Beginning Nov. 1, all 74 years of Hot Rod Magazines will be available online, free, in PDF format, on MotorTrend+... provided you sign up for an account with Motor Trend. I guess that means getting their app? Or accessing through their website

Hot Rod says they’ve digitized more than 128,000 pages of their magazine from more than 900 issues. That’s hundreds of thousands of photos, ads, and books of stories

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