In my email today: RODDER'S JOURNAL #87 You may have heard rumblings about a new Rodder’s Journal heading to press, and we’re excited to tell you those rumblings are correct. TRJ #87 is at the printer and will be bound and shipped to the mailing house in short order. Many who stopped by our booth at the Grand National Roadster Show got a sneak peek at advance copies, but for those who weren’t there we wanted to show you what’s in store. We’re really excited by the collection of hot rods, customs, vintage dragsters and historic pieces we’ve assembled. There’s an amazing amount of mid-century rodding and racing history wrapped up in three of the features, including Pete Eastwood’s “Samurai”, a virtually NOS Top Fueler from the streamlined, ’chute pack era of drag racing; the immaculate restoration of the Barris-built Tom Hocker ’40 Ford; and a pair of ’32 Ford survivor roadsters with ties to the L.A. and Bay Area Roadsters car clubs. We also take an in-depth look at Cody Walls’ award-winning ’49 Buick custom, as well as a pair of well-traveled road warriors in Maryland hot rodder Andy Volpini’s flamed ’40 Ford coupe and ’53 Ford F-100. Veteran contributor Jay Fitzhugh delves into the subject of hot rod hardware, explaining how to identify and incorporate all manner of period correct nuts, bolts, connectors and fasteners in your build. And in our “Parts is Parts” feature, we evaluate the brand new, aluminum Red Ram Hemi heads and water pumps from Speed Dome Engineering. Contributors to this issue include longtime hot rod historian Greg Sharp, Jalopy Journal purveyor Ryan Cochran and automotive designer and now, Bonneville racer Larry Erickson, who reflects on the more than 75 year history of racing at Bonneville. As we mentioned, we attended the 75th Anniversary of the Grand National Roadster Show. And by all accounts it was very good show for all those concerned. It was truly a historic event. We extended our trip by a few days to enable us to photograph the event and a host of feature cars that we think are the basis for some really good issues including TRJ #88 and beyond. Stockpiling this material will also go a long way towards us getting back to a regular publishing schedule. We’ll give you a preview of some of this material shortly. We invite you to cruise over to our new website www.roddersjournal.com where you can subscribe, renew a subscription, change an address and where we will be adding more merchandise in the days to come. Check back frequently and keep up to date on the latest issue and related news to The Rodder’s Journal. Thank you, as always, for your continued support! Kind regards, Your friends at The Rodder’s Journal
Hot dog! @krylon32 wasnt pulling our leg! now before everyone starts staring at the mail box these typically take a WHILE to show up. I think it’s because of the way they are mailed. From memory I think the last issue took between 6 and 8 weeks from the email to actually showing up. So keep that in mind before you get worried yours has gone missing. im gonna mark the date on my calander and look forward to it
Still lots of people on their social media pages saying they haven't received anything in years and are getting zero replies to any attempted communication.
If you have not received the latest email try checking your spam folder. For some reason that is where I found it. @5window Thank you for the update! Looking forward to some good reading! ( and photography)
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