The Fender® Vintage Hot Rod 57 Strat® with Candy Apple red finish bridges the gap between the Fender® Stratocasters® from the Custom Shop and production model Strats®.

Loaded with the most requested custom features built into Custom Shop models, the Stratocaster® Vintage Hot Rod 57 is equipped with Parallel SCN (Neck), SCN (Mid), and DiMarzio® Dual Blade Tone Zone™ (Bridge) pickup, a softer "V"-shaped neck, and an American Vintage Synchronized tremolo.

Fender® SCN pickups deliver souped-up fireball feel and time-honored Fender® tone heritage with a noise-free design that'll let your guitar purr like a kitten or howl like a banshee.

With the special design combination of traditional magnets and new Samarian Cobalt magnetic material, the illustrious spank-and-clank Strat® sound roars forth from these pickups with eight-cylinder dynamic and magnetic response that actually dusted most of our coveted Kennedy-era test pickups.

The Tone Zone™ humbucking Strat® replacement pickup has built in the tremendous mid-range and bass response of the original Tone Zone®, and the same patented dual-resonance design produces great harmonics.

We also took into account the likelihood of installing The Strat® style Tone Zone™ in the classic slanted Strat® bridge position, by warming up the higher frequencies and brightening the low notes a little.

This is a vintage style Strat® customized the way you like it! Get a brand-new guitar with that magical broken-in feel, but set up to be a real world player’s instrument.

Classic vintage styling and a thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish mingle with modern pickups and a slimmed, softened "V"-style neck and medium jumbo frets on the Vintage Hot Rod '57 Strat®.

Nitrocellulose lacquer, which is a highly sought-after finish found on vintage guitars, lets the wood's tonality shine through and project allowing it to breathe and reverberate, it will "break in" easily and enhance the overall tone of the instrument.

The result is a guitar with a vintage feel and modern tonal capabilities, giving it a broken-in vibe and adding functionality to a classic instrument. If you ever wanted the feeling you can only get from playing a great-sounding, broken-in guitar but want a new instrument, here it is!

The Vintage Hot Rod '57 Strat's® one-piece maple neck has that comfortable broken-in feeling, thanks to its slimmed and softened "V" shape. A flatter fingerboard radius and medium jumbo frets also contribute to the easy playability of this instrument, which also comes with a vintage tweed case.

The select alder body of the Fender® Vintage Hot Rod 57 Stratocaster® captures the sounds of Buddy Holly, Dick Dale, Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Billy Corgan, and John Mayer just to name a few!

Leo Fender® wasn't afraid to "think outside the box" when it came to guitar designs - after all, he was an engineer, not a guitar player - and aren’t we all thankful.

This Stratocaster® is featured in a Candy Apple Red finish!