Hot Rods Greatest Hot Rod Poster EVER.

Alright all you clowns that are about to start uploading your version of what is the greatest hot rod poster ever.

There's no question mark at the end of the title to this thread, there's a FULL STOP.

While doing a bit of research for a story I'm doing on a '37 Ford Pickup (forever now known as a 'Rudy Truck') I was reminding myself of the impact that Rudy's truck had on the hot rodding scene back in the early 'noughties'. What I didn't realise was that Rudy had already been featured, and caused quite a stir apparently, when a '34 coupe he owned was featured in American Rodder back in 1991.

I didn't recall that car and a quick Google search didn't turn up anything either, so I turned to my trusty old collection of hot rod magazines. I've got a bunch, like most of you I imagine, but you know how it is, the one you want is always the one that is missing.

Well, not tonight baby. I dug out that gem of hot rodding history, the March 1991 issue of AR, found the article and read through it. Then when I was flicking through the rest of the magazine I stumbled across the centrespred (practically a CENTREFOLD!) and it all came flooding back to me.

I present to you the GREATEST HOT ROD POSTER EVER. No question.

 

Really - ya think? Oh well....

 

not my cup of tea, but good for you that it means that much to you.

 

Looks like every poster American Rodder did!

 

Hell yeah... I think I had it hanging on my bed room Wall!

 

My girlfriend had that same hair, aaahh big hair...I don't miss it Does bring back memories though. I'm pretty sure it doesn't have my vote as best hot rod poster though.

 

not my vote for best hotrod, streetrod? none the less, it is my new wall paper for my computer.. and the big hair, i do not miss it either.. the big bangs, heh.. 91 i would of been like 16? at 16 my thing was baja bugs...
good memories.
chris.

 

Yea, not so much.

 

Not bad, but i'm still kinda partial to David Mann's "Sunset Strip" myself

 

'91 I was helping run a bunch of Iraqis out of a little bit of sandy beach called Kuwait. So any chick (no really, any chick) and any hair style would have been great I think the poster represents my taste in what was cool that year though. I mean I turned 20 that year an ZZ Top's car was still the coolest thing ever ha ha. I can see having hung this up in my locker if I'd had it.

 

Mmmmm....Whitesnake video. She was 25, I was 3 but the chemistry was hot.

 

that car bucked the high dollar street rod trend back then. Its was an old hot rod with filled 1/4 windows and early Olds powered. Axle owned it for a while

 

Yes, the new guys here don't understand the significance of that car and what it meant in the days of heartbeat graphics!

 

Hey, that's my MOM!

Cool, but very ZZTop-ish

 

I'd rather see a photo of that car without the chicks. they have all the good parts covered up, so why bother.

 

Somebody lay it out for us then

I was around but as a young adult the heartbeat stuff was what I liked! Don't repeat that anywhere though, it's not like I want to advertise that ok..shhh

 

those chicks have changed in 20 years

 

now that's funny!!!!

 

Is the second pic different? Lemme git my glasses....

 

Brootal Im with you great poster . I kinda miss American Rodder magazine. One thing about the 80's and the 90's they sure were not scared to put a picture of girl on a car in a magazine.

 

Best hot rod poster ever?......


'Nuff Said........

 

Nothing will ever beat Hot Rod Race by Robert Williams.

Especially that 80's peice of fluff in the OP!

 

Well nice rear end, but what are those nails, forerunner to pierced everything?

 

yeah, whatever...

 

I thought things were up-side down in Australia...apparently theyre all sorts of f-ed up...

 

EEEERRR AAAAAhhhh.... T-Man is dead right! It is inconcievable to me that some of you guys are young enough to not remember when that poster was current. But what also escapes me is that allot of you guys seem to not go far enough back to remember when pastel paints and the first billet wheels were ALL you saw at events coast to coast. But I do realize that in the twenty years that has ensued, I have gone from a 26 year old "young gun" (SUPER rare in those days!!) to a 46 year old "greybeard" (well clear since I'm blonde). I'm just saying, unless you were there, you can't believe how significant that little coupe was! I hadn't seen a set of "pie crust" slicks in use on a car since I was a little kid in the late sixties. An Olds? Same deal! Just tons of turquiose and pink, toe the line and be like everybody else. I never thought that was the greatest car or poster, but would fight that it was one of the significant shots across the bow that has lead to what we enjoy today. Funny though, I still have the same Hot Rod in my driveway!

 

You guys down under must have had a long winter....

 

Back in SE Asia, a million years ago, those were known as Hong Kong bras.

 

Wow, mine is from Hong Kong... She and all of her sisters together couldn't fill that bra!

 

look a traditional rod when most of today's traditional rodders drove mazda pickemups lol