SPEED PARTS HALL OF FAME

HOT ROD’s objective has always been to cover what’s happening in the hot rodding world—the people, the trends, the races, the culture, the cars, the builds, and so on.

- Tori Tellem

But sometimes we’re about spotlighting what’s not happening, and at one point, it had to do with speed parts. Sure, we’d been featuring them on the pages for 60 years, since the Jan. ’48 issue’s “Parts with Appeal” showcased a fuel pump. The problem as we saw it was that, to date, there had been no hall of fame for the aftermarket parts that helped to build an industry. HOFs did exist, such as the Automotive Hall of Fame and Motorsports Hall of Fame, but there was nothing for speed parts.