Hemmings Classic Cars going away

[Tobra]

Kind of sad, next February is going to be the last issue. I think this is the trend with print publications, not just for cars

I sort of like having a magazine, rather than looking at a computer screen, but I am old.

[Scott Douglas]

Say it ain't so....that's a shame.

I too am old, but once all the mags started using soy based inks, my head would clog up and my nose would start running so reading a mag became miserable.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Tobra

I sort of like having a magazine, rather than looking at a computer screen, but I am old.

I print my daily crosswords five at a time every week from the WaPo website since I can't stand doing them online...impossible for my fossilized cranium.

Which I find endearing.

I am Hans Solo in that opinion.

[Tobra]

Mom's father was a newpaperman from way back. He created the crosswords for the papers he owned/edited.

He would buy the Sunday New York Times, get the crossword puzzle and ditched the rest of the paper. He did it in ballpoint pen. I frequently find myself wishing I were as smart as he was.

[HobieMarty]

My Dad used to work crossword puzzles with a pen also.

Sent from my SM-S916U using Tapatalk

[Bob Kontak]

I used to buy the magazine in Anchorage late 80's. At least I could say, if I raped my 401k plan I could get that car.

My Dad's father was a crossword slave but was never erudite about it.

Mid 70's I washed his car in his driveway and was filing up the bucket with cold water. Bobby, it's always best to use tepid water. That's as wild as he got.

FWIW, at Christmas, Bobby, you want a high ball? I was 12. One a year.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

My Dad used to work crossword puzzles with a pen also.

If you don’t do crosswords with a pen, I use a Flair felt tip, you have no soul.

People bandy the word “cult” about, crossword people don’t bandy, we know.

[speeder]

Sad news indeed. If you really want tone depressed sometime, open an old Hemmings and peruse the selection and prices of whatever collector car you're into. Especially Porsches and Alfas. Enough to make a grown man cry.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

If you don’t do crosswords with a pen, I use a Flair felt tip, you have no soul.

People bandy the word “cult” about, crossword people don’t bandy, we know.

I just found out that you can still buy a Flair felt tip pen. So, while we may have lost Hemmings, at least we still have that.

Haven't thought about those since I can't remember when.

[red 928]

When I was a youngster we went on a field trip
to the local newspaper building.
Watching the papers fly through the printers and getting folded
and whipped through the place on the conveyors was astonishing,
I was seriously impressed with the technology and that impression never left me.
It was more impressive to me than the moon landing.

I went back to that town several years ago and the place was shut down
and the paper was no longer being printed.
Normally I don't mind progress, but that one was depressing.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Kind of sad, next February is going to be the last issue. I think this is the trend with print publications, not just for cars

I sort of like having a magazine, rather than looking at a computer screen, but I am old.

Thank you for that. I’ve still got 4 years on the royalty payments for mine. Hope they last that long. Good thing our readership has a bunch of old timers.
I was fortunate to be in the industry from the inception of computers till today. What a ride. Watching the webs switch rolls and seeing the stitchers stitch magazines together are amazing miracles of technology.
. Then - I remember walking into the room that had supported a dozen strippers and it had become a warehouse. Times change, but they were good times.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I remember walking into the room that had supported a dozen strippers and it had become a warehouse. Times change, but they were good times.

Film stripping. Man, that brings back a flood of memories.

The smallest shop I ever worked at had about a dozen strippers, 3 shifts every day, all the overtime you could eat. (The biggest I ever worked at only had 22 or 23 tables, still, that was a very busy shop.)

Lots of money got spent in printing and publishing back then. I was lucky enough to get off the stripping table and get into digital in the nick of time, around '95 or '96. Good times.

[Pazuzu]

Buncha old farts. "Oh, my magazine that only showed immaculate expensive versions of unobtainable cars, maintained by a fleet of expensive, overly trained specialists is going away!"

But, no tears being shed for the death of Roadkill, the only car show left on TV where real dudes get real cars running, on the side of the road, tell you what was wrong and how they overcame it, so they can drive them to a drag strip and rip donuts.

[red 928]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Buncha old farts. "Oh, my magazine that only showed immaculate expensive versions of unobtainable cars, maintained by a fleet of expensive, overly trained specialists is going away!"

But, no tears being shed for the death of Roadkill, the only car show left on TV where real dudes get real cars running, on the side of the road, tell you what was wrong and how they overcame it, so they can drive them to a drag strip and rip donuts.

They aren't making any more roadkill or roadkill garage episodes,
but they have a bunch of them in the can that haven't aired yet.

from the motor trend website:

Forget what you heard: Roadkill is not roadkill on the side of the streaming video superhighway. While the series itself is set to end its epic run after 167 episodes and 13 consecutive seasons, you’ll still have plenty to look forward to from the Roadkill universe, with an entire slate of episodes coming in 2025 and 2026. Don’t believe it? Hear it from the man himself, David Freiburger below.

[gsxrken]

There’s so much of what I grew up with simply slipping away. My kids are growing up in an entirely different world, although they wouldn’t know it.