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AHR #7 IS HERE!

Wednesday, September, 2017

Issue #7 of Australian Hot Rodder has arrived from the printer so we thought it was time to open the pages and let you sample the great features we’ve assembled for you.

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Featured on the cover of AHR #7 is Jeff Cooper’s stunningly detailed old-style Model A Tudor, a car that helped kick-start the popularity of nostalgia hot rods.

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Talented young hot rod builder, Steven Alldrick, allowed us into his Deluxe Rod Shop to follow the build of David Murphy’s beautiful channelled Deuce roadster.

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Few racers were more popular in the 1960s than Ken Spence, the young farmer from country Victoria who delighted in putting on a tyre-smoking show in his Cobra Zephyr.

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When Phil Taylor decided he wanted a hot rod he turned to his mates at Rotunda Revival who built him a very sharp ’60s-styled ’35 coupe.

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Going 200 mph was walk in the park for Peter Warren and his home-built belly tanker.

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A desire to be different and a love of MOPARS was Stewart Campbell’s motivation for building his ’29 Dodge roadster.

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Graham Withers changed the face of Australian Top Fuel racing in the 1960s, but it wasn’t all plain sailing.

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Long time Sydney hot rodder, Ray Ellis, wanted a family- friendly hot rod when he built his True Blue Deuce Tudor.

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He co-founded the Romans Hot Rod Association in 1960, but supplying hot rodders with their parts was his true calling.

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Murray Richards not only built one of the sweetest early hot rods from the 1950s, he also helped his mates build their cars as well.

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Russ Odlum’s cute Model A roadster is still celebrated as one of South Australia’s classic early hot rods.

To order your copy, click here, or phone 0409 705 062 now.

AHR CHRISTMAS GIFT PACK SPECIALS

Wednesday, November, 2016

AHR Christmas Special Gift Packs

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for that special hot rodder in your life?

Australian Hot Rodder’s special gift packs could be just what you’re looking for.

There are three packs to choose from, the Starter Pack, the Builder Pack, and the Big Daddy Pack.

The AHR Starter pack gets you copies of AHR issues #1, #2 and #3, the AHR Builder pack gets you copies of AHR issues #4, #5 and #6, and the Big Daddy pack gets you copies of all six issues of AHR published to date.

Price of these special offers is just $60 for the Starter and Builder packs, and only $120 for the Big Daddy pack.

Best of all we send them to you post-free.

Order now to ensure you receive yours in time for Christmas.

AHR #5 OFFICIAL LAUNCH

Sunday, November, 2015

It’s become tradition that each new issue of Australian Hot Rodder is launched with an official function, and #5 is no different.

This year’s event will be held at The Rubber Connection in South Dandenong and the indications are that it will be special.

Joe Pirotta has agreed to bring The Crimson Pirate along. It will be the first time Joe has showed his iconic hot rod in public since the launch of AHR #1 at his factory.

The Crimson Pirate was featured on the cover of AHR #1. It was also on the cover of the first issue of Eddie Ford’s Custom Rodder magazine way back in 1967.

Along with The Crimson Pirate there will be another Pirotta classic, this one the wildly customised Customline of Charlie Pirotta that he dubbed Dazzle.

John Gladwell now owns Dazzle, and he has agreed to give it a rare outing by bringing it along on the day of the launch. Dazzle is one of the cars featured in AHR #5.

Another feature car from AHR #5 to be at the launch is the beautiful Apple Green highboy Deuce Tudor of Steven Alldrick.

The launch starts at 10.00 and will wrap up at 2.00 pm at The Rubber Connection, Factory 6/355-365, South Gippsland Hwy, Dandenong South, VIC.

The Bay Rodders will be running a sausage sizzle on the day, and drinks will be available.

Copies of AHR #5 will be available to purchase at the launch, along with copies of earlier issues in case you missed out.

AUSTRALIAN HOT RODDER #5 – OUT NOW!

Monday, September, 2015

Australian Hot Rodder #5 has landed and is now available for sale. On the cover we feature Mark Koster’s stunning bare metal ’34 Plymouth coupe.

