Rod and Custom was one of the few American hot rod magazines available here in New Zealand in the early sixties.
I used to buy it every now and then (never a regular subscriber,) until the Campbell brothers started publishing the New Zealand Hot Rod Magazine.
That had more local content that I could relate to; so R & C went by the board.
But R & C was the magazine that initially started me into playing with 'old cars'; so it's sad and disappointing to hear of the demise of an icon.