Getting in Contact with Hot Rod Magazines

This is probably a long shot but I am willing to try. Anyone here on the HAMB know anyone from Hot Rod Magazine, Car Craft, Popular Hot Rodding, Ol Skool Rodz, Rod and Kulture, Car Kulture Deluxe, etc?
I know all of these magazines are 1964 and older Traditional Hot Rods but since I am 19 and I have read most of these magazines since middle school and I feel that even though Hot Rodding was started by teens in the 50s they never do anything in this magazines geared toward teens. Most of them (not all) are always big budgeted Hot Rods that a teen couldn't afford. So I was thinking that may they should try gearing more things to the younger generation who it seems like a lot of people forget is the future of hot rodding.
Anyone know anyone on the staff from any of these magazines?

 

Look up Freiburger on here. That would be the man.

 

you'll learn more here on the HAMB than in any of those mags

 

Whats his user name?

 

Hot Rodding was started by 'Teens' in the '50s?
Harry Miller, Frank Kurtis, Ed Winfield, and Alex Xydias would be surprised!

 

True Dat

 

Ok it started in the late 40s but in the 50s it was mostly teens that were Hot Rodders

 

That would be Freiburger.

 

I should've just used my last name, then again no knows who I am

 

Don't tell that to the guys that had to stop racing and go fight WWII.

 

But was there a lot of Hot Rodding before WWII? Wasn't all of the GIs who used there maintenance and there mechanical skills that started in the late 40s? Then wasn't all of the teens in the 50s who were mainly doing it?

 

yeah...we know you're a 13 yr old MX bike rider....that needs to read just a little bit more. See if F/burger can field some of your questions. The magazines you noted go the direction they go based on reader/subscriber input, trends in CURRENT street rod building. Hot Rods (HAMB-type) are kept 'in the loop' by a lot less people than are reading HOT ROD magazine and plunking down cold hard VISA cards for their machinery. Yeah..there are builders out there - that's where the really fast cars come from. We try not to find fault with STREET RODS so much as we mostly try to steer them to some other site where there cars won't clash with what resides on this forum.

If you want to be all about the 50s and those dangerous juvenile delinquents from that era - all we can do is say WELCOME ABOARD

 

I guess that is true, it just seems to me though that in all parts of the Hot Rod world from Hot Rod Magazine to SEMA, to the traditional style teens seem to get a lot of **** and little respect for even trying.
It seems like no one in the hot rod world even tries to get teens into hot rodding at all which kind of saddens me.

As for the 13 thats my lucky number.

 

All the mags you listed have websites. If you have any comments/suggestions for the mags just go straight to them. Hang out on the HAMB to read and learn.

 

Well, you could do what the hot rodders in the 50s did and write in to the magazines...

 

It's interesting, what you say. When I was a teenager in the 70s, they regularly published articles in Hot Rod about how engines work, how to work on them, etc. They made it look so easy that when I was 14, I took apart the 283 in one of the old cars my dad had. With help from the magazine articles, I was able to figure it all out and put it back together and get it running.

Write a letter to the editor....they do read them. But they don't act on all of them.

 

Rat Rod magazine...look for it in the newstands near you..Also can somebody call The SCTA circa 1937 and tell them they don't need to form for another 13 years..because some teens are going to invent hot rodding then....

 

It seems to me that you're looking for a way to contact the magazines you mentioned and express your opinion to them. I would think most, if not all, list contact info at the bottom of their contents page.

As for the way you have been treated by "older" guys, it happens. But it's not always older guys. It depends on where you are and what type of event you're at.

I've been into hot rods for a long time, but built one only five years ago. I go to shows and meets when I can. The times I was treated badly or shunned are few. VERY few. It takes all kinds to make up the world, some bad, some good. Just keep on moving till you meet the good ones.

 

I've been trying to contact all of the magazine I mentioned for months but with no luck, no replys to emails and they just put you on hold with the phone or tell you to call back later...
As for the being treated badly I was get **** more at general hot rodding (like hot rod magazine style) and drag racing events for having a budget built 89 350 powered s10 and not a $20,000 69 Chevelle or Camaro like most of those guys.

 

Damn! It seems all through out the 2000s the articles have always been heres what you can do with $10,000! and $5000 worth of tools.

 

I have been emailing and leaving suggestions for months with no replies

 

If you're talking L.A., yes there was. The whole Hot Rod thing pretty much grew out of the depression and the disire to go fast with no money. The lakes were pretty much happening by about '33 or so with the Gilmore time trials, and SCTA started in '37. After the war it spread through out the country because of guys exposure to it in the L.A. area while shipping out to the Pacific theater.
Every section of the country had it's own form of Hot Rodding to some extent before the war, but mostly it was based in different types of racing.

 

Yeah, it seems that now it's all about the money, a lot more than it was in the old days, although it's always been about the money to some extent. Advertisers pay, and they get their stuff promoted.

Fortunately we have the internet now, so the magazines aren't really that important. There's a heck of a lot of knowledge available right here on the hamb. If you ask good questions respectfully, you can expect to get all the help you need.

 

I think you are looking for CarCraft Magazine with your 350 S10.

Seriously tho, stick around, read some threads, keep your mouth shut, dont ask stupid questions and youll learn ALOT from this forum. Youll even learn how to give people ****.

Id seriously consider going to your local community college and getting in their auto program.

 

Bob Rufi was 23 when he built and ran his streamliner in 1940 he only did 140mph.







Dude your enthusiasm is great but just hold back a little read books search the HAMB and internet, you will learn the history and leave any preconceptions at the door.

Check out AHRF.com too.












This article is from an issue of 1941 Collier's magazine.

 

Well right now I am going to school for business management but it seems in the auto program its all geared imports and computers but thats how the auto industry is now, which is why I never bothered taking any auto cl***es and just learned from My grandfather instead. He thought me what engine to buy, how to swap it in and how to working on it.
I've tried contacting car craft as well and no replies, even car craft is all big budget builds now.

I've been a member in this forum for a little while now (only 90 posts) but I have always wondered why no major hot rodding magazine, club, show or group has ever put any effort into getting this generations teens into hot rodding. Sure there are a few teens besides me here on the HAMB but no a large amount of teens into Hot Rods, Drag Racing like back in the 50s and 60s.

 

What was the point of cutting up that corvette? It was stupid.

 

Cause there are few and far between kids who want to get greasy. Kids are hot rodding what they grew up with and it happens to be imports.

And as far as school goes, and engine still works the same(pump air in, pump air out), just run more efficiently with a computer controlling it all.

Hot Rod Ins***ute
http://www.hotrodins***ute.com/

wanted to go but just hasnt worked out.

 

Hot Rod ****s why would you wont them?