Petersen Publishing...back in the day...CARtoons, Hot Rod cartoons...to name a few...I grew up with them
I was thinking about them today and Googled up this thread. I dug them in late grade grade school and junior high in the early '70s. So let's have CARToons in general plant a tween's Dunning-Kruger level fantasy about how their first car is going to be such a huffed Hemi Hot Rod... (It was a red '73 F-250 that soon grew dual exhausts and those white eight-spoke wheels....)