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Classic Car magazines
Ok. I get Car and Driver (mostly for Brock Yates) and I get Road and Track (mostly for Peter Egan).
I get Excellence - and the Esses. I used to get Collector Car, but I think they've gone belly up. How come there aren't more classic car magazines? Is there no demand? Or am I missing some - especially as related to European classics. Besides the Pelican BBS, what are you reading?
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I read R+T, C+D, Excellence, 911 and Porsche World, Total 911, GT Purely Porsche, European Car and just recently got back into Modern Drummer. I like to read about all cars but the list gets too expensive to cover all of the vehicles.
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Expensive this is true!
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Excellence, Double Gun Journal, Fine Home Building, MPH, Car and Driver, Old House Journal, Juggs.
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In London now and always pick up a "Classic Car" and "911 and Porsche World" over here. "Excellence" is still the best but the UK mags are very good as well.
Wish there was a cheaper way to subscribe to them but I have not found it yet. Joe
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Something that you read after working on the 911 too much. Late at night you open them up and look at the pictures and drool... it helps at times!
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Octane. No question. Expensive, but worth it. Great columns by Jay Leno, Sir Stirling Moss, and Nick Mason. Even though UK based, they do from time to time feature American iron.
http://www.octane-magazine.com/ Recently, Motor Trend has launched Motor Trend Classic that is almost a direct copy asthetically of Octane, but the content is not as good. A beef I have with them is that they use photos previousely used in other magazines. Nevertheless, a cheap alternative to Octane. |
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Yep, I get Road & Track and Excellence, but I also get Octane and Motorsport for the classic car content. They are pricey because they are based in the UK, but it's worth it.
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My Urologist is a Euro car nut. I joke with him having the best car magazine collection around. The one mag I find myself reading everytime I go (which is thankfully infrequent) is Sports Car Market. Gives a different perspective on whats going on in the classic (mostly) euro car world.
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Classic & Sports car is my favorite, with Practical Classics being close second. Both UK publications... very different than the north american stuff. I find the writing is fantastic, and very eclectic mix of cars & projects.
My other favorite magazine is This Old House. Every issue, I find useful information... it has literally saved me hundreds of dollars over the past year. Used to buy R&T, but now Peter Egan's columns are available online or in his books. R&T doesn't even have decent Salon Articles anymore.
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Only car magazine I get now is the 356 Registry mag (well worth the $35/y alone) but I've got hundreds of old car mags - R&T from the early 50s thru 80s, Sports Car Illustrated (which became Car & Drive) from late 50s on to 80s, Sports Car Graphic, etc.
I really need to build a DB of these so I can sell 'em
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I get Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car. Great, real world stories combined with unobtainium.
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How about Motorsport ? Excellent magazine.
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I also recently started subscribing to Hemmings "Sports and Exotic Car" and find it to be fun and interesting with a variety of cult classic features as well as unique and rare cars, very down to Earth presentation.
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Victory Lane and Vintage racecar journel
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Try Hemmings "Sports& Exotic Car". Lots of European classic articles and as others have said, a "very down to earth presentation".
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Just one mag coming into the house now: Sports Car International. The articles are short, but these guys write like they don't care if they EVER get any more advertising.
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