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When talk turns to "traditional" hot rods, when you look at what they did back then, it's pretty clear they cared squat about tradition.  They just wanted to go fast, and used whatever parts they had to do it.

The Mercury powered Cord is an interesting contrast to the Cord powered rod featured in an earlier issue.  It's too bad they didn't provide more detail on how they made that work.

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On 11/10/2022 at 3:03 AM, Calb56 said:

439602715_Screenshot_20221110_030700_MotorTrend.jpg.dabce4b7569ed528b95563731eca8199.jpgVery cool, for the ads alone, looking at the 1950s magazines... but wow, it's small on my phone. He said with his old eyes.

Charles, here's a great photo of one of these Frenzel superchargers on a Ford engine. I myself have a 3d printed Frenzel on a Lincoln V12 I'm looking forward to dropping into the right build!

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41 minutes ago, ea0863 said:

Charles, here's a great photo of one of these Frenzel superchargers on a Ford engine. I myself have a 3d printed Frenzel on a Lincoln V12 I'm looking forward to dropping into the right build!

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I saw that cover, I almost changed my "avatar " to that.

I loved the ad though, the price...

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41 minutes ago, ea0863 said:

This Henry J caught my attention from HRM August 1951. These had to be kind of the "hot hatch" of their day, along with their British counterparts. A lovely car I would enjoy building.

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Love the Henry J and Allstates! Wish there was a decent model of them...

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Just so we don't think Corvette was the first fiberglass car, comes this Glasspar from HRM April 1953. Some of these aftermarket creations (later to become the kit car industry I suppose), had interesting designs of their own. I wonder if this one ever became a scale model?

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34 minutes ago, keyser said:

Polynesian is a famous custom. Pretty epic. 

See, and I didn't even know that. I was always into exotic cars, and only after starting to build models in my later years have I discovered this whole other world of hot rods! Just a few days ago, I had to look up the difference between chopping, sectioning, and channeling! :) And I still don't know what "slamming" means...

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