Archive for Magazines
Vintage Scan #2 – How to Hop Up Your Engine Sept 1962
Here’s a scan of the entire issue number 15, September 1962 magazine How to Hop Up Your Engine. (16 MB download) Long name for a magazine and different than the simpler titled and more popular Hop Up. As an Ohio-based magazine, there’s a letter in this issue complaining about the lack of West coast cars. There was quite a rivalry between West coast and East coast in hot rods and drag racing. Either way, I love this style hot rod, always have. There’s been a huge resurgence in this style, and I wonder if it was started by folks like me in the 1980s finding the old man’s magazines and falling in love with that look. See below for a few highlights and comments.
The first thing I noticed as I was scanning, is how few ads there are. This J.C. Whitney ad from the inside front cover is super cool. Check out the stuff, tiki voodoo head shift knobs, Krazy decals, a cattle caller horn (which I have in my car), a Hollywood wolf whistle, a Hula-hula girl, and more!
Here’s an editorial talking about these new safety devices called seat belts.
That last photo is the cover car. None of the pages are in color. Today I looked at a few recent issues of Rod & Custom and Hot Rod and ALL the pages are in color. Even we retronuts are aware that some things improve.
Autorama and Oakland Roadster Show photos. Autorama is still around, but Oakland, or what should be called the Grand National Roadster Show, is now in LA.
These Motor’s Auto Repair Manuals are indeed great. I’ve got one from 1953 and one from 1966. If you want to know how to work on an old car, forget any other type of manual, get a Motor’s.
Western Review 1949
Western Review, Winter 1949. Volume 13, number 2. Formerly Rocky Mountain Review. If anyone wants this, I’ll just send it to you. email me at mrpontiac at yahoo dot com.
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Cheryl Ladd Magazine
Cheryl Ladd,Volume 1, Number 3. November 1978. I don’t have the cover, which I probably had on my wall. Someday soon I’m going to scan this whole thing, not so much for the articles as the advertisements. They are right out of 1978, and anyone who was around then should love them. The Bay City Rollers posters is one example.
I’m not sure what publisher to put here. Dell distributing, Celebrity Parade, or Lorelie Publishing Co. Inc. It’s hard to find info on this magazine, cause when you search for “Cheryl Ladd magazine” you get a ton of magazines that had Cheryl Ladd in them. Anyone have any info they can share?
Bay City Rollers Gigantic Living Color Posters! Order them Here!
An ad out of a Cheryl Ladd magazine.
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The Entire Creem 15th Anniversary Issue December 1984
I’m very sorry, but I’ve been asked very nicely to remove this post by Jason Turner at Creem Magazine. They are trying to re-launch. The website is http://www.creemmagazine.com
Stevie Ray Vaughan in Guitar World Sept 1988
Guitar World, September 1988. Stevie Ray Vaughan on the cover. Plus, a Who’s Who of the Blues. I was looking for some examples of sexist advertising, but the Marshall amplifiers ad with Yngwie J. Malmsteen is as close as there was in this magazine. I was really surprised at that. Lots of ads had that ’80s heavy metal hair band stuff though, so I’ll probably scan some of them soon. And one ad for some mixing equipment had a floppy disk, which surprised me.
