Hot Rod - 1975

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January
Features - Reader's Renderings (The five best in our contest), VW For 1975 (Two brand-new fun cars from Volkswagen), Now I'll Just Run This Bolt Down (Hand tool buyers guide), West Coast Van Nationals #2 (Over 900 vans rolled into King City), Fine Vinyl (Low-cost, high-quality murals made easy), Super Meet '74 (NHRA's World Finals / Supernationals), The Fuel Ban (Is this the year they ban nitromethane?), 1975 NHRA Rules Changes, Rally 'Round the Woods, Boy (An in-depth look at a way-out look at motorsports), 1974 Feature Index (Everything that happened in Hot Rod in 1974) Technical - The Gapless Ring (If you can think of any disadvantages to better sealing piston rings, we'll give you ten advantages for them), Have It Your Way (B&M's in-car automatic transmission kit), New Angle Anglia (Project Anglia gets a new frame), Auto Shop Series (Arc wielders), Project Manta - Part Three (PR gets brake lines, air shocks, radiator and body), More HP For Your TC Vega (How to make your Cosworth walk tall), Not-So-Little Guys (A herd of Pintos are running wild in Stock Eliminator) Cars - Payne 'N Pleasure (Payne is Larry and Pleasure is an A/Street Roadster(, One For The Looks (Jerry Altman's 210 hardtop '55 Chevy), Triple Threat Vette (Dan Nicoletti and his street/strip/show 'Vette), Four To Go (John Anderson's turbocharged Top Fuel Dragster), '34 Ford (Bob Murray's coupe reepresents the spirit of St. Louis), Superfly (Big Stacy and Poor Will have a brand new '74 Mustang II pro car), Defiant One (Don Kohler's A/MR just won't give up), Gardner's Killer Vega (A dyno-mite machine from the Green Mountain) Motorcycles - Suzuki's RE-5 Rotary (Think you can handle it?) Departments - Editorial, Post Entry, The SEMA Scene, Roddin' at Random, Reader's Page, Catalog News, Coming, Shop Talk, What's Hot, Hot Rod Mart
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February
Features - Rompin' At The Playboy (NESRO Rood Run), Here Comes The Supershoot! (1975 1/2 Ford Vans), Salt Lake City Car Show, Sweet Meat (The Hershey Flea Market had high prices for old pieces), Formula 5000 (Now here's some racing that everybody can get behind) Technical - Pivot Problem Solver, More Ford Race Goodies (Moroso / Gapp & Roush Ford race-only parts), Hot Rod Basic Series - Pistons, New-Angle Anglia (Completion of the frame), Portable Power (Auxiliary generators from Honda), The Missing Link (Bolt-on accessories from Morose/Dauernheim), Try Driving Lights (Accessory driving lights from Desert Dynamics), Chevy Up (Part seven), Auto Shop Series (Arc Welders - Part two), Five With Overdrive (Borg Warner T-50 five speed), Inducting The Ford (Manifolds from Offenhauser, Weiand and Edelbrock), Putting a Lid on Your Pickup (Easy-to-install tonneau covers), A New Slant For MoPar Wedges (Sl;ant plugs for the MoPar B engines), The 12-Bolt Bandage (Geis rearend cure) Cars - Don't Stepp On Me (Feature on Billy the Kid's Pro Stocker), Once in a Brew Moon (The filming of a Budweiser commercial), Kolor Me Kustom (Vinnie Bergeman's van (?)), The World's Fastest Roadster (Chauvin Emmons on the salt), Don't Mess Around With Jim (Jim the Painter's incredible truck), The Jets Are Back (Romeo Palamides and Roger Gustin and their NHRA-legal jet), A Dirty Revolutionary (Pete Chesson's dirt tracker) Motorcycles - The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (Russ Collins' three-engine drag bike) Departments - Editorial, The SEMA Scene, Roddin' at Random, Post Entry, Reader's Page, Shop Talk, What's Hot, Catalog News, Coming, Hot Rod Mart
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March
