HOT ROD magazine NOVEMBER 1966 BONNEVILLE Speed Week Grumpy Jenkins Drag racing

In its sixty-plus years of existence, Hot Rod magazine has featured hundreds of cars on its cover. To those in the muscle car, street machine, and hot rodding hobby, having their car selected for the cover is the ultimate coup, a near unsurpassable bragging right. Often, the cover car is a landmark vehicle that sets new standards for years to come. Hot RodMagazine All the Covers showcases each cover in full color, along with images of the cover car from select issues.

In its sixty-plus years of existence, Hot Rod magazine has featured hundreds of cars on its cover. To those in the muscle car, street machine, and hot rodding hobby, having their car selected for the cover is the ultimate coup, a near unsurpassable bragging right. Often, the cover car is a landmark vehicle that sets new standards for years to come. Hot Rod Magazine All the Covers showcases each cover in full color, along with images of the cover car from select issues.

Hot Rodding began in Southern California in the 1930s and had spread throughout the United States by the mid 1950s, spawning the sport of drag racing and the advent of the Detroit ìmuscle carsî of the ë60s and ë70s. Hot Rod Magazine and the National Hot Rod Association promoted the formation of responsible car clubs to combat the delinquent reputation of hot rodders, earned through illegal street races and Hollywoodís portrayal in ìBî movies. And thus were born the Middletown Pacemakers in 1951. ÝÝThe Pacemakers brought southern Ohio its first reliability runs (1952), custom auto shows (1954), and drag racing competitionsósetting national records (1958, ë63, ë64) and winning national championships (1963, ë64, ë65). When the hot rodders were not busy upgrading their drive train for more horsepower or ìchoppingî and ìchannelingî for improved performance, they could often be seen on the streets of Middletown feeding expired parking meters or rescuing motorists whose cars had broken down or run out of gas. By 1966, as was the fate of so many hot rod clubs, the mass production of Detroit muscle cars ushered the Pacemakers to fold. ÝÝ

In its sixty-plus years of existence, Hot Rod magazine has featured hundreds of cars on its cover. To those in the muscle car, street machine, and hot rodding hobby, having their car selected for the cover is the ultimate coup, a near unsurpassable bragging right. Often, the cover car is a landmark vehicle that sets new standards for years to come. Hot RodMagazine All the Covers showcases each cover in full color, along with images of the cover car from select issues.

In its sixty-plus years of existence, Hot Rod magazine has featured hundreds of cars on its cover. To those in the muscle car, street machine, and hot rodding hobby, having their car selected for the cover is the ultimate coup, a near unsurpassable bragging right. Often, the cover car is a landmark vehicle that sets new standards for years to come. Hot RodMagazine All the Covers showcases each cover in full color, along with images of the cover car from select issues.

Aesthetics are at the core of hot rodding. And nothing captures the visual essence of the hot rod like Peter Vincent's photography. In brilliant color and fully-saturated black-and-white photography, Vincent will capture America's most essential hot rods, hot rodders, and racers in dramatic settings such as the Bonneville Salt Flats and California's dry lakes - the places from which hot rodders have always drawn inspiration. The majority of the book's photographs will get the same treatment: each will have its own page, surrounded by white space and properly cropped and framed to show off Vincent's photographic artistry. Woven throughout the book, Vincent will tell the story of hot rodding through interviews with the originators of the culture, land speed racers, and the new generation of hot rodders who are keeping alive the aesthetic sensibility of hot rodding.About the AuthorFrom the salt flats of Bonneville to the endless variety of dry lakes and drag strips that dot the American landscape, photographer Peter Vincent magnificently reveals the pure artistry of the cars themselves. Inspired by early associations with Ansel Adams and others, Peter's amazing images have appeared in popular enthusiast publications since the 1980s, including Rodder's Journal, Street Rodder magazine, Hop Up, and in his best-selling book Hot Rod, An American Original in 2001. In addition, Peter's works have been exhibited in museums and galleries from New York to San Francisco. Vincent lives in Moscow, Idaho.

In its sixty-plus years of existence, Hot Rod magazine has featured hundreds of cars on its cover. To those in the muscle car, street machine, and hot rodding hobby, having their car selected for the cover is the ultimate coup, a near unsurpassable bragging right. Often, the cover car is a landmark vehicle that sets new standards for years to come. Hot RodMagazine All the Covers showcases each cover in full color, along with images of the cover car from select issues.

Hot Rodding began in Southern California in the 1930s and had spread throughout the United States by the mid 1950s, spawning the sport of drag racing and the advent of the Detroit ìmuscle carsî of the ë60s and ë70s. Hot Rod Magazine and the National Hot Rod Association promoted the formation of responsible car clubs to combat the delinquent reputation of hot rodders, earned through illegal street races and Hollywoodís portrayal in ìBî movies. And thus were born the Middletown Pacemakers in 1951. ÝÝThe Pacemakers brought southern Ohio its first reliability runs (1952), custom auto shows (1954), and drag racing competitionsósetting national records (1958, ë63, ë64) and winning national championships (1963, ë64, ë65). When the hot rodders were not busy upgrading their drive train for more horsepower or ìchoppingî and ìchannelingî for improved performance, they could often be seen on the streets of Middletown feeding expired parking meters or rescuing motorists whose cars had broken down or run out of gas. By 1966, as was the fate of so many hot rod clubs, the mass production of Detroit muscle cars ushered the Pacemakers to fold. ÝÝ

The 1940s were the most important and exciting period in the history of hot rodding. Today's separate and distinct activities of street rodding, drag racing. lakes time trials and custom cars have all evolved from the hot rods of the 1940s. In addition, hot rodders have had a major influence on all areas of automotive activities including racing, styling, design and manufacturing. But over 60 years ago hot rodding included the whole thing. The rodders built, altered and maintained their own hot rods. Working on the hot rods provided a good practical education for the owners. Of course driving and testing at the dry lakes time trials or on the streets was more than half the fun. This book presents a look at the 1940's hot rodding through the pictures from rodder's photo albums. The emphasis is on the hot rods of that period. Roadsters, coupes and sedans are shown on the streets and at the lakes. Information about the hot rods, the owners, clubs and speeds are included with the photos. This book provides memories of the hot rods and guys for older hot rodders and shows the younger guys what the hot rods looked like and what the hot rodding activities were like over 60 years ago. Today many hot rodders are using the pictures in the book to get ideas for building their own traditional styled hot rod.

The first car in the Chevrolet Racing Legends Series is a tribute to Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins. It was Bill who Chevy owners rallied around when Chevy officially dropped out of racing in early 1963. This Chevy II Nova was the first in the popular series of Grumpy's Toys and it ran 11.25 ET @ 122 MPH! Bill went on to race Chevrolets for many years thereafter and is ranked #8 in the top 10 NHRA drivers list from 1951-2001. No one has contributed more to the advancement of normally aspirated engines for quarter mile drag racing than the legendary "Grump." This 1966 Nova 1:18 scale replica is now available with opening hood, trunk and doors and steerable wheels.