I guess the old edict of not caring what they say as long as they are talking about you still applys, but unfortunately I do care and no, we didn't get bought out. But, if we start another magazine, I'm gonna call that guy that started this thread... Tits and Tunes, I like that.
When I started Grassroots Motorsports 20 years ago (this year) I wanted to make a down to earth magazine for guys that like to fix up and autocross or race fairly low buck 5-25 year old cars. Twenty years ago this would include stuff like Triumph TR3s, Porsche 914s and Datsun Z cars. We were about the cars you would find on used car lots, not classic car dealerships.
Well, I never had any idea that 20 years later things like message boards would exist and I would still be doing the same thing. Unfortunately, as I got older, so did the cars I loved to write about. If we stick with our original premise we can't write about stuff like TR3s and heck, even 914s anymore. So, I had to make some choices last year. I could try to span fifty years of cars and really make the magazine too diluted or divide it into two magazines with about 25 years of cars in each. I was offered a deal on British Car magazine and we transformed that into our Classic Motorsports, which has become quite successful.
I am not a hard and fast rule kind of guy so we plan to have some overlap. Personally, while I love all cars I drive a 1973 Porsche 914 2.0, a 1967 Myers Manx and a 1995 BMW M3. I also have a trio of Berkeleys, a rotary powered Spitfire, a vintage race Triumph TR3, a 1963 Ranchero and a 1929 Model A Ford. But, that said, when I go to autocross and race events around the country I see a lot of late model Japanese cars out there, so we cover them. We don't cover fart cans, neon lights and all the other crap that the other magazines cover, nor will we ever. We also don't take $20,000-30,000 cars and put $50,000 of our advertisers money into them like one magazine in particular has a tendency to do.
If there is something you want to see, or something we are not doing correctly, I am willing to sit here at my computer well into the middle of every night until we figure out how to make you happy. If you want to email me privately or give me a call. My number is 386 673 4148 and my email is
grmtim@aol.com