# Hot Rod Magazine: 75 Years - Hardcover

by **Drew Hardin** (Author)

**Here** **is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of the world's longest continuously published and best-known automotive magazine.**

**_HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years_** celebrates the stunning content that has been created and published by the magazine's staff in all or parts of nine decades. Witness how _HOT ROD_ has been on scene for the entirety of the postwar performance movement with photographs and articles detailing **dragsters**, **roadsters**, **slingshots**, **Funny Cars**, **coupes**, **customs**, **lead sleds**, **muscle cars**, and their **builders and owners**.

Take a look back through pages that have captured the imaginations of gearheads nationwide by featuring the works of **customizing greats** like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Von Dutch, and George Barris, 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 color 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. Today, _HOT ROD_ magazine endures as **one of the most iconic enthusiast publications ever**.

_HOT ROD_ is not simply a magazine--after 75 years, it's still _the_ magazine of automotive enthusiasts, known and appreciated the world over. This is the definitive and officially licensed look back at that influence.

### Author Biography

**Drew Hardin** started his work in automotive journalism while still in college in the late 1970s and joined Petersen Publishing in 1986 as a staff editor _for 4-Wheel & Off-Road_ magazine. Since then, he has served as editor and editorial director for several publications, including _HOT ROD_, and as a contributor to quite a few more, on topics ranging from vintage hot rods and classic muscle cars to 4x4s and alternative-fuel vehicles.

**Number of Pages:** 208

**Dimensions:** 0.93 x 11.11 x 9.5 IN

**Publication Date:** November 08, 2022

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