Features - Chicago Car Show, Oval Tracks - The Great Equalizers (There's plenty of action in the dirt), Midget Auto Racing - Will It Ever Grow Up?, Howard Koby (One-man show by noted racing photographer), Automotive Enthusiast's Directory (Updated) Technical - Headers and the Catcon (Can catalysts and headers live happily ever after?), Chevy Up (Part eight), Tomorrow's Corvette Today (Putting rectangular lights into round holes), Power Valve Parade (Tuning Holley's means more than just changing jets), Auto Shop Series (Gas welding), The New Mexico Connection (Not all fast things from Albuquerue are driven by Unsers), Project Manta - Part Four (Eighty hours have long since passed), Take The Extra Trunk (Haul that extra stuff with style in this mini-trailer), W.I.N. (End inflation problems with these auxillary air compressors), Just Another Corvair? No Way! (Stuffing an Olds Toronado into a Corvair), From Detroit, With Love (MoPar gives racers a Direct Connection), New-Angle Anglia (Part III), Gearing For Go (Putting gears in those early Chevy positractions) Cars - Computer Kane's Midget is a Whole 'Nother Deal, Once Upon A/Comp (A small three-inch Hemi gets some traditional clothing), Camavairvette V8 (Three popular Chevy products are molded into one winning show car), Olds VW Just For Fun (This '62 Vee Dub got a big dose of V8 vitamins), Alexander's Ragtop Band (Cover car), Hemi Belair With Flair (The result of four years and $11,000), Blue Max (The latest from Schmidt and Beadle) Motorcycles - Racing Action (Color highlight of the Barstow-to-Vegas Hare and Hound), Super Shaftie (Top-of-the-line BMW R90s) Departments - Editorial, The SEMA Scene, Post Entry, Roddin' at Random, Shop Talk, Reader's Page, What's Hot, Catalog News, Coming, Hot Rod Mart
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May
Features - Indy Super Pull (Tractor-pulling's premier event); Stormin' Between Storms (Garlits, Prudhomme and Glidden, again); Where The Cars Are The Stars (Movie cars at Petersen's Hollywood Autorama); Why Don't We Do It Off The Road (At the AC-Delco Parker 400); Karting '75 (Look what they've done to those karts, ma); Hey, Taxi (Seventeenth annual Daytona 500); Hello, Columbus (Nationwide Rod Shops '75 lineup) Cars - Warming Up For Indy (Is this the last year for the awesome turbocharged machines of yore?); Foundation For Fun (John Buttera's latest chassis is a real smoothie); Vac-U-Pan (More performance by eliminating blowby gasses); New-Angle Anglia, Part 6; Auto Shop Series: Rear Suspension Systems; Venom For The Vega (Proven hop-up parts for Chevhy's smallest); Superstud (Beef up those beetle studs with this kit) Motorcycles - World's Fastest Six-Cylinder Door-Slammer; Supercharged Stogie (This Pinto-powered cigar smoked the record books at Bonneville); Squashed Shevy (Dick Lamp's chopped and shortened van) Departments - Editorial; Roddin' At Random; Post Entry; Shop Talk; Readers' Page; Coming; Catalog News; What's Hot; Hot Rod Mart
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June
Features - Free Horsepower: The Forgotten Fundamentals, Facts About Fillers: Lead vs, Plastic (What's involved with using the two types of body fillers), Plasma Performance (Aerospace plasma coatings as heat barriers, friction coatings, corrosion fighters), Laternationals (is what you call an NHRA Gatornationals race held over one day due to rain), The Shiftless Spectrum (A look at the current B&M product line), Ridge Route Rain Renters Run Riot (Six 5s in a row win Bakersfield for the Warren & Coburn team), Shop Series: Wheels & Tires Technical - Van Gauge Panels Made Easy, Chevy Up - Part 9 (The junkyard dog 283 goes back to Edelbrock's dyno and cranks out at 201 