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This issue is all about "inspiration." The dictionary describes it like this: "the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative." After checking out all the amazing model cars in this issue, you'll be heading for the workbench with a lot of creative ideas! Our "Box Stock Suburban" might not look like the box art, but it's only what came in the box, honest.

In this issue; our Pro Street '55 Chevy gets a new interior, Roy does a re-do on a '50 Olds, we check out Tamiya's new Mustang GT4 kit, more cool stuff off the web, 1/8th Scale Donovan 417 motor (part two), and we detail out the Foose '67 Charger! TWELVE PAGES of READER'S MODELS!! We spot light some of coolest models around, all done by our readers!

This is our first big Greater Salt Lake City International Model Car Championship issue! Let's hope we get to do it again in another two years! Our coverage is more about attending the event, then it is about the cars that were there. There's other model magazines for that, we don't do traditional events coverage. But I think you're going to love this coverage. We build the GSL25 giveaway Corvette, smooth out 3D parts (or at least try to), build a custom interior on a budget, "Venom" Part 3, Ferrari Prestige (two really cool Ferraris), Our feature car is Shane Harrolds amazing '41 Chevy truck, and a unique piece of modeling history brought back to life; Olaf Wahl's '46 Ford convertible.

In this issue we have three great events to enjoy: 1) HooptiCon from Sonoma Raceway; a wacky weekend of weird car shows and the 24 Hours of Lemons! 2) The Lonestar Round Up from Texas; Shane Garletts brings us some great photos of vintage hot rods and customs; and 3) The California Mille; Northern California's best vintage car rally! In addition, we take a look at some very interesting and unique concept cars from last summer's Motor Week on the Monterey Peninsula, and our project car "BOB" gets all new safety glass installed. Very interesting issue to explore!

Our yearly race car issue. Featuring Sonoma Historics, Tudor Championship from Monterey, Famoso Drag's "March Meet", and the NASCAR Save Mart 350. Also in this issue; Auto Art by Al DiMauro and the All Girl car show! This is a special 0% advertising issue! 0% ads---100% fantastic photos!

In this issue we take you to my hometown car show, the Castro Valley Car Show! Then we head for Sonoma Raceway for some drifting during the WinterJam! Three great feature cars, Ramon Coria's 1937 Ford Roadster, Roger Blanchar's 1959 Chevy convertible, and Steve Morgan's 1951 Henry J Custom. We also visit the John Mozart collection and give you an update on our project car, BOB.

Big variety in this issue. MCB builds it's first diesel truck! Clay Kemp builds a IMCA Modified, we use Tamiya paints on a box stock '61 Impala build, add more details to our Foose pick up, and SIX pages of NNL East pictures! Will, SEVEN if you count the back cover!

Special GSL25 extended coverage! 8 pages of some of the nation's best model cars! We premiere Revell's '29 Roadster and '57 Ford wagon kit! Rodney Williams builds a Mercedes classic. The Lynx Project is uncovered.Venom part four: Interior. Centerfold is Mike Hensley's wild 1960 "Truckster"!!

In this issue we take you to the always fun Rattle Trap Revival in Valley Ford, CA to see some cool hot rods. We visit the Sonoma Historics and check out some great vintage car racing. A few months later we're back in Sonoma for NASCAR racing. Our project car continues with the Vintage Air insulation in our '30 Coupe. Then 14 pages of the GREAT RACE!! Including a gorgeous Auburn in our very special centerfold.

If you enjoy vintage drag racing, then this is a "must have" issue for you! We have both the Nitro Revival from Monterey, California, and The Race of Gentlemen (TROG), from Wildwood, New Jersey. Two fantastic events, and we have the BEST photos of these two events that you'll ever see! Next we have coverage from Woodies on the Wharf from Santa Cruz, California and another great Northern California show near the water; the Benicia Classic Car Show! To round things out, we have the Winter Jam drifting competition from Sonoma Raceway.

In this issue: The Cobra Experience! Even if you're not a Ford fan, this is a very interesting museum! Grand National Roadster Show, don't miss our coverage of the "Grand Daddy" of all car shows! Dave Pharr builds a show stopper of a wagon for his wife! We visit Moal Coachworks for a behind the scenes look at this world class shop?

