how many of us read Hot Rod mag to learn ?

Just wondered how many of us on The Hamb read HotRod magazine in the 60's and 70's to learn auto mechanics? I spent my weekly pay when I was 9 years olsd 'til the 80's just for the articles about auto mechanics. They had some good stuff in them, then it went to how many ways you can build a little Chevy, and I got bored with HotRod,(FORD MAN)

 

I learned about B-ville and Pikes Peak from the real Hotrod mags of the 60's. There's nothing there now.

 

HotRoy may have been teaching something else...

 

uh learn to not drop the soap in prison showers?

 

HotROY was always wrapped in brown paper at the stores here. I couldn't reach it when I was a kid. Not that I'd want to....

 

HotRoy Magazine is only available in small markets, like West Hollywood. I don't think it's an instructional magazine, more of an "inspirational" magazine. But whatever you are into birdman1.

 

Popcorn.

 

I was always more drawn to ******* than HotRoy, but, if that's the way you roll, not that there's anything wrong with that...

Brian

 

Good ol' HotRoy magazine......special memories indeed!

 

I learned what I know from Sally Clapsaddle and Mary Sue Barnes. Mary Sue could do tricks that would give your cat the ****s. The only person I know who read HotROY back when I was in high school was the music teacher.

 

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Never frequented the market that kept "HotRoy on the shelf but I've had a subscription to Hot Rod since my 12th birthday when my grandmother ordered it for me and encouraged my involvement on working on cars.
I read every tech article again and again in those days and learned a lot of what I know about engines from them. It didn't matter what engine they were working with it was the knowledge that I wanted and not just an interest in a particular brand.

I just got the new issue in the mail yesterday and while it has some entertaining stuff in it like the two g***er Corvettes and Hot Rod drag week coverage but the guys on here might get more use out of page 98 and 99 as the subjects there seem to pop up on here at least once a week.

 

Had to do a google search for your buddy Hot Roy to figure out who You where talking about














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Wtf!

 

Haha, buying used wheels!

 

Not the brightest bulb in the house here but Hot Roy mag doesn't sound like my style.

Now Hot Rod is a different story, saw the light when an older cousin loaned me some of his to read. First I bought for myself had TV Tom's 117mph T bucket on the cover. Studied those late 50's issues more than schoolbooks, comparing captions and pictures was how I learned what various car and engine parts were called and from there what they did and how they could be modified or swapped around for more speed. Where I learned about events like Bonneville, National Drags, Pikes Peak, Darlington, and Daytona.

Ed

 

Is that Tim Tebow?

 

HotRoy ? Im happy to say I don't know him.

 

***le fixed to what I think the OP had in mind...

 

What, Ryan Leaf 2.0?

 

Thanks Alex, some might have been questioning thier manhood.............not you and I of course.

 

LOL, another thread spins outta control!

 

I learned first from the 1955 Motor Auto Repair Manual my dad bought to help him fix our 1952 Henry J. Treated everything in it like it was the secret key of knowledge. Looking back on it, yeah, it was. Later I discovered Hot Rod, Car Craft and all those other mags. I still have Hot Rod Engines, a paperback that included information about all V-8s.

 

I'd guess that HRM taught a couple of generations of gearheads how to READ, and enjoy reading. Hey, if all you're interested in is cars then car magazines are your meat and potatos.

 

Hot Rod was my car bible in the late 50's and 60's. Also Rod and Custom and some of the little books that for the most part are gone today. Couldn't wait for the newest issues to hit the newstand every month and it was like a treat when you looked down and saw the newest one actually had showed up.

The reason I am so bad in English and Math today is because of all the little books I had hidden in my textbooks, which I would read instead of studying in cl***.

Don

 

I enjoyed HR until early '70's .........read Super Stock and Drag Illustrated as well as Rod & Custom for a bunch of years but nothing these days on a regular basis .

T

 

starting reading hot rod in the late 50's --loved it ---then i discovered Drag News and realized it was [ hot rod] the major propaganda tool for nhra oppression--it was a distraction till they opened up their drag coverage after wally left---now i am hunting a real mag although i believe they are working hard to stay in publication i just don't like it-------everything i knew came from hot rod but there was nothing in it to help me with the knocking sound under the hood of my 40coupe when i was 14---i needed THE HAMB

 

One thing that Hot Rod does well is Hot Rod TV. Maybe all the segments aren't something everyone can like, but there is none of the usual TV drama and stupidness. There are also enough features on stuff we do like to make it worth watching.

Don

 

I didn't but them to learn, or even buy them for that matter, but a few years ago I lucked into a box with most of the issues from 1960-1972. Being as I had no TV at the time, I read them all, cover to cover,and the wealth of info was astounding, from the articles, to the letters to the editor, and even the "Dear Penzoil" ads were interesting. Lots of neat stuff. The first car mags I bought with my allowance were Car Craft, and the "Street Freaks" Specials in the early 80's. Definately had an influence on me, as I am running N-50 15s on the back of my Henry J.

 

In the fifties and sixties, HOT ROD as well as the other Petersen books actually had staff copy editors and the powers that be figured that they could make a gearhead into a decent writer. I still maintain that writers that learned on typewriters are better than the cut and paste computer users that are featured in some of the car books today.