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Hot Rod Legends Tuesday Time Capsule
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Ed Pink: “Old Master” of Motorsports

July 22, 2019

Ed Pink is a study in contrasts. Slight in stature and soft spoken, words escape from between his graying mustache and goatee with a humble gentleness. This understated manner belies the volume sounded by his accomplishments, for Pink, now 88, is perhaps the most renowned

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Sam Foose – Before Chip There was Sam

June 24, 2019

Foose. It’s a name as essential to the history of hot rodding as Parks, Petersen, Roth, Shelby, Barris, and dozens more. It’s the purpose of this column to chronicle these giants, the icons who created the hobby we enjoy today. Foose is just such a

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Black Magic – Keith Black, Drag Racing’s Iconic Engine Builder

May 22, 2019

Anyone with even a passing interest in drag racing has heard the name Keith Black. He is arguably the most famous non-driver in quarter-mile racing history. Yet there’s irony in that descriptor, for he learned his early engine-building chops tuning powerful Ford Flatheads for speed

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Stu Hilborn – Incredible Injector Man

April 24, 2019

Fuel injection isn’t new. Inventors of the internal combustion engine began toying with the concept in the late 1890s, and by the 1920s fuel injection had become common in diesel truck engines. During WW1 and WWII, aircraft engines employed mechanical fuel injection, as it was

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Tom Medley: Stroker’d but Never Bored

February 25, 2019

(Editor’s Note: This profile was assigned to a special guest columnist, the esteemed Stroker McGurk himself.)  Wow, Tom Medley. Where to start? I knew the guy from the very beginning. We go way back – back to 1948 when Tom Medley joined Hot Rod magazine. You could

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Gene Winfield – Idol Genius of the Silver Screen

February 11, 2019

In Southern California, rods and customs enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the film industry. Movie directors are drawn to automobiles as cinematic and graphic devices. At the same time, a host of SoCal customizers have thrived crafting unique vehicles for the silver screen. One such

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Ken “Posies” Fenical – Making a Statement

January 22, 2019

When one thinks of Hershey, Pennsylvania, ground-breaking rods and customs are probably not the first things that come to mind. Chocolate, of course, is the immediate connection, and the biggest automotive car swap meet on the planet comes next. But for in-the-know hot rodders, the

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Dean Moon, The Man Behind MoonEyes

May 31, 2017

Dean Moon, founder of Mooneyes, accomplishments are like a bright yellow thread that weaves through the tapestry of hot rod history, from the pre-WW2 era through the 1970s. What teen motorhead in the Sixties didn’t have a Moon Eyes sticker on his high school Pee-Chee

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Rodfather Redux – A Sit Down With Andy Brizio

May 24, 2017

Sure, Southern California gets all the ink, but Northern California has written a few chapters of hot rod history as well. Just ask acknowledged hot rod legend Andy Brizio — aka the Rodfather — one of the most influential Nor-Cal rodders of all time. Born in

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Mickey Thompson, Hot Rodding’s Do-It-All Legend

May 10, 2017

If hot rodding and racing could claim a true Renaissance man, Mickey Thompson would have been it. From racer to marketeer, innovator to promoter, Thompson’s influence touched nearly every corner of the motorsports realm. By the time of his tragic death in 1988, his curriculum

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