I cancelled my subscription to Hot Rod over a year ago. I got real tired of
trying to find the articles between all the advertising, it just kept
getting worse. I had been reading that book since the fifties and it was a
part of my life until they commercilized and ruined it.
Dave Haller #93
----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Barrett <speedtimer@earthlink.net>
To: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@idt.net>
Cc: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Hot Rod dis...
> Just for information Peterson does not run the museum anymore the city of
Los
> Angeles and the other old goats that do not want to spend or budget for
the future
> of the museum have just about ruined it. Most of the real hot rods are at
the NHRA
> museum. At least Wally Parks had a dream come true with this display of
the roots
> of hot rodding. There is a great display of land speed cars and donations
by many of
> their personal treasures for all to see.
> As far as the HR Mag, it has been a street rod thing for years with
little on the
> land speed racing scene. Thats my 2 cents.
>
> Glen Barrett
> Chief Timer SCTA / BNI
>
> Ed Van Scoy wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I saw it also.
> > The problem with the staff of Hot Rod & other car rags out there today
is that
> > the 25 year-old editors have no respect for the roots of the sport and
couldn't
> > care less about "real" hot rods- now or then. This is a money game with
them.
> > The "build-ups" they feature rely on donated parts and then the "donors"
are
> > rewarded with the privilidge of advertising in their mag. It does work,
as a
> > friend of mine with a fuel injection shop gets inundated with phone
calls after
> > an issue comes out featuring his shop or parts. There's no money at
Bonneville
> > for them and their readership has no interest in reading about "freak"
cars from
> > another era. After all, if the bass in your car's stereo doesn't rattle
windows
> > at stoplights your car is a loser! I'm not sure what turns on todays
"hot
> > rodders" but the kids around here drive lowered imports with coffee-can
exhust
> > tips, dangerously under-sized wheels & tires with intentional excessive
offset &
> > camber, and oh yeah, the stereo. I doubt if many of them even change
their own
> > oil .
> > The paradox with Hot Rod is they still have a dinosaur there (probably
our age)
> > in Gray Baskerville. Gray is a hot rodder & USED to cover Bonneville
annually,
> > but the money today is probably used to cover burn-out contests. With
Peterson
> > Publishing running the premier hot-rodding museum in So. Cal. , you
would expect
> > better treatment of the Geezers that built the cars that made the museum
a
> > success. Yes, Ken Walkey's name is on the wall there, along with all of
the
> > B'ville 200 Club Members. I doubt if any of the drones working for Hot
Rod today
> > will ever find their names there.........
> > Just my $.02 worth.....
> > Ed
> >
> > Wester S Potter wrote:
> >
> > > Llist,
> > > Did anyone else see the put down reply to the letter to the editor on
Hot
> > > Rod written by Ken Walkey. Sort of a "there's no racing but quarter
mile"
> > > attitude. Now I remember why I didn't re-new my subscription.
Obviously
> > > they don't have a clue about who he is or what he has done for salt
flats
> > > racing. After you set a land-speed record over three hundred I think
you
> > > have to get some courtesy for your opinion. For those who don't know
Ken,
> > > he shares the announcing duties on our 1610 radio station on the salt
with
> > > Ron Christensen. Wonder where the Hot Rod Mag. boys would be without
their
> > > spell checkers and editorial assistants who re-write their stories?
Most of
> > > them have never been to the salt and some of the others must have
spent too
> > > much time inhaling nitro fumes at the drags. I was disappointed in
their
> > > attitude to say the least. Oh well, I am very sure they have seen his
work
> > > on the life-like animated characters at Disneyland
> > > Wes
>
>
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