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Hot Rod Jan 1960
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Hot Rod January 1960

Features
Road Test! Super 88 Oldsmobile
Bolt-In! Floor Shift Conversions
Plain Talk On Fancy Cams
Drag Racing's New Rules For '60

 


Hot Rod Feb 1960
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Hot Rod February 1960

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Stick-Shift Hydra-Matic
Newest: Accessory Drives, Front Cover Plates
Everybody's Automotive Magazine

 


Hot Rod Mar 1960
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Hot Rod March 1960

Features
The Hotter New Plymouth
Karts And Compacts In Competition
400 Horsepower Stude Lark
Hot Rodding The Ford Falcon

 


Hot Rod Apr 1960
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Hot Rod April 1960

Features
Road Test! Chrysler 300-F
1960 Land Speed Challenge
6900 Horsepower Jet Rod

 


Hot Rod May 1960
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Hot Rod May 1960

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Road Test! Pontiac Tempest 425-A
Engine Feature-Make A 400-Incher Of Your 283 Chevy
High Horsepower Falcons

 


Hot Rod Jun 1960
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Hot Rod June 1960

Features
Comet Vs. Rambler
Hot Chevy For 'Indy'
Latest-VW Hop-Up Kit

 


Hot Rod Jul 1960
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Hot Rod July 1960

Features
Supercharging The Compacts
How To Do It-Install A V8 In Your Falcon
"America's Most Beautiful Roadster"..60 Oakland Roadster Show

 


Hot Rod Aug 1960
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Hot Rod August 1960

Features
Stroker Kit For Corvair
Chev V8 In A Comet
Special! Big Engine Section

 


Hot Rod Sep 1960
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Hot Rod September 1960

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Pikes Peak Race Pictorial
How-To-Do-It Kart Engine Hop-Up
Top Contenders For '60 Nationals

 


Hot Rod Oct 1960
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Hot Rod October 1960

Features
A Hot V8 For Valiant
Modifying The GMC Blower For Racing
Everybody's Automotive Magazine

 


Hot Rod Nov 1960
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Hot Rod November 1960

Features
Pontiac's Hot Compact 4
Bonneville: America's Fastest Rods
Impala Customs

 


Hot Rod Dec 1960
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Hot Rod December 1960

Features
'61 Ford/375 HP Hot V8
Complete Coverage: National Drags
Trouble Shooting Ignition Systems

 

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Robert E. Petersen launched Hot Rod magazine in 1948 to coincide with the first Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) Exposition in Los Angeles. This magazine closed a needed gap in hot rod coverage after the demise of Throttle magazine at the start of World War II. It gained success quickly, and many imitators followed. Petersen's success allowed him to launch Motor Trend and many other titles.

The first magazines were 9" by 12" and were bigger than the popular pocket- or digest-sized magazines that came later. The size was reduced to 8-1/2" by 11" with the October, 1949 issue. This magazine marks the beginning of a golden age in automotive publications, and it set the style for much more to come.

Hot Rod has always been a generalist rodding magazine, successfully covering all aspects in the world of wheels from hot rods, customs, muscle cars, drag racing, dune buggies, vans, etc. Like other Petersen titles like Car Craft, in the mid-1960s content began slowly shifting away from pre-1948 vehicles and instead embraced Detroit classics from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. This fact is represented by the re-grouping of the title into the performance & muscle genre for all issues from 1965 forward.

Rod & Custom was a sister magazine in the Petersen empire. When it ended for a second time in May 1974, it was folded into Hot Rod magazine.

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