horses), Louvers In Glass (Yes, you can put customizing or cooling louvers in fiberglas-bodied cars), HRM Dodge Van Project (Pearl paint, flares, quad headlights and a spoiler improve your Tradesman), HRM Ford Van Project (gets underway with the installation of a smoke-gray roof light panel for $100), New-Angle Anglia (Pete and Jake move to the engine compartment to locate mounts for the Capri V6) Cars - Heavy Hitters (Buehl, Cirino & Rhoades' Top Fueler), Don Quixote, Texas Style (Pete Grower's semi-factory van from Texas), Sundance (What better name for a Phoenix-based Funny Car that runs 6:30s at over 230?), Splendid Sprinter (Don Blair has been after CRA's Number One plate for 24 years), Touch of Class (Don and Sandy Schulstad's AMC-powered '23 T) Motorcycles - Pardon Me Boy, Is That The Bean Burrito Choo-Choo Departments - Editorial, Roddin' at Random, Post Entry, What's Hot, Coming, Catalog News, Shop Talk, Hot Rod Mart
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July
Features - How Ya Gonna Keep Him Down On The Farm After He's Seen In-Dee? (Warren & Coburn), All-Purpose Supercar (Harris Kern's Chevelle 396 cover-car), Up-Front Chevy Spark (The Summers Brothers move the small-block distributor one giant step), Racing Action (Ed McCulloch's mighty Funny Car), Truck-In Checklist (Some things you may have forgotten to take along), Metrics - American Style (Lots of info about the Metric system), Westward Go (A pictorial look at the first annual Street Rod Nationals West), All That Glitters Is Not Gold Leaf (A new way to letter your car), Mighty Midget Modifieds (Motorcycle-powered replicas of early jalopies) Technical - Unbelievable! (Joe Sherman's $5000, 9-second, 143-MPH AHRA Chevelle), New-Angle Anglia (The project car takes shape with it's new front axle), Elephant Oiler (Keith Black's multiple solutions to the hemi-oiling system), Budget Sand Buggy Project (For $2300 you too can have a pure-fun vehicle that flies), Talkin' Torque (An updated look at the need for torque-wrenches and what's available now), Torque Plate Tracker (Everything you always wanted to know about head plates for racing), Disc Plate Kits Late 'n Early (What's available in kit form for today's brakes on older cars), Dodge Van Project (Plywood, screws, glue and wallpaper make for a multi-purpose interior) Cars - Screamin' Yellow Zonker (Bob Chrisman's original-style highboy), Unchained Lightening (Shirl Greer's fabulous Mustang II Funny Car), "Just Me And My Merc-U-Ree" (Bill Wendt's '50 Merc recalls the Fifties), White Lightning (Britisher John Wilsheer bought a '67 Camaro to go) Motorcycles - Twin For The Road (Norton's 850 Commando Interstate) Departments - Editorial, Post Entry, Roddin' at Random, Shop Talk, Catalog News, Coming, What's Hot, Hot Rod Mart
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August
Features - Luv Is In The Air (Mickey Thompson's 170-mph race truck), In The Market For A Used Van? (Some shopping tips), Ford Project Van, Part II (Breathin' free and easy), Truck & Van Color Pictorial Section, Truck & Van Goodies Buyers Guide (New parts and pieces), Project Anglia: Motor Mounts & Steering Technical - Ports Of Haul (Why Chevy 302 race engines run so well), Vinylize Your Van (Vinyl tops for vans are easy to do), New Ride For Old Rails (Modernizing street rod chassis), Squeeze-A-Seal (All kinds of gaskets that come in tubes), Put A Stop To Rock & Roll (Not the music, the mini-trucks), Project Dodge Van: Part III (Overdrive, CB, paint and more), Budget Corvair Sand Buggy (Five different engines dynoed) Cars - Something Nasty From Waukegan (Blown street custom Camaro) Departments - Editorials, Post Entry, Roddin' at Random, SEMA Scene, Reader's Page, What's Hot, Shop Talk, Catalog News, Coming, Hot Rod Mart
