old car magazines

My dad called me today and told me to come over and pick up some old hot rod magazines. I went over and this is what is at my house now.
Not sure what I will do with all of them but I got them.

 

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enjoy them read them thank your dad for them thats real history your dad is passing on.

 

OMG!!! that is so cool, I love picking up old mags and reading them, My dad gave me a few boxes to along time ago from the 70's still have them and still read them.

 

cool. study them. tons of timeless information there.

 

Sort them out by title and year. Then you'll know what magazines you have. There are a some indices available to help you find articles.

 

+1 on that. I have almost the same batch of magazines plus several hundred more and I have never got them sorted out like I would like.

They are an invaluable reference both for Period correct items and the old tech that you can't find anymore.

If some of it isn't worth anything to you because of the subject matter put it up for sale on Ebay or some other site and pass it on to someone else.

And pretty soon when someone asks "what the hell is this?" on here you will dig through a few issues to find one just like it to scan and be able to tell them exactly what it is and what it was used for.

And if there are any old speed catalogs save them for sure because they are real references for the stuff we play with.

 

I had years of car mags, mostly Hot Rod and Car Craft from junior high and high school (~1981-87). Threw them all away one day in a fit of un-cluter-itise. Can't tell you how many times I've wanted them back
Keep'em.

Chris

 

This guy has some indices for magazines, check down at the bottom of his homepage.

http://www.hotrodindex.150m.com/

Remember to bookmark this so you can find it again.

There was a book out several years ago that had indices for Hot Rod, Car Craft, Popular Hot Rodding and I believe Rod and Custom.

 

Great score, it looks like they are in excellent shape too. You have lots of reading to do.

 

Wow, you are one lucky guy. I have only two mags from the '70's and a small stack of mags from the '80's I read through them all the time when I am bored. They have tones of great infromation. I can't tell you the number of guys I know that have used those mags to do a particular mod to their car.

 

Plus one on the advice to rack and stack. If you sort by title, and put the oldest on the bottom, as you get newer issues you just add to the pile. It really is the difference between having a stack of magazines and a library.

 

Well I conclude that I am old enough to be your Dad.

Magazines from the era where the reader was expected to be a doer/builder and not just a buyer/assembler.

 

Don't never get rid of them. Those are gold and your kids will get as much wood from them as you do. (Hopefully)

 

plastic milk crates make good organizers or older stand up filing cabinets are cheap or alot of times free. I have 7 full cabinets and 40 milk crates.

 

What bike magazine is that in the first pic?

 

Funny you said Milk crates, cuz that's what I use, stack them all up the the roof in my basement and that way when I need to use the little boys room I just go in there find what I want and go read.

 

Great find! I always like to look through old mags. After a couple of year, I forget what was in them anyway, and it's almost like going through a new one.

I hate to throw things away, but I had accumulated several of the flip lid plastic crates full of old mags. I had to do something with them because I was starting to run out of room. At the last swap meet, I set up a table next to my stuff and spread a bunch of mags out with a sign saying $1.00 each, $10.00/doz. Sold a couple hundred of them that day, made some room in my shop, and some other guys got to enjoy them for cheap. We all won.

What I didn't sell, I put back in the storage containers, and the next time I do a swap meet, I'll bring them back out.

 

Thanks for the tips and ideas guys. I plan to sort them very soon. then i will start to read so you will not see me on here for three years or so HA! HA!. my boys 19 and 13 have already tried to take off with some of them. I think they were taking the old nude mags.lol Mom busted them
I told them they see whats in there it would change them forever.
(70's porn)

 

It is an old street chopper. there were a few of them and some big bike and easy riders in there also

 

Great find! I've been collecting them for over 50 years.

 

I would have bought them all for that price!

 

Would have cost you a couple grand. I had/have a lot of mags. Make a trip to Houston for Spring Conroe, and you can do just that.

 

To cool, But I think he meant to send them to me. ENJOY! I cant get enough of the old magazines! Slim

 

You suck! That's a treasure trove right there... maybe not in the monetary sense, but in the sheer historical cool factor. Jealous.

 

I have a bunch of these as well--boxes full in the attic from the 70's-80's but in the past few years I also accumulated a lot more-took about 300 to a swap meet and put FREE on them-they all went away--now every month or two, I just box 'em up (mine, my neighbor's and my firend's)and sent them to the troops overseas-they seem to appreciate them

 

Tony made me and another buddy get a library card to come drool at his mags. What a pal. There is some kool reading in there. I think I'll wear out my card.

 

I'll have to start doing this, I have the full '62 year of HOT ROD in mint condition. It gets addicting collecting these.