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| February |
Cover Story - Homebuilt Heroes (It took us weeks to sort through the 4,000ish entries in our cover car contest, but we got through it and discovered some really cool owner-built rides. So for those of you who always complain about "checkbook rods", here's your alternative) Dirt Cheap Racing - 20 Hours Of Lemons (Always wanted to go road racing but couldn't afford the bill? Here's how to do it and have more fun than should be allowed); Flashlight Drags (A bunch of hot rodders rent an airport runway, hire a cute girl to operate the flashlight, and the street racers and families come out in droves. We want to see more of this); Soap Box Racers (The most fun is usually had on the outskirts of sanity, somewhere between brilliance and mayhem. The San Fernando Valley Illegal Soap Box Federation has it down pat) Feature Stories - Goodbye, Wally (The man who helped create a hobby and a big-league sport, launched an industry, and entertained and informed us all through the pages of this magazine is gone. Here's how we remember him); Garlits' New Dragster (Big Daddy is back with a new dragster, but this one's just for fun. We're still waiting to hear the 392 new Hemi on 80 percent) Departments - Starting Line (I don't work here anymore); Holeshot (Goodbye Wally, David and Whitney); Bench Racing (Feedback on Junior's ride); Where It All Began (Big Daddy's trendsetting rear-engine digger); Roddin' At Random (A Top 100 Hot Rod is resurrected); Test And Tune (All kind of hot new parts); Pit Stop (Marian opens up a six-pack of carburetor questions); Finish Line (His new name is Fireball) Hot Rod Garage - 1,100HP Buildup (The latest saga of the Hot Rod Spl. Camaro shows how 30 people got together to build a 555ci, 14-71 blown big-block Chevy and set five new records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in one week); Intake Porting (Many people don't think to port their intake manifold, but there is power to be had. We test three different intakes on one engine, them port them all and run 'em again); How To Weld (Affordable MIG welders now allow anyone to fuse metal together. Here's what you need to know to conquer the fear and get started welding) |
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| September |
Cover Stories - They're Back! Vintage Funny Car Action (Inside the world of today's righteous and raucous vintage Funny Cars. It's like 1971 all over again) Feature Stories - TV Tommy Ivo (Drag racing's greatest showman sits down with us to relive the past through archival photographs. You'll like this one); '40 Ford 'Shine Car (Jim Blackburn's '40 coupe was inspired by the illegal hot rods built to run moonshine, but it's all modern speed and comfort underneath); Targa Acadian (A musclecar you may not have heard of at a race you probably haven't heard of, but both are truly bitchin', Check it); 9-Second Hemi Dart (We go cruising in a 9-second Dodge Dart, nasty tunnel-rammed Hemi, Lenco, and all); Top Speed Challenge (Action from the 4th Annual HOT ROD Top Speed Challenge in Maxton, North Carolina) Hot Rod Garage - 540 Chevy Parts Test (We take it up a notch with our 540 big-block Chevy in the quest for 800 hp. As Maxwell Smart would say, "Missed it by that much"); Dart's New Iron Block (The savior of small-block Chevy builders everywhere, Dart Machinery has just come out with an affordable 4.125-inch-bore cast-iron block. We go deep inside one with a chop saw to investigate it's guts); 4.6L Hop-Up (In search of more power with a Junkyard Jewel 4.6L two-valve Mod motor, we try different headers, carburetors, and intake porting); Three-Valve Cam Test (Comp Cams has a new cam swap kit for the late-model Ford three-valve motors that retains the factory variable valve timing) Departments - Starting Line (The Indy 500 is back); Second Opinion (Campbell's conundrum); Bench Racing (Dare to Be Different rules); Where It All Began (32 Funnies at OCIR); Roddin' At Random (The original rear-engine dragsters); Test And Tune (Neat stuff you need now); Pit Stop (More than you ever wanted to know about ammeters); World (Information about HOT ROD TV and HOT ROD Deluxe); Finish Line (The '55 Chevy 265 in cutaway) |
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| October |
Feature Stories - Pump Gas Drags (The 5th Annual HOT ROD Pump Gas Drags, presented by Comp Cams, was the best one yet, even if the finals were delayed a day by rain); Speed Demon (Ron Main's wicked, four-cylinder Salt Flats streamliner raises the bar and goes for 400 mph); Miller Cup Racing (We get in way over our heads by competing in the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge for the Miller Cup road-racing, a new FR500S Mustang. Witness our rookie mistakes) Hot Rod Garage - Crate Engine Comparo (The biggest, gnarliest crate engine thrash ever! We swap eight different GM Performance Parts crate engines into one car over four days and run each one down the track. Here's everything you need to know when it comes time to buying a GMPP crate engine); Header Shootout (Using a 700hp 540 Chevy, we test a bunch of different headers to show how primary pipe and collector sizes make a difference in power); The New 409 (The Chevy 348/409 engine was a dead player in terms of today's performance, but it has a new lease on life with Edelbrock's cylinder heads and modern technology) Departments - Starting Line; Second Opinion; Bench Racing; Where It All Began; Roddin' At Random; Test And Tune; Pit Stop; World; Finish Line |
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