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Originally Posted by john walker's workshop
Too many jealous folks giving him shiite.
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I don't know that I'd put it that way... It's just that in this day and age, it's becoming very easy to overshoot your 15 min of fame. I thought his story and cars were cool initially. Then I read about it again on every forum I read. And again in every magazine I received. And every specialized site (petrolicious, BAT, Porsche, etc). Then rennsport, Momo wheels, model cars... At some point I don't know if the person loses control of the media, of if they overshoot their self publicity... It got tiring because the implication was he invented that look, and I know Rolly had a car like that many many moons before... I have no opinion on the person per se, I'm sure he's a nice dude... but I was tired of every porsche media outlet being all about Magnus... I'm falling into the same trap with Rod Emory. I have a lot of respect for what he builds. Back when I had 356s he was the man. But there's a post on how "Rod's grandpa invented hotrods" every goddamn day on petrolicious or facebook or another site. Seriously, when you see it daily it gets old... Someone should tell people when their publicity jumps the shark ;-)
I think it's a matter of "the right amount" of exposure... That and I need to surf less ;-) But you get my drift...