Special TEN YEAR Anniversary issue! This issue is packed! Build ups in this issue; Chrysler 300, the new Jeep Wagoneer, '29 Ford Roadster--adding details, John Teresi's Coors Corvette F/C, and Roy's Pro Street '55 Chevy! Feature cars include; Michael Bale's wild crew cab, Speed's RPU, Dan Himmel's slingshot dragster, and Mark Laird's amazing turbine Indy car! Plus a look at ten years of MCB...

In this issue with visit the Mullin Museum in Oxnard, CA, take a look back at 1960s drag racing in Northern California, visit the Mooneyes Christmas Party and vintage drags, tour Roy Brizio's Street Rods, our project car gets TANKED! Special feature car is 1963 Grand Sport, we spend the day with Indy Car teams as they test at Sonoma Raceway, and Neil Vanzile builds a scale replica of the Mooneyes slingshot dragster.

In this issue we show you how to use Archer's Transfers to add weld beads and louvers to your next mold, how to make a simple one piece mold with Alumilite's Super Casting Kit, TDR 3D printed Pro Mod chassis, Dr. Cranky's book reviewed, our Pro Mod 1'16th scale project gets driver cockpit details, Charles Cochran's "Venon" Part 1, and a ton of feature cars!

Hold on tight! We're covering a lot og ground in this issue! First stop, the "Art of Speed" exhibit in Utah. Then Coronado Speed Festival in San Diego. Then back up to Northern California for the first time ever on American soil: The World Touring Car Championship at Sonoma Raceway. Place we visit Sanderson Headers to see how these great headers are built! Then back down to SoCal for the Grand Daddy of all car shows; the 2013 Grand National Roadster Show! Great issue, I hope you enjoy it!

In this issue we bring you part one of our coverage of the Historic Car Week in Monterey. Our coverage in this issue includes the Thursday tour down the Pacific Coast Highway, Motorsports Reunion & PB Concours! We celebrate road trips with a trip to SoCal to visit Surf City Garage and the Classic Chevy Show! And we catch up with Faith Granger on her road trip up the coast promoting her movie "Deuce of Spades". Our race coverage includes Ferrari Days and the NHRA Sonoma Nationals! Plus we take a look at two new Hybrid Super Cars!

44 PAGES!! Packed with some of the best model cars in the country! NNL West model car convention drew just over1,000 model cars filling its packed tables! But just like previous year's book, we'll also show you the swap meet, the "Make N' Take", award ceremony & more!

Recently we were invited to visit Canepa's amazing automotive facility in Scotts Valley, California in the Santa Cruz mountains. From the outside the shop looks like another office building, but on the inside it's gear head heaven! In this special 16 PAGE feature, you're going to see some really amazing cars! Then we take you to the sports car races at Laguna Seca, we look back at a visit to Craig Breedlove's "Spirit of America" LSR shop, a peek into the Design Center at the Petersen museum, Toad's '58 Chevy from the movie American Graffiti gets a new lease on life, and Dennis Sastini and his son breath new life into our magazine project car!

Our special story is a close up look of John Teresi's award winning Harley Drag Bike that just won "People's Choice" at NNL West. Rodney builds a cool '32 Ford Roadster. We finish the Datsun 240Z in the second part on building twin Datsuns. Roy builds the Polarlights '65 GTO and is surprised that it is a snap kit! Special centerfold is the "Pontuna" custom Pontiac by "Doc" MidKiff. Workbench column continues with a new tool, and we have some great "Web Tips"!

This new issue is PACKED with great articles! Check it out: 1) Pebble Beach Classic Car Forum (picture Gene Winfield & Ed Iskenderian leaning on Ed's 1940 hot rod talking about the good old days), 2) The Northern California Reliability Run (Bay Area rodders take their car for an all day drive!), 3) Hot Rod Hill Climb (from Colorado--I think our cover shot says it all!), 4) Dream Cars of the 1960s (you won't believe the cool cars, and great pics!), 5) Pebble Beach Tour d'Elegance (if you've been reading HC for awhile, you know this is my favorite shoot), 6) The Quail (It's tough to get into this big buck event, we did it this year!), and 7) The LA Roadster Show (What happen to this grand old event this year?). This is very much a "You gotta' drive them" edition of HOT CARS.

