Art & Inspiration What was the most influential Hot Rod or Car magazine cover to you?

Man, that one really got me too! I was fifteen when this issue came out, and I got it while cutting class at school. I would have to put this issue's cover in my top five overall...
I did think of another issue that got me - I believe it's the November '73 Rod & Custom. Anybody else remember the track roadster special with the Ron Weeks restored Kraft red car sliding across the cover?! I wish my scanner was cooperating right now...

 

I saw this when I was seven years old and it stuck with me for 50 years, until my own coupe was finally on the road..



-Dave

 

DON FERRARA: "HONK !" OCTOBER, 1953 !
Don is the Pioneer many never knew or remember...but I'll NEVER forget. A true Legend !
He could do Rods, Customs, Boats...everything !




Jonnie King www.legends.thewwbc.net

 

I'm a hot rod guy so this would be my favorite cover. 2 of my favorite cars of all time.

 

Phil Cool's AMBR-winning hiboy roadster and the Orange Crate.

 

A hot rod on the cover of Hot Rod was a nice change in 1978. That car made a lot people take a long hard look at their resto rod. The Nov. '73 Rod and Custom chopped top issue fired me up the most.

 

Glad I could help.

 

As of about a year and a half ago......This one

 

Absolutely "Coupes are for Chickens" Rod and Custom!

 

This was mine

 

The issue with Dean Lowe an his truck on it hung with me since the day I pulled it out of the mailbox . Still have it out in the stash. I instantly remembered that cover when I saw his name on here the first week I was on the board.
I've been accumulating rod magazines since the late 50's and have way too many to have a real favorite.

 

The HRM issue cover with all the quarter midgets in rows...don't have it but it always impacted me as a kid that wanted one! .....Anybody have one to post??

 

I don't have the magazine anymore but it was the Nov. '57 issue of Hot Rod. Not so much the cover but that issue opened my 12 year old eyes to Bonneville. It only took me 50 years to get there. That issue sealed my fate.

 

Here you go.

 

I still have this issue and it is awesome.

 

The only issue I don't have. I actually am partial to issue #5 since my truck is in it.

 

I think it was the cover of Car Craft from around 1970 it was an overhead shot of Kansas John Wiebes top fuel car and it had a blue cast to the picture. For a kid from Kansas to see a Kansas boy on the cover was to cool. I got to met Mr. Wiebe at the Leadsled last year what a nice man!

 

Sorry, I can't provide a picture ,but June 1963 Car Craft with a couple of shots of Daryl Starbird's Futuresta. I wish I actually had that issue too......... scrubba

 

This one did it for me. Absolutely bad-ass!

 

Finally dredged up a pic.

 

That was the one that got me hot to build a Track T. 12 years later, I started on one!

 

What a classic cover..........A picture of a flathead powered roadster, and at the top..........analyzing the Chevrolet V/8, by Racer Brown. (1955)!

 

You got that right Holmes!










That's about the time that Jack Webb walked in....

 

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A few that I obsessed over in highschool............

 

Mine was my uncles copy of dragnews 1965. Dont remember the month, but he was in there with his harley winning his class at OKC or ALBQ. GASSERS

 

I was going to look for this exact cover! Both cars define hot rod for me.