Hot Rod Magazine

Name of Publisher	Source Interlink Media
Headquarters Location	6420 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90048-5575 US
Year Founded	1948
Releases per Year
Official Website	http://www.hotrod.com/index.html

Overview

Hot Rod magazine is an American monthly magazine devoted to hot rodding, —modifying automobiles for performance and appearance.

History of publication(s)	Hot Rod is the oldest magazine devoted to hot rodding having been published since 1948. Robert E. Petersen founded the magazine and his Petersen Publishing Company was the original publisher. Petersen Publishing was sold to British publisher EMAP in 1998, who sold the former Petersen magazines to Primedia in 2001. Today it is published by Ron Burkle's Source Interlink, who purchased the magazine in 2007. Hot Rod has licensed affiliation with Universal Technical Institute. The first editor of Hot Rod was Wally Parks who created the National Hot Rod
Subject Matter Covered	Coverage from hot rodding events, auto shows and races from all over the world, plus announcements and all the details on upcoming HOT ROD events
Principal Contributors