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Cars, April 1961

October 26, 2009
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I was rooting through my old automotive magazines last night and came across one I didn’t even remember having. It’s the April ’61 issue of Cars, a product of Royal Publications. (It was later renamed Hi-Performance Cars) This mag is in terrible condition, mainly because of the cheap paper it was printed on. The paper [...]

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Hop Up, March 1952

July 19, 2009
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Now this is a trip back in the way, waaay back machine! This is the March 1952 issue of the magazine Hop Up, a publication from the early years of auto customizing and hot-rodding. In the late ’40s/early ’50s the art of making a car go fast, or look fast, was still in the formative [...]

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These Krates are the Kookiest!

June 28, 2009
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Have you noticed the recent popularity of retro-styled custom cars? Suddenly people who were born well after the original hotrod craze of the ’50s are building custom ’27 “T-buckets”, ’32 coupes and ’55 Chevys (and just about any other car from the ’30s through the ’60s), either styled for the dragstrip or in a custom [...]

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