We build some super cars! A Lamborghini race car, we finish the Golden Paganini, a supercharged Camaro, and Roy builds a Pro Street Daytona that is going viral on the internet! Our cover car is a cool garage find Mustang by Rick Gonzalez! Part one on a dual turbocharged Pro Touring '55 Chevy that is going to knock your socks off! In Workbench Tools we play with Silly Putty and a cool chassis jig! Events coverage is a Pomona model car contest from the year 2000! Welcome to our Covid19 special edition!

Special Pebble Beach Issue! We take you to the tour on Thursday along Pacific Coast Highway, and onto the 18th green on Sunday. Plus we have the racing action from Laguna Seca on Saturday! Also in this expanded issue: California Hot Rod Reunion, "Billetproof" car show, and TWO Indy Car Champions are crowned in Northern California!

We have a ton of cool stories that will inspire you and get you fired up to build this winter! In the last issue we gave you a glimpse of Amalgam's unbelievable scale replica's in our centerfold. In this issue we take a closer look at what it takes to turn out these big buck creations. You might be able to afford the $5,000.00 kit, but wouldn't be cool if you could? Next up is a feature on an amazing VW Camper that you have to see to believe. It ranges high on the "originality" scale! Then an old friend of mine Rodney Williams step up and asked if he could contribute some articles to Model Car Builder? Rodney is a nationally acclaimed airplane model builder who builds museum quality replicas that wins awards wherever he goes. He puts that same attention to detail in his model cars. I look forward to seeing more from Rodney. I had lined up another four page how-to article for the final pages of the magazine, but the writer pulled it at the last minute. So BIG SURPRISE: EVENTS COVERAGE! That's right, for the first time, and hopefully the last, we have events coverage from the local Goodguys car show. I don't like to do events coverage because we're a "how-to" magazine, but since this issue seems to have a life of its own I decided to fill the last minute pages with some of the more interesting models at the Goodguys Autumn Nationals. Build ups include Revell's new 1967 Camaro SS, and the re-issue of Monogram's Cherry Bomb. Plus more Web Tips!

Revell's Hurst/Olds is a great kit, we give you a step by step build to check it out. Want to try your hand on rust or weathering? We give you some great tips. We test TESTORS new airbrush kit. Show you how to apply C1 Models metalizer dust! We build a Revell chopper. Plus some neat feature cars, web tips, and more...

We have some fantastic eye candy in this issue! If you're into custom Merc's this is a "must have" issue! We do a special feature on the historic Merc's that competed at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Then we cover two weekends of drag racing here in Northern California, including some amazing night shots of Friday nights qualifying! Then we have reports on the Gooding & Russo/Steele auctions during Monterey's Car Week. A report about the NEW Petersen museum.

We have three really great build's in this issue! Norman Sterner shows us how he scratchbuilt his amazing, big scale, Supermodified! Three modelers join forces to build a replica of Bill Burnham's famous, "Old Blue" '29 roadster. Then John Teresi returns with a step by step on building a replica of a friend's '30 Gasser coupe. Plus, coverage of the Goodguys West Coast Nationals Model Car Contest, and a look at next issue's project!

In this issue of HOT CARS we celibrate "AUTO RACING" and bring you coverage from four of Northern Californias best races: American LeMans Series, Sonoma Historics, NASCAR road course racing, and the NHRA Nats!! Plus we have the LA Roadster Show, the NorCal KnockOut, and much more...

Special feature on the Italiano show from Monterey! If you love Ferraris, Lambos, Etc., then you're going to love this issue! Our centerfold is amazing. Other features include a look at the Cooley brothers historic Fuel Altered, a trip to the Packard museum in Afton, OK, we party at the Mooneyes Christmas party and drag race, we go to a sports car race with a hot rod show in the middle of it, and more...

We continue our coverage of Motor Week from Monterey with photos from the world famous Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and the Motorsport Reunion historic car races. We visit just a few of the great gas stations along Route 66. Then we have a huge selection of NorCal events for you to check out; Billetproof, NorCal KnockOut, Hot Rod Party, and Castro Valley Car Show! Our feature car in this issue is Ron Pfisterers amazing "Sunmad" 1955 Nomad!

This issue is Packed! How to: Colder Solder, Gas Truck details, Parachute Details, Venom Part 2, Big Buck Build: Injector details, detailing a snap kit, mold casting part two, and FIVE feature cars!