Magazin - Hot Rod Deluxe - 2013 - 01

After 46 years, best buddies retrace two teenagers' unauthorized trip to hearthland.

Eric Rickman captures a bathing beauty at Bikini Beach, aka Pomona Drag Strip.

Andy's Picnic roars back to life, Bonneville is bitchin' and a '31 Chevy lights up Escondido's streets.

A Deuce that was raced just one time, then put away - for 58 years!

Historic barn find: the Tom Cobbs roadster/coupe that lost the legendary "First Drag Race."

Other men's junk was combined to create one crafty man's treasure.

Grandma's sport coupe somehow survived a misguided relative and a half-century of neglect.

A traditional Model A, done the traditional way: with donated man hours, not cubic dollars.

How HOT ROD's 1972 staffers injected life into the Glass Slipper - and nostalgia drag racing.

Our cover girl cozies up to some shop signs, pedals, and direct-replacement disc brakes.

Jim Meyer's front subframes take the guesswork out of building gasser-style "axle cars."

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The Undertaker, Carl Casper's car-show killer, came complete with a ghoulish guy and gal.