Hot Rods Greatest Hot Rod Poster EVER.

I'd still defile gravity.....

 

I miss the original "American Rodder" magazine. I looked through one recently, lots of traditional hot rods, when every other magazine was an easter egg show. I'd say, they helped keep traditional hot rodding alive, during a very dismal time in car history.

 

Some people asked for a pic of the whole car (without the girls... pooftahs...)

Here you go...



And for those that aren't poofs...

 

you ain't about the hot rods dude, you are about the pretty girls. Can't say it's a bad poster, but far from a fave for me. Don't have anything better to post so better shut up. ~sololobo~

 

Hot Rod Magazine..Jan, 1993..CheZoom..no bathing suit but warms my perverted heart.....

 

Amusing , somewhat convoluted history lesson Brootal ...


Tman , Yeah but you got to watch this one , hes one of them there readers ....

 

I never understood '32 grilles on '33-'34s. Or filling quarter windows. That car's okay though, the broads are too.

 

It would have made a good AG car for Milner...I never thought the coupe used was very good..

 

yeah, i like the 32 grill shape, and the 34.. if it was me i would of used a 34.. but i guess the builder probably had a 32? shell laying around and used it.. its all good.. i know i never got into the Easter egg paint.. my first car was a 1969 baja bug, rattle can finish and i beat the shit out of that car.. growing u p in t the mountains of Oregon a car was not so practical.. we did have a few sweet cars in that one horse town.. but 90% owned 4x4 and the year we all wanted was the 1969 ford F250 highboy.. even tho high boy is just a nick name for that body style. iv not been back home in a long time so who knows if the logging roads are even open to the public anymore,.. would be a shame if they were closed down, i know i lived off the pavement.. and loved all the gas i spent cruising the mountains.

chris.

 

I opened the thread and Van Halen just started blasting out of my computer! This thing doesnt even have speakers!

 

I wonder how many are scratching their heads wondering what a Pooftah is!!

Doc.

 

Theres three (well, probably four) groups on here. The guys who pre-date that poster, lived through (and tried to ignore, and DO NOT want to be reminded of) that period, and still think it ( AND pastel street rods, big hair, AND disco) SUCKED HORRENDOUSLY, the guys who were young at the time of that poster, and thought it was cool, the guys that came after that poster, and think it sucked, because they DIDNT live through the pastel street rod era, and dont know how GAWD AWFUL it really was. There are also the guys who are so goddam old they pre-date the guys who pre-date that poster, and are wondering WTF anyone could possibly see in that poster...
So I guess how you feel about that poster is gonna depend on how old you were when it hit the news stand.

 

Falcongeorge has a valid point. I fell into the "young at that time" category. This type of poster was the norm, pastels, etc. And not knowing any better I liked all that crap then. You have to admit those 80's and early 90's rods beat the crappy new cars of the era hands down for looks. Personally I was into pickups and motorcycles, as a matter of fact a dorky ass 80's video by Aha turned me on to the whole cafe racer "Rocker" scene way before it was cool "again" LOL

At least we have the HAMB to give us direction on traditional rods, having discovered it I find the style to be more to my somewhat more mature tastes these days...those chicks are stil hot though! Big hair and all

 

I guess this Finnish ad was the first chick and car pic ever.

1907 A nude woman becomes the rapturous icon of the technological and sexual revolutions in a diabolic flaming red cabriolet built by Bil-aktie-Bol, Car Company, Inc. Bil-Bol is a visionary image that heralds the coming age of the automobile. By depicting a nude woman in a red cabriolet––one who appears to have been rapturously abducted––dashing through a night sky illuminated by stars, the design also looks forward to the automobile becoming a quintessential icon of the technological and sexual revolution in the global post-World War II community. Significantly, it would seem that already in 1907, Gallen-Kallela realized the commercial potential of fast cars and attractive women. The poster utilizes feminine beauty as a decoy to attract the male buyers eye. The poster is also one of the first commercial promotions in which the Dollar-grin fender of a fast car is exposed to the public. Gallen-Kallela received the commission for the poster directly from the owner of the Bill-aktie-Bolaget (translating directly as Car Company Inc.), Mr. Yrjo Weilin. Mr. Weilin took the designer for a wild ride through the streets of Helsinki in a Bil-Bol, scaring the hell out of pedestrians and horses alike. His drive in the red devils machine clearly served as an inspiration for the poster he would create. The stylized flames and stars surrounding the crimson vehicle echo Gallen-Kallelas Art Nouveau/Jugendstil visual language familiar from many of his fin-de-siecle paintings and graphic works. At the same time, Bil-Bol embraces a twentieth-century commercial poster aesthetic by elevating the luxury item as a fulcrum of the buyers’ desires.

This poster was featured in the recent Art Nouveau show in London and Washington D.C. Ghislaine Wood, assistant curator of the Art Nouveau exhibit, gave this appreciation of the Gallen-Kallela poster in the catalogue: Folk culture was often used as a vehicle to express modernity: “The Kalevala folk story of the Snatching of Kyllikki has been transformed: the sledge becomes a red car and Lemminkainen, the hero, is a besuited motor-car fanatic. Bil-Bol is perhaps one of the earliest advertisements overtly to endow a product with a value that is symbolic, here the promise of sexual fulfillment; a value that has been a mainstay of advertising in the twentieth century.” (Art Nouveau, pp 19-160).

 

fantastic in all ways

 

Kinda bummed after reading your whole paragraph and scrolled down to see that poster.... not my cup o tea

 

Why do those chicks in '91 look like they came straight out of about '83-85 instead?

 

Could a 'Pooftah' be flamin' 'mo, light-in-the-loafers, sissy mary, fudge packin. butt pirate, terd burglar, dick smoker of a fagula?

 

HAHA, no kidding.................by '91 they should have had greasy hair, ripped jeans and flannel shirts. The '90's were a hundred times worse than the '80's.

 

Spot on their cobba!

Doc.

 

Slammed, like the new avatar. A LOT.

 

That's on my garage wall.

 

I tried to find it to post it but I failed..

 

I agree.................100%

 

I like big hair on the top , not so much on the lower ! The chicks are cooler than the alternator !

 

George, you have hit it right on the head, oh wise one!

 

Newsflash! Irony entirely lost on forum due to insufficient use of emoticons!

 

American Rodder was cool, and combined the two things we guys love the most. Years ago I had one sitting on the coffee table and my Son's GF started looking through it. She asked him "Is this a pornographic magazine?" He said "No, just a hot rod magazine." But if I had those when I was 12 they probably would have been pretty dogeared in no time at all.

Don

 

LOL... Well, it is one of my favourites, but mainly because it reminds me of a time when hot rodding was still fairly new to me (I was in my early 20s) and I was just starting to get turned on to traditional stuff. I'd buy all these magazines filled with (as people so aptly named them) 'easter egg' cars and I'd hang out to see something with whitewalls and a flathead.