Model Car Builders are back in the full size Hot Rod mags...

[tim boyd]

As many of you know, model cars and their builders were covered extensively in Street Rodder magazine from 1978 through the very early 2000's.  Not so much (as a matter of fact, almost never) since. 

This month seems to have broken the chain....several of you have commented on the model car covered in the new issue of Rodder's Journal (my sub copy has yet to arrive but I look forward to seeing it).  I recall hearing that it features a fine custom model by Steve Boutte.      

Then, yesterday, I picked up the latest issues of Rodding USA magazine.  (Rodding USA is published by Paul Martinez, who you may remember as an associated editor at Street Rodder in the early 1980's, and then later on, as the photographer/publisher of an extensive series of yearly pin up and swimsuit calendars.  In 2013 he started Rodding USA magazine, an all-color hot rodding mag, available by subscription only - other than a few specialty book shops - and has since published nearly 50 issues.  It is well worth checking out if you like Hot Rods and prefer a more hobby focused (vs. the advertising-focused) magazine that covers the hobby very well). 

Anyway, in the new Issue #48 I first saw a name we all know here very well -  in an article of a super-traditional '32 Highboy, in the tech chart is says "1939 top loader 78 case, rebuilt by Dennis Lacy at Early V8 Garage."  So THAT's why Dennis' hot rod models are so lifelike and realistic! 

Then, checking out a 4-page Garage Scene fixture on a '36 Ford coupe, I saw the builder was Doug Klann, owner of Slim's body works near Saginaw, Michigan.  I immediately thought of Fred Farrand, another terrific modeler who posts his model builds in this forum from time to time.  Fred worked closely with Doug on a 1/1 scale '32 highboy a few  years ago, which came out great.  Then...wait....Fred has been having a '35/'36 three window coupe built by Doug over the last 3 years or so....could this be it?  (I hadn't seen updated pix from Fred since early this year).   Turns out, not only was it Fred's, but turns out Fred wrote and photographed the entire article.  Yeah! 

Big congrats to Steve, Dennis, and Fred!   TIM    

[Snake45]

Sadly, none of those magazines is available in my area. 

[slusher]

On 11/1/2020 at 7:57 AM, Snake45 said:

Sadly, none of those magazines is available in my area. 

What state are you in? Didn’t recognize your state bro...

[BlackSheep214]

I find Hot Rod mag in Walmart and some grocery stores magazine aisle. If I'm lucky.. Barnes and Nobles.