Cover of Hot Rod magazine, featuring Don Garlits' dragster

Hot Rod magazine is the oldest magazines devoted to the hobby of hot rodding, modifying automobiles for performance and appearance, having been published since 1948. Robert E. Petersen founded the magazine and his Petersen Publishing Company was the original publisher. The magazine is currently published by Source Interlink. Hot Rod Magazine has licensed affiliation with UTI (Universal Technical Institute). The first editor of Hot Rod Magazine was Wally Parks who created the National Hot Rod Association. Cover of Hot Rod magazine, featuring Don Garlits front engine dragster, Wynns Jammer. ... Cover of Hot Rod magazine, featuring Don Garlits front engine dragster, Wynns Jammer. ... Cover of Hot Rod magazine, featuring Don Garlits front engine dragster, Wynns Jammer Donald Glenn Garlits (born January 14, 1932, Tampa, Florida) is considered the father of drag racing. ... Drag racing is a form of auto racing in which cars attempt to complete a fairly short, straight and level course in the shortest amount of time. ... T-Bucket hot rod Hot rods are older, often historical, cars. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert E. Pete Petersen (1926-March 23, 2007) was an American publisher and founder of the Petersen Automotive Museum in 1994. ... Wallace Gordon (Wally) Parks (January 23, 1913 - September 28, 2007) was an automobile writer and hobbyist, and editor of the magazine Hot Rod, in the late 1940s and 1950s. ... The National Hot Rod Association, known as the NHRA, was founded by Wally Parks in 1951 in the State of California to provide a governing body to organize and promote the sport of drag racing. ...

The Hot Rod Power Tour is an organized tour where people in the car hobby drive a pre-planned route throughout the country. It began in 1995 when Hot Rod Magazine staff members decided to take some of their project cars on a cross-country drive from Los Angeles, CA to Norwalk, OH. Thousands of people participated along the way but only seven participants (other than staff members) made the entire jouney and were inducted into the original "Long Hauler Gang". Since its inception, this event has continued to gain in popularity and is now one of the most anticipated automotive events each year. It is typically six to eight days in length and held in late May or early June. In recent years, the tour has evolved to become what is essentially a continuous trek around the United States in that it begins in or near the location that it ended in the previous year. Each stop is combined with events or activities that vary as much as the participants themselves.

Video games

ValuSoft have published Hot Rod: American Street Drag and Hot Rod: Garage to Glory, which are drag racing video games trying to win the virtual cover of Hot Rod Magazine. THQ Inc. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

External links

• Official site