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Mark Koster had ideas of painting his rare Hemi-powered ’34 Plymouth coupe in gold metalflake, but it looked so good in bare metal that he decided to leave it that way. The eye-popping result is there for all to see in our fabulous photos.

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No one has done more in hot rodding than Eddie Ford. After discovering hot rodding in the 1950s Eddie built his first hot rod, a ’34 Ford coupe, then travelled to the other side of the world to hot rodding’s heartland in the 1960s where he met many of the legendary figures of American hot rodding.

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Mike Davidson was a teenager when he was attracted to salt lake racing and the idea of being the fastest in the world. His quest is to be the fastest ever flathead racer with his twin-flathead V8-powered streamliner that is being dialled in to go better than 300 mph.

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Kathleen Alldrick dreamt of driving a ’32 Ford coupe, but husband Steven reckoned a Tudor would be more practical for a young married couple with plans for a family. Steven built the sweet Tudor the way he believed Henry Ford would have done it.

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Charlie Pirotta spent 30 years transforming his ’56 Customline into a dazzling piece of rolling artwork. Night after night he would work away in his shed crafting the hundreds of pieces of polished, chromed and bejewelled adornments that make his car such a unique custom.

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Watching American Graffiti with his daughter Jane inspired Peter Leech to build a car in the image of John Milner’s classic movie car, but do it better.

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Peter Eames has never bothered about the badge on the cars he’s chosen to turn into hot rods. We track the build and life of the ‘Green Hornet’, one of our most enduring hot rods, the ’34 Chev bucket Eames built in the 1960s.

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More than 50 years ago South Australian Bill Wickes took a solid old Model A roadster and turned it into a hot rod. It’s just as appealing today as it was in the 1960s.

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In the 1970s Neville Anderson endured dirt, dust, breakdowns and crashes in his ’34 Ford coupe just to get to the Narrandera Nationals from his Perth home. Despite the trials and tribulations of a long life on the road Neville’s coupe is still going strong.

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There was no drag strip in South Australia in 1962 when Alf Mullins and Ian Bell built their blown Chrysler rail and lifted drag racing to a new level of performance. The arrival of the Mullins and Bell rail inspired drag racing legend Eddie Thomas to greater heights of performance.

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The first national drag racing titles were held at Fishermens Bend in Melbourne 50 years ago and a young Melbournian driving a six-cylinder Holden-powered rail beat all comers to emerge the winner.

Order your copy now by heading to www.australianhotrodder.com.au, or give us a call at 0409 705 062

Australian Hot Rodder #5 - ADVANCED COPIES HERE!

Thursday, August, 2015

Just in – we received the advanced copies of Australian Hot Rodder #5 last week for approval, and it looks great.

The printer has done a great job and we gave him our tick of approval to go ahead and ship the bulk quantity of magazines.

The cover with Mark Koster’s bare metal ’34 Plymouth coupe dramatically shot at night in a back alley in inner Melbourne came up a treat.

Koster’s beautiful hot rod is just one of the fabulous cars featured in Issue #5 of Australian Hot Rodder.

As well as the Plymouth we feature Flat Attack, Mike Davidson’s twin-flathead powered salt lake streamliner. The South Australian is aiming to reset the existing benchmark for flathead-powered cars by going in excess of 305 mph in this beautifully built racer.

We also document the life and times of Eddie Ford, arguably the Australia’s most influential hot rodder. In the first part of our story on Eddie we look at his early hot rods, the channelled ’34 coupe he built in the early 1960s, and the ’32 three-window coupe he built later in the ’70s.

If that’s not enough there are also features on Neville Anderson’s ’34 coupe, Bill Wickes’ Model A roadster, Peter Eames shorty ’34 Chev bucket, Charlie Pirotta’s dazzling ’56 Customline, Peter Leech’s ’32 coupe, the ’32 Tudor of Steven and Kathleen Alldrick, the Mullins & Bell blown Chrysler rail, and Jack “Fizzball” Collins, the winner of the first national drag racing title.

Now that the shipping has been approved we expect to have copies available for sale within the next few weeks.

