af/x cadillac 1962-63

ronebee · #1 08-25-2012, 01:10 AM

Ok, just bought a bunch of old Hot-Rod Mags and in the "letter section" there is a guy who cames to have a factory built altered wheel base, aluminum bodied factory Cadillac Drag Car (the magazine is from the 1970's), he claims Cadillac Built 16 of them but then sold them to Reynolds as scrap because it was the wrong image. Anybody ever heard anything about these?

**markjohnson** · #2 08-25-2012, 01:24 AM

Please check that particular issue of Hot Rod to see if it's an April issue.

ronebee · #3 08-25-2012, 02:12 AM

thats funny, I'll pull it out, I think the guy was serious

**markjohnson** · #4 08-25-2012, 02:50 AM

Please don't think I was being a smart ass but Hot Rod was pretty well known for printing goofy stuff like that every April for years.

ronebee · #5 08-25-2012, 11:31 AM

No, I thought your comment was funny, July 1979 edition, POST ENTRY (letters to the editor) Page 17 "Cadillac Power in Lincoln", written by a Bill Stoughton in Lincoln Nebraska. I'd call him myself, but what the hell would i say? his claim is an "altered wheelbase 1962 Coupe Deville body made out of Aluminum"

**whitetop** · #6 08-25-2012, 11:37 AM

As Mark Johnson said, Hot Rod and Car Craft would do goofy stuff like this back then...I think it was all tongue in cheek by them or the letter writer for the lulz. Back then they would run letters that related to each other /inside jokes for months at a time. If you did not happen to read the earlier issues the meaning was lost.

Magazine were a lot less serious back then and goofed around quite often.

John Asher and crew were total goofballs (in a good way) back then.