Hot Rod Magazine Covers 2017 HB Cruise-In

Posted on May 10, 2017 by in What's New

Hot Rod Magazine’s Mark Gearhart attended the 2017 Factory Five Huntington Beach Cruise-In and wrote a nice report with 59 awesome photos of the event. Here are a few.

Click here to view the full gallery on Hot Rod’s website.


Factory Five Roadsters were the most popular model at this year’s Cruise-In.


Factory Fives lined the first three blocks of Main Street. Most were Roadsters, but other makes like the 818 and the GTM were well represented.


This year’s Cruise-In had eight Type 65 Coupes!


Hot Rods were second only to the Roadsters as very popular Factory Five models.

Click here to view the full gallery on Hot Rod’s website.

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