As soon as they arrive we’ll be busy sending them out to everyone who has pre-ordered the magazine.

To order your copy, go to www.australianhotrodder.com.au, or phone 0409 705 062

Australian Hot Rodder #5 SNEAK PEEK

Friday, July, 2015

Australian Hot Rodder # 5 is nearing completion and will soon be sent to the printers. We’re currently reviewing the colour proofs before giving the printer the go-ahead to print, but before we do we thought we’d let you see what you’re in store for when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

The cover features Mark Koster’s stunning bare metal ’34 Plymouth. The Melbourne hot rodder wanted something different and we can only say that he more than achieved his goal with his beautiful old-style Hemi-powered Mopar coupe.

Featured inside is the first instalment of our story on pioneering hot rodder and publisher, Eddie Ford. We chronicle Eddie’s start in hot rodding way back in the 1950s, and journey through the adventure of building two of his best known and loved hot rods, his channelled ’34 coupe and the ’32 coupe he swapped for a ’33 tourer with American hot rodder, Fred Steele.

Peter Leech built his first hot rod, a channelled ’32 roadster, in the 1960s. He followed that up with this fabulous tribute to the movie, American Graffiti, with this beautiful ’32 coupe.

Dazzle was Charlie Pirotta’s dream machine. He worked on the ’56 Customline for 30 years, all the time adding to it as he created a unique piece of automotive artwork. Since his death the unique car has been to Canada and back again, and is now owned by John Gladwell, who remembers seeing the car in the 1960s.

Veteran Perth hot rodder Neville Anderson loves ’34 Fords, he’s owned dozens of them, and still has a few in his shed, but his favourite is the Dodge-powered five-window coupe he built in the 1960s and took to the first Nationals in Narrandera.

Peter Eames was never bound by the rule that says a hot rod has to be a Ford. His first hot rod, a bucket he built from a ’34 Chev tourer, is one of the great survivors having survived a fire as well as the ravages of time.

We haven’t forgotten drag racing’s place in hot rodding and look back at two of the great early drag racers.

It’s 50 years since the first National drag racing championship was run at Riverside in Melbourne and we caught up with Jack “Fizzball” Collins who told us how he managed to win the title at the wheel of a Holden six-cylinder powered rail.

Ian Bell and his mate, Alf Mullins, set the drag racing world alight in the early 1960s with their homebuilt Chrysler-powered rail.

Once the colour proofs are approved the printing can proceed and AHR #5 should soon be available.

To order your copy, click here, or phone 0409 705 062 now.

AHR #4 – THE ESSENCE OF AUSTRALIAN HOT RODDING

Wednesday, June, 2014

Issue #4 of Australian Hot Rodder captures the essence of Australian Hot Rodding through in-depth features and great photography of some of the best hot rods ever built in Australia and the people behind them.

DEUCE DAZE

Peter Leech was smitten by what he saw in the American hot rodding magazines in the early 1960s when he was in short pants and still going to school. He built his beloved channelled ’32 Ford roadster while still a teenager, then rebuilt it, again, and again, and again. Read about this remarkable hot rodder and his ever changing roadster.

CLASS A TUB

Bob Bowman has been building hot rods for almost 50 years and he remains one of the most innovative hot rodders in the country. His latest hot rod a remarkable handcrafted Model A tub is a classic example of his creativity.

COOL MINT COUPE

Before the Model A tub Bowman was best known for the Peppermint Pirate, the Model A Ford coupe he first built in the early 1970s. It grew out of a bunch of leftover bits to become one of our most memorable hot rods.

TRUE TO TRADITION

Warren Wilkie wowed everyone with his super sanitary Model A roadster at the first ASRF Nationals at Narrandera in 1973. Today, he builds superb traditional hot rods at his rod shop in Toowoomba. We feature his stunning ’36 Ford three-window coupe.

ROADS TO GLORY

Pukka road racers were shocked to the core when a couple of unknowns in a humble ’34 Ford roadster blew them away to win the 1934 Victorian Centenary Grand Prix at Phillip Island in 1934.

