Perry Mack
For the hot rod enthusiast, especially fans of Hot Rod Magazine, this is the essential ‘coffee table’ book to share with friends, or put in your waiting room to entertain clients, if you trust them not to walk away with it.
It is a book that not only explores the magazines coverage but also how hot rods have shaped our culture and the people drawn to the passion. 75 Years celebrates the in-depth coverage that has been created and published by the magazine's staff from the 40’s to today. Witness how HOT ROD has been on the scene for the entirety of the postwar performance movement with over 300 photographs and numerous articles detailing dragsters, roadsters, slingshots, Funny Cars, coupes, customs, lead sleds, muscle cars, and their builders and owners.
These are some of the pages that have captured the imaginations of gearheads everywhere by featuring the works of customizing greats like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Von Dutch, and George Barris, just to name a few. There's also a look at the great journalism of such hot-rodding legends as Gray Baskerville, and the creations of builders like Pete Chapouris, Boyd Coddington, Steve Moal, Roy Brizio, and Chip Foose—complete with decades of archival black and white, and colour photographs of the cars and personalities that comprise hot rodding history.
In the late 1940s, a young photographer and Army Air Corps veteran named Robert E. Petersen astutely noted the rapidly growing hot rod scene in Southern California. Buoyed by war veterans with tech savvy, disposable income, and a need for speed, the hot-rodding hobby was without much in the way of informational publishing. In a brilliant stroke, Petersen stepped into the void in 1948, launching HOT ROD magazine. Petersen Publishing would grow into a worldwide media empire featuring several publications. It has been a bumpy ride, but HOT ROD magazine still endures as one of the most iconic enthusiast publications ever.
The focus of the publication is the magazines history and future, with enough hot rod stories and images to satiate an enthusiasts hunger from intake to tailpipe.
- Format: Hardcover Book 208 Pages
- ISBN: ISBN9780760376256
- Size: 9.25 in x 10.88 in / 234.95 mm x 276.35 mm
- Published: November 8, 2022
- Imprint: Motorbooks
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