Art & Inspiration Hot Rod Trading Cards

I ended up finding a good size set of Hot Rod Trading Cards today at a local auction. This set was put out by the International Championship Auto Shows. I don't know how many were available, but this is the set I got.

Curious to know how many different series of Hot Rod and Custom trading cards there are out there? Anyone else have some examples?

I think I may put these in a shadowbox or something nice to show them off.

 

That’s cool. Never collected baseball cards but I would collect those.

 

I have some from this set as well.

There are also smaller Barris cards.

 

Those are great! I have one of the Ruby T like @Sancho ‘s from Barris.

 

I've got a ton of those that I bought everytime I went to"SHOPPERS WORLD" with my Mom. Put a coin in the machine and out comes some cool cars. Was just looking at them yesterday. Some weren't really Hotrods per-say, just show cars or one offs maybe. Mitch

 

I have some newer ones

 

Do those come with a stick of bubble gum?????....

 

Those are really neat, I don't think I've ever seen those before...

 

Those Barris cards are cool! And @swade41 its neat that they had an idea to do that as late as 2018 with older style drag cars on em!

Personally, I'd have to p*** on the gum!


Great......another thing to have to collect...

 

Kustoms Illustrated would put a trading card in each issue, I think just for subscribers. Its about the size of a post card. I have a couple of other ones, but then a whole stack of the Taboo ones, lol.

 

@Taboo56Chevy that is one of the many reasons I love Custom Illustrated!

@Moriarity looks like I have a lot more to collect. Wonder how many of this style was produced? You have any idea? It looks like many more than the 32 as stated.

 

When I was a kid I used to buy some cards that had show cars on them at the drug store up on the corner. I never got a complete set....I don't know where they landed....I do remember those vivid candy and metal flake paint jobs though.

 

Holy Schnikeys! Thats a lot of cards!

 

Oh great...another new obsession. Way to go Mark.

 

I remember those. I still have about 10 or 12 somewhere in my stuff. Mine were all color as I recall.

 

I don’t know what this says about me but I can identify 17 of the owners and/or builders of these 21 cars.
I’m not sure if it’s the sign of a misspent youth or just a good memory.

 

Dang Mark! That's cool.