Some of the purest and most nostalgic hot rod cover art paintings were produced by Speed Mechanics Magazine in the early 1950's. Here's a few highlights that are personal favorites of mine...
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| Speed Mechanics Magazine, Premiere Issue #1, January 1953 |
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| Speed Mechanics Magazine, March, 1954 He's mooning over his "pin-up"; a new Corvette, while he polishes his 1932 Chevrolet. A Chevy man through-and-through! |
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| Speed Mechanics Magazine, August, 1954 The detail is painstaking on the car. Notice the distorted "reflection" in the baby moon hubcaps, and the SHARP brand speed equipment heads.   |
Interestingly, that same striking cover of the first issue of Speed Mechanics was reproduced for another magazine, "How To Soup-Up Your Car!" that was published in the Fall of 1958.
And to continue the theme, the cover of the May, 1959 issue of "How To Soup-Up Your Car!" was filched from the 1955, April edition of "Speed Mechanics"...
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