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JOHNNY HUNKINS. CURRENT STAFFER ON WHAT HOT ROD MEANS TO ME

HRM: What does HOT ROD represent, in your opinion?

HOT ROD is unlike every other car magazine—and I’ve worked for a lot of them—in that it is about inclusion rather than exclusion. When other magazines singled out one make of car, one era of car, or one build style of car, HOT ROD always embraced them all. For all the grief we get about favoring one brand or another, HOT ROD is universal. There’s no drawing of a line in the sand and saying, “If your car isn’t old enough or isn’t this brand, or that style,

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