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Hot Rod is the oldest magazine devoted to hot rodding, having been published since January 1948. [2] [3] Robert E. Petersen founded the magazine and his Petersen Publishing Company was the original publisher. The first editor of Hot Rod was Wally Parks, who went on to found the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). [4]
While working to promote the exhibition, Petersen realized that there were no media specific to hot rods or hot-rodding. Seeing an opportunity, Petersen and Robert Lindsay, another member of the promotion team for the exhibition, left Hollywood Publicity Associates that autumn and began development of Hot Rod magazine. The first issue of the ...
Hot Rod magazine's Gray Baskerville called CadZZilla "the most incredible transformation he'd ever witnessed", [1] and in their "History of Hot Rods & Customs" the auto editors of Consumer Guide praised it as "the first really new type of custom since the heyday of the 1950s". [3]
NZ Hot Rod Magazine, first issued in 1967 [2] NZ Performance Car, first published in 1996; NZV8 magazine, launched in 2005; Top Gear Australia, published by the Bauer Media Group with a partnership with the BBC. Last issue October 2015; Wheels, first issued in Australia in 1953
[citation needed] Hot rods were made popular by magazines and movies. Hot Rod (1950), The Fast And The Furious (1954) and Running Wild (1955) and other movies were in theaters. [8] Pete Petersen began publishing Hot Rod Magazine with encouragement and capital investment from Honest Charley, who was also an advertiser in the first issue. [2]
There are magazines that feature traditional hot rods, including Hot Rod, Car Craft, Rod and Custom, and Popular Hot Rodding. There are also television shows such as My Classic Car, Horsepower TV, American Hot Rod, Fast and Loud, and Chop Cut Rebuild. Particularly during the early 1960s, a genre of "hot rod music" rose to mainstream popularity.