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20 Years Ago

April 2002, 124 pages, $3.99

Miss HOT ROD 2002, Lisa Lingon graced the cover in this picture shot by Wes Allison. The car was Steve Sbelgio’s ’34 Ford coupe dubbed “The Millennium Kid” by author Ro McGonegal. Why? “It drives modern, smells modern, squeezes a computer-controlled automatic transmission clinging to an all-aluminum engine, and has amassed electronic cues and micro-processed LED fireflies

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