How did we do? RSM 2008 Trend Predictions

So last year we wrote down what we thought would be hot and not in 2008.  Our crystal ball isn't perfect of course, so we had to see how the year went before we were proved right or wrong.  Whilst we expected some trends to be on display in 2008 on cars, we were also judging by the rise of interest on forums and blogs in particular areas because building a new car can take more than a year! So here is what we predicted and our thoughts on how it went.  On the up Retro Tourism - The...

06/01/2009

Hot Rod Videos

There was I looking through some photographs of my trip to America last year when I found a few snippets of video. These videos aren't brilliantly filmed on expensive HD cameras and they're not filmed by a trained professional cameraman, they're filmed by me on a tiny hand held digital still camera. We can overlook that though can't we? What you'll see contained within each of them is a brief moment, a moment when my mouth was open, aghast at what I was seeing, feeling,...

13/07/2008

Hot Rod : Dare To Be Different

The great thing about being a web based magazine is the fact we can point out great things that live in traditional paper magazines without worrying about stupid things like market share and publishers and all that jazz.  Hot Rod magazine is an institution, having been around from the early days of hot rod culture as a paper fanzine all the way up to the present day championing causes like environmental impact of scraping old cars they have always been involved in the hobby of modifying...

03/07/2008