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September
Features - The Indy 500 Economy Run (If only it hadn't rained); Project Ford Van (More frosting on the prize cake); 'Goose vs. The Navy (...match race of the century); Winstonationals (The smoke returns to drag racing); The Four Most Important Cars In California (A SEMA test program); Gentleman, Start Your Careers (Automotive schools) Technical - 575-Inch Mastodon (Inches are everything); Captain Cobra Jet And His Magic Engine Machine (Race building the 428); Dial A Tune (Precision turning with the latest instruments); Chevy Up, Part 10 (Aftermarket bolt-ons); Plate It Or Paint It (Pros & Cons of plating); Go With The Flow (Fuel system technology); Seal Of Approval (Intake manifold gasket improvements); New Angle Anglia (Steering arm and shocks) Cars - The King Of The Hill (Seth Hammond's hill killer); Racing Action (Bob Glidden's Wheelie poppin pro stocker); Soda Pop Flopper (The Bubble-Up Monza) Departments - Editorial; Roddin' At Random; SEMA Scene; Post Entry; What's Hot; Shop Talk; Catalog News; Coming; Hot Rod Mart
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October
Features - Racing Action (Blown drag boats in trouble at Long Beach Stadium), Scoring In Ensenhada (SCORE's first Mexican off-road race of 1976), Chevy In A Chevy Land (Jim Bucher and Jim Liberman win Summernats), Dem Machines In Des Moines (NHRA Street Machines National coverage), Chevrolet Power (Volume one, number one of Chevy's own race parts book) Technical - Chevy Up On The Salt (Our 292-inch mouse goes 134 mph at El Mirage), Streamlined Crankshafts (Hank the Crank cuts corners for more power), Math For Racers: Update 1975 (Mini-computers can help build engines), Shifting Chevy's Sparker (Several new up-front Chevy ignition kits), Project Ford Van (Twelve speakers, CB radio and antenna make super sound), Valvetrain Selection Guide (Everything under the sun for more revs), Clutch Basics (What happens when you push the pedal and why), Project Anglia: Volvo Disc Brake Swap (Easy, cheap and effective brakes), Crack Patch (What to do when your cast-iron block and heads leak) Cars - A Family Affair (Ricci Ware's entire family life is cars and racing), Pro Pop (Brogie & Silvera's $22,000 C/Altered Anglia (Pop) cover car), Behind The Green Three-Door (Don Thelen's restored rod Ford panel) Departments - Editorial, SEMA Scene, Roddin' at Random, Post Entry, Racing Action, Reader's Page, What's Hot, Shop Talk, Catalog News, Hot Rod Mart
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November
Features - Indy '75 (Big Daddy's fourth national title is only part of it all), 1975 New Car Report (An overview of the fuel-savingest cars in years), Truck-In '75 (Over 4600 vans and 18,000 truckers make one great party), Van Pictorial Section (Some of the best from Bowling Green and all over), Van Styling Sketchpad (A handful of workable, original custom ideas), HRM Dodge Project Van (A whole host of add-ons joins the new ceiling), Safety Stuff (A look at what's available for driver and car protection), HRM Project Ford Van (Color and black and white interior details) Technical - Jammin' With Jimmies (Exactly how to set up GMC superchargers for street), Van Tire & Wheel Tips (What you really want may not always be right), Press To Test (Some tricks with a homemade hydraulic press), $40 Garage Fire & Burglar Alarm (Practically foolproof, cheap protection) Departments - Editorial, SEMA Scene, Roddin' at Random, Post Entry, What's Hot, Shop Talk, Catalog News, Coming, Hot Rod Mart
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