Honest question… what changed in the 60’s?

[Bill Pritchard]

It's a great question, but one that probably has no single definitive answer. Different people are going to have different opinions, and there's probably not enough bandwidth on this Site to publish them all.

A little more than ten years after the issue of Hot Rod magazine that you pictured, Hot Rod was featuring custom vans, and I thought the world as I knew it had come to an end.