TOURING CLASS

Tasmanian Don Langdon originally rebuilt his ’35 Ford Phaeton from a rusty relic into a much-admired beauty latest rebuild on his classic.

FROM FLAT OUT TO FULL NOISE

The cackle scene is big news in America where old rails are being dusted off and demonstrated with their old school fire and fury in front of appreciative audiences all over the country. Ross Preen is Australia’s King of Cackle with his ex-John Maher racer.

HOT ROD HEAVEN

Old time hot rodders say the best Nationals were the first at Narrandera in 1973. We take a nostalgic look back a time when hot rod get-togethers were all about having fun.

THE LUCK OF THE DRAW

Malcolm Mountjoy couldn’t believe his ears when he was announced as the winner of the first ASRF Nationals raffle car at the Narrandera nationals in 1977. He still has the car today, and it’s as sharp as ever.

TWO HOT TEES

Leon Birss a thing for Henry’s Model T. He turned one into a trophy-winning beauty in the early 1960s, and after a spell away from the hobby has built another.

THE PATHFINDER

New South Welshman Brian Keegan was drag racing before we had any drag strips to race on. He is truly one of our drag racing pioneers.

Click here to order AHR #4

Post-Free Deal

Wednesday, March, 2014

BUY TWO OR MORE ISSUES OF
AHR AND SAVE HEAPS!

In a great new deal we’re offering our loyal readers the chance to buy their favourite magazine and save heaps.

When you buy two or more issues of Australian Hot Rodder we’ll now send them to you post-free. That’s right, there are no postage and handling charges when you order two or more magazines.

That’s a massive saving of $12 on two issues, and it’s even more if you buy more than two.

To take advantage of our great offer go to www.australianhotrodder.com.au or phone 0409 705 062.

AHR #4 NEARING COMPLETION

Work on AHR #4 is nearly completed and we hope to send it to the printer in the coming weeks.

In the course of the last few months we have travelled far and wide and talking to some of Australia’s top hot rodders for the stories featured in AHR #4.

We began in New South Wales where were fortunate enough to spend a few days with Bob Bowman, the builder of the legendary Peppermint Pirate Model A coupe back in the 1970s.

Bob still owns the Pirate and we couldn’t resist shooting it for a feature in our latest issue, and while we were there we just had to shoot his latest project, the Deluxe A tourer, which graces the cover of AHR #4.

The hand-built Deluxe tourer is a masterpiece of hot rodding ingenuity and Bob gave us the inside story on how it came to be and the enormous challenge in building it.

Anyone who was at the first ASRF Nationals in Narrandera in 1973 would remember Warren Wilkie’s sharp Model A roadster, the one that won the prestigious People’s Choice award.

We also travelled to Toowoomba in Queensland to check out Warren’s latest creation, a brilliant red ’36 Ford three-window coupe.

The coupe is a stunning example of the traditional hot rods Wilkie builds at his Toowoomba rod shop and he tells us how it happened.

We not only travelled north, we also went south, to Hobart in Tasmania where we caught up with Don Langdon and his reborn ’35 Ford tourer.

Langdon built the tourer back in the 1970s when it won the Top Tourer trophy at the ’77 Nationals, but he has since given the beautiful red rod a modern makeover that makes it even more stunning.

The ASRF Nationals are big business today, but in 1973 when they were first staged the focus was more on fun than finances. We sat down with the people involved in organising the first Nationals, and even revisited Narrandera to see what those early Nats were all about.

Malcolm Mountjoy thought he was the luckiest guy alive when his name was pulled out the hat to win the ’23 T-bucket on offer as the first ever raffle car at the 1977 Nationals.

The Bendigo hot rodder still owns the car and it is as sharp today as it was the day he won it.

As well as those great features we also have stories on Peter Leech’s love affair with the Deuce, Leon Birss’s Model T fascination, Ross Preen’s cackle car, and pioneering drag racer, Brian Keegan.

