car mags !

 

Here's a few from my collection:

Custom Craft#1
Custom Rodder#1(the little version)
A couple issues of Custom Rodder the Australian version
Hop Up magazine(don't know why the pic is b&w)
Trophy Taking Custom Ideas(a one-off probably or a very short-lived mag)
A little issue of Rodding & Restyling with a cover shot of the Catallo coupe in it's uglier iterations.

 

Man those are cool magazines.
Google needs to do a archive like the LIFE photo one.

If you guys see any 64 Olds in those magazine let me know!