Australasian Hot Rod Digest
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Andyd
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Australasian Hot Rod Digest
Does anyone have any copies of or info on this early Oz hot rod magazine........in the latest, #9 copy of Graham Smith's Australian Hot Rodder there is a pic taken by Eddie Ford and published in Australasian Hot Rod Digest Vol 1, # 5, April 1963 of Ray Sprague's 32 Roadster.......produced in Sydney with Alan Crouch as editor in a pocket size............I've heard of this magazine but this is the first pic I've seen from the magazine and am curious as to when it started & finished & how many issues were published.........a search under that title only brings up Australian Hot Rod which is not the same magazine.........I have a complete set of Australian Rodding World which was published May 1965 to(I think) January 1967 and its not that magazine..........so........anyone got info regarding Australasian Hot Rod Digest.........and if you do and are going to thin the magazine herd I'm interested...........lol..........Andy Douglas.
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Mr Model A
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Re: Australasian Hot Rod Digest
I have seen pics of these on fb, it was published in NSW and I don't think many copies made there way
down here, so you'd have more chance up your way of finding copies, from memory Alan Crouch was doing it.
Not sure, but OldCol may have some.
down here, so you'd have more chance up your way of finding copies, from memory Alan Crouch was doing it.
Not sure, but OldCol may have some.
never odd or even
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Andyd
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Re: Australasian Hot Rod Digest
MrModelA.....thanks for posting that pic.....was talking to Graham Smith yesterday and apparently Eddie Ford has a set of this mag so I'll give him a call........andyd
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Re: Australasian Hot Rod Digest
Andy, Eddie is definitely your man to talk to. We used to sell the mag at the gates to the Fishermans Bend drags. Everyone thought it was a program and by the time they found out that it wasn't they were too far away and the drags had started LOL
Was produced by Alan Crouch in Sydney- he was a typesetter at one of the Sydney newspapers. Jeff Dellow took Eddie and I to meet Alan on our first trip to Sydney and that's how it all started with selling it at the drags.
Ray's 32 was LHD with the 6" letters on the tail panel- Ray was very pro-American- and was early Poly powered. Cover pic had to be taken at an Ampol station as mag was sponsored by them. That station was on Mt. Alexander Road in Moonee Ponds.
Was produced by Alan Crouch in Sydney- he was a typesetter at one of the Sydney newspapers. Jeff Dellow took Eddie and I to meet Alan on our first trip to Sydney and that's how it all started with selling it at the drags.
Ray's 32 was LHD with the 6" letters on the tail panel- Ray was very pro-American- and was early Poly powered. Cover pic had to be taken at an Ampol station as mag was sponsored by them. That station was on Mt. Alexander Road in Moonee Ponds.