History - 'Rear View

This Is Car Craft?
We were sitting around the other day realizing that no magazine in the Petersen/Primedia stable has switched directions as many times as Car Craft. In the '50s it was like Hot Rod Lite, but with more show cars and customs-fitting for a mag that was basically launched in order to have a place for cheaper ads than HRM could offer. In the late '60s, CC was a pure drag racing mag, then it became a street-scene van mag, and that was the era when it was probably the most similar to Hot Rod. Or perhaps the two were more twinlike during the Pro Street craze that followed. But then CC went on crack, feeding readers an odd mix of high-end musclecars and . . . imports! The next phase was early Pro Touring, and when that died, it became Junkyard Craft. Then there's now, the regular-guy's street-machine mag. But when we thought of our odd history, we went to the archives to find an old CC shot that is distinctly not us now. How'd we do? The chick on the twin-mill car is from an unidentified car show in 1961, and it's the type of thing you read about a lot back then.

By David Freiburger

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