To ensure you get your copy of AHR #4:

Click here to order AHR #4

AHR#3 TO LAUNCH AT THE RUBBER CONNECTION

Sunday, September, 2013

AHR#3 TO LAUNCH AT THE RUBBER CONNECTION

Australian Hot Rodder has joined forces with The Rubber Connection for the official release of Issue Number Three.

AHR#3 will be launched at The Rubber Connection’s Dandenong shop on October 5 and all hot rodders are invited to come along and bring their hot rods for what promises to be a great day. Many of the hot rods featured in Issue Number Three will be there, including the ex-Graeme Blaby ’33 Ford coupe now owned by Mick Jubber, along with others that were featured in Issues Number One and Two. It will be a great opportunity to get your copy of AHR#3 and have it autographed.

The launch will run from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm at the Rubber Connection, which is located at Factory 6/355 South Gippsland Highway, Dandenong South.

For more information phone Jeff Cooper on 03 9799 1012 or Graham Smith on 0409 705 062.

AHR #3 – SPANNING THE AGES

Thursday, August, 2013

Issue #3 of Australian Hot Rodder brings Australian hot rodding alive with great in-depth stories and fabulous photography of some of Australia’s best hot rods, drag racers and events.

RACE ‘N’ ROAD STAR 

In 1965 there was no faster hot rod in the country than Tony Mullen’s classic Ford Y-block powered ’32 Ford roadster. Mullen not only ruled the road in his little red car, but he was also king of the strip, winning the 1965 Australian drag racing title for road-going hot rods.

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ 

Graeme Blaby stunned the local hot rodding scene when he pulled up at the 1979 Street Rod Nationals in his traditional ’34 Ford coupe. Blaby was determined to live hot rodding the Californian way and the ’34 coupe was his way of doing it. Mick Jubber now owns the coupe and is committed to keeping Blaby’s dream alive.

A BEATER LIFE 

When Graeme Blaby’s California dream faded he turned the clock back to an earlier, simpler time when cashstrapped young guys spent their weekends building hot rods and drove them to work come Monday morning. Blaby’s back-to-basics ’34 Tudor is his rebel yell against the billet movement. 

PASS MASTER

John English was a towering figure on the drag racing scene in the 1960s. The Victorian engineer/driver started racing a hot Mercury sedan at Pakenham in the late 1950s before going on to dominate the national drag racing scene for more than decade at the wheel of his ’32 Ford altered roadster.

LITTLE SPORT – THEN AND NOW

Melbourne hot rodder Ern Harewood built one of the prettiest hot rods of the 1960s when he took a wrecked ’32 Ford Sport Coupe and turned it into a trophy-winning beauty he called Little Sport. The channelled Sport Coupe has been owned since the early 1970s by Maury Stevens who has plans to return it to the road.

SURFIN’ T 

Following the popularity of the Norm Grabowski-built Tbucket in the hit TV show 77 Sunset Strip T-buckets were all the rage in the 1960s and the Surf Buggie built by the Mitchel brothers in Melbourne was one of the best. We tracked the iconic hot rod down and inspired its new owner to get it back on the road after years gathering dust in his Melbourne garage.

DRAG FEAST

Drag racing in Australia roared to a whole new level of professionalism following the tour by six American drag racers in 1966, which gave local racers a glimpse of what the sport could become here.

ANDY’S FORMULA A

Mainlanders didn’t know what to make of Andy Morris’s wild Model A tourer when the lanky Tasmanian crossed Bass Strait for the first time, but they soon discovered there was much more to Morris and his Model A than quirky looks.

MIGHTY MEGATON

Geoff Kracht took a battered ’40 Ford Sloper and turned it into a sparkling show beauty in the 1960s, it was then left to gather dust until his son David gave it a whole new life as the thoroughly modern day cruiser we found when we went to visit him at his Blue Mountains home. 

SHOW TIME

Shows have long been a favourite way for hot rodders to show off the fruits of their labour in public. We trace the early history of hot rod shows in this country.

THOMAS’S FLYER

With no other hot rods for reference or hot rodders to talk to Peter Thomas had little to guide him when he built his channelled ’32 Ford roadster in the mid-1950s. Instead he turned to his road racing mates and the specials they were building for guidance.

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