What was your most influential or favorite mag article?

[Huskinhano]

For me the one that keeps popping to the top is the Pat Ganahl series on the Hirohata Mercury. I'm not a customs fan per say but what did it for me was this. The owner Jim Mc Neil was not a customs fan either. He had bought the Merc from a used car dealer when he was in HS. It was beat when he bought it. Jim held on to it for all these years. I really digged the fact that Jim did most of the restoration himself, in his home garage. His attention to detail and preservation was second to none. He tried to keep as much of the original car and it's parts that he could and repair any crude work that was unsafe. The only work Jim didn't do was the paint only because he was under pressure to enter the Merc in the LA show. The paint was handle by Junior Conway.

Since that time I try to pay more attention to details and try to do as close as I can to professional work as I can. Plus Pat Ganahl is right up there with DF in my book. I could also relate very much to Jim's working conditions. In his back yard garage and not some high end shop.

[1970camaroRS]

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There was a Chevy Hi Performance article about called Project Goodwrench. They took a Goodwrench 350 and very slowly over 7 or 8 articles they added an intake, then a camshaft, then a carb and headers, then a set of Vortec heads and a new cam to go with it. I liked the idea of building something as cheap as you could that I copied it for the most part.

[Loren]

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Popular HotRodding in '74 did a three-part on a SS/HA (I think) '67 Chevy II, 327 and tubbed. I loved it and bought a '67 Nova for my first car two years later...but wasn't up to the mods at sixteen, two bucks an hour. A couple years later they did a BB Vega which was my next dream car I never built.

That Detroit streetracer '71 Challenger has gotten a lot of fresh attention lately. It was only a one-page article in '77 but it's part of the reason I have the Chall now. A good thing the pic was not in color, I might have puked and never looked at a Challenger again... what, pink w/ a white vinyl top? :D

Gray Baskerville did a little piece on a SB Chevy-powered Porsche 914, that hung on me for quite a while. A bud built one w/ a 231 but, ho-hum. Keep in mind these were pre-turbo days.

Why are these all from the '70s? I guess it has to do with age, one is more easily influenced early on.

[Scott Liggett]

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Car Craft's Project Heavy Metal for obvious reasons.

[BangShift McT]

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Mopar Muscle's Stealth Bomber Diplomat for a buildup, and the first editorial after Heavy Metal got jacked...the unabashed anger just flowed out of that page...

[studemax]

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I don't remember specific articles, but I always looked for anything by Gray Baskerville in Hot Rod magazine.
I always liked Cole Coonce's articles in the old Super Stock & Drag Illustrated, too.

[HEMI]

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The BEAN BANDITS article in an early 1950's HRM.I was just learning to read
and the B.B. cars really stood out from the rest.

[Barry Donovan]

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There was a Chevy Hi Performance article about called Project Goodwrench. They took a Goodwrench 350 and very slowly over 7 or 8 articles they added an intake, then a camshaft, then a carb and headers, then a set of Vortec heads and a new cam to go with it. I liked the idea of building something as cheap as you could that I copied it for the most part.

that triggers a memory.. is it from the 90s?
I do recall reading this..

I have no favorite magazine article. I still attribute my location to just doing away with most of the well.. Pansy.
I would make my own damn engine from the ground up if I could. :

[IRONHEAD]

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build a index9.90 car in your garage,
mid to late 80's and I think it was prh.
then later it was frankenrat, jeff smith and co. take a g.m. 454ho(like mine) and go from the 425hp/500ftlb to 575hp and just shy of 600ftlb in steps over 3 or 4 months..
but after reading car mags since I was 5 (1975)
the one that I'll never forget was started with D/F standing on a pyle of engines in a junkyard..
and they listed off different ways to get more cubes, use'n odd make parts..
buick rods in mopar/etc

[BBR]

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Rick "Super Hunky" Sieman's monthly "From the Saddle" editorial in DIRT BIKE magazine in the 80/90's. Loved every word.

[squirrel]

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Project First Car in Hot Rod, 1974. Gave me enough confidence to take apart a 283 when I was 14, and overhaul it, and get it running again.

And of course Basketcase's story about Kollofski's 55 in Dec 77

[1badmonkey]

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PROJECT HEAVY METAL was one, I also really liked the Chevette, Bad seed.

[cantvalve16]

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August 1992. Hot Rod did an article about the blueprints for a 14,13,12,11 second car. That one got me started on the modification specifics. I was 10.

There was a article in a muscle car mag from around that time about a mag editor who did street tests of muscle cars when they were brand new. He got ahold of a brand new Boss 351 and went street racing. That got me started on the musclecar scene.

Gray Baskerville (I think) did an article on hot rod lingo in the early '90's that really helped with the jargon of the hobby.

[TC]

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This was a great article.

[88 Dippy]

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one is the stealth bomb build up like brian mentioned

the other 350's featuring the oldsmobile that was the one that made me realy get into the hot rodding becuase i had a olds 350 in my 82 GP