I picked up this 1969 copy of Rod&Custom magazine on ebay. With the cool green model T on the cover - I'd remembered seeing it when I was a kid. Like a lot of other stuff, my folk's copy was lost in the Harris fire.
For a hot rod magazine they dedicated a ton of space to the 69 Baja 500. The first paragraph is almost illegible. A long run on sentence with some hip lingo thrown in. It reminded me that Hunter S. Thompson didn't operate in a vacuum. There were plenty of people whacked out of their minds writing. Thompson just did it well.
The article's long, luckily there are plenty of pictures to go along with it. There's also a short article on the "Norra Car Show" which I might get to later on.
This was one of the few races the Toyota Fj40 wasn't zebra striped. Duffy/Younghusband finished fifth in their class doing the 500+ mile race in 18 hours 38 minutes.
While looking over the magazine I really admired the amount of hand lettering going on. You really don't see enough of it anymore.
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