Hot Rod Mag Top 100 Hot Rods Of All Time Article

did the oscar meyer wienermobile make the list??..

 

we talkin' hot rods or talkin' ****???
Maybe our tongue is caught in our cheek?
Do we have a cut off date re hot rods?

 

The '67 Nova for me. I was at the Indy CC Street Machine Nationals when he motored in. I have been to hundreds of large shows since and have never seen a car pull in a crowd like Scott's Nova did. There were hundreds of people literally running towards the car as it was parking. Never seen anything like it.

I really don't see that same excitement at shows today. Maybe we have become desensitized to a degree due to the numerous high dollar cutting edge cars at any given show.

 

JimA,

You are in the magazine biz, correct? Why don't YOU publish a list of all the cars YOU think should be the top 100. Then when people cry about why Rex Shimmlers (sp, I know) car made the list but Niecamps didn't, YOU can explain why.

If you don't like it, don't read it. Oh, btw ,"YEEEEEEE HAWWWWW!"

Jay

 

No. The General Lee to me is a TV prop like The Incredible Hulk or the Love Boat. Totally unrealistic after watching it land hard, bend in half and then drive away without a dent after fender banging with Roscoe for 10 minutes. Then when they started jumping the plastic toy cars- FORGET ABOUT IT! Never once was I "INSPIRED" to run moonshine or shoot flaming arrows

 

I stand corrected then.

I guess it's like picking the 100 best looking women of all time... I'm partial to Doris Day myself, but I bet it'd be someone like Jessica Simpson.

Jay

 

O.k. the mailman finally got done reading mine. I was surprise to see that I recognized almost all of them on the list except for a couple of them. Some I haven't seen in years or even thought about lately. I can see where these all could be on someones list but for me I would say Are they Recognizable? yes but did this whole group influenced me? no, maybe 25% of them did.

 

First of all the General was built by Barris. So it was built by a famous Custom Car and Hot Rod builder.

And it might not be a old Ford or a "real Hot Rod".

But for sure it's the ****in' coolest car that ever was shown on the TV screen around the world!

And yes I can proove it!!!

There is a guy in my town, who I met about 4 years ago. He was into old VW's.
Wrenchin' the whole day on 'em....

He saw my cars, and one day he said to me: "Man that orange car in that TV series got me into cars when I was a kid! Before I did not recognize cars really. That car was what made me the man I am now!"
At the moment he is building a '55 Mercury Coupe Kustom he bought of me.
Talkin' 'bout influence!!!

The little son of my X girlfriend, just needed to see the old Dukes beginin' Trailer one, just one! time, and he never stopped askin' "Can this car also jump like a "CHARGO?"" when he sees one of my rides! he wants to hear Johnny Cash and Jerry Reed music. He says "Chargo Music", because of Waylons Good old Boys and the rest of fiddlin' tunes from that flicks. (I was killed by East Bound And Down and Smokey And The Bandit in 1980! Never recovered really!)
And u will find one out of 20000 people here in ****in' Germany who like/know/hear Country music (unless they are hangin' around me ) He even rants and raves when his mother does not play his favourite Country CD in the car, and some gay sound comes on the radio. Good boy! Could be mine, but isn't.

And other, especially young people tend to freak out when that orange junker drifts in the dirt!

And as a kid here in Germany I did not see that car in TV, 'cause when I was young I did not see it, 'cause we did not have that cable TV.
But I saw pictures, and I had a ERTL model in 1:64 and I knew this is that car from that american TV series, that I have heard of, and haven't seen yet.

The same car that I had from MATCHBOX SPEED KINGS as a Dodge Dragster with a Supercharger out of the hood! This was the superblaster!!!!!

A cool car. a real cool car. A Hot Rod, maybe or maybe not (Maybe not for everyone's old style 1950's mind here) a influence for a lot of us! Even for u! Yes. The top of them 100? Maybe, maybe not. It doesn't matter really. It's all part of the deal.

Yes I have a '69 Charger R/T 4 Speed. (I wanted a 68 though in Bullit Black!)
u gotta take what u get these days.

It won't be a Lee clone of course! Triple Black is the word, with old Ansens. Shift dem Geers with that Pistol Grip!!!!

Cheers!

Ah yes when it comes to the ultimative Hot Rod shoot out, then the TWO LANE BLACKTOP '55 would be hard to beat!
A real Hot Rod for me!!!!

 

The General Lee. I can't belive I just typed that name on the H.A.M.B.! I too was influenced by this car when I was a kid, and it did start me on the road to hot rodding. I still love the show Dukes of Hazzard, I still remember all those days spent pretending to be Bo Duke & jumping all my old toy cars over speedbumps & stuff. The car that influenced the most kids to like cars? Probobly the General. As much as I am TOTALLY STOKED that the General Lee made #1, I'm not totally convinced it is really holding the right trophy. I think the numbers were unnececary, just list the cars without the ranking. that would have been better.

It seemed like EVERY car I've EVER seen on T.V. or in a magazine was on that list.

Later- John

 

For a 8 year old kid who was just given a copy of Hot Rod Magazine to read and seeing Bill Neikamp's AMBR winner it became the stimulus for a lifelong obsession with cars. And 50 years later when someone mentions the term "hot rod" that 's the first image that comes to mind. To be sure there have been a lot of cars that fit the description since that "fateful" day, there had to be, but Bill built "Webster's definition" in my book.

Frank

 

Ah so what ya mean with that?






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