Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.
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Ashley
Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 1426 Location: Near Stroud, Glos
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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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My son’s ‘41 Business Coupe got itself on the front page of Custom Car. No I hadn’t heard of it either, but it did mean I have to go into a Newsagent and look for it. I was astonished that there are still so many magazines available when I haven’t bought any for years, though I did used to subscribe to the Automobile.
TBH I don’t like them because they give the impression of being written to support advertisers of which there are too many and to push up prices.
IMO the golden age of magazines has long gone. After the war, huge numbers of all sorts of interesting new cars appeared and the mags seemed to have attracted some very knowledgeable, often highly qualified journalists to write about them. I have a series of Motor Year books from 48-56 and they’re brilliant, a valuable resource, but most of what I read now........ |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4765 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Rick
Did this prog, first broadcast on 28-02.19 prompt the thread?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002r7c _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6330 Location: Derby
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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Many years ago there was a serious magazine called 'Veteran and Vintage'. When it went to the wall it's place was taken by "The Automobile".Introduced in 1983; I began collecting them. I have every copy from Vol. 1 No. 1 up to a few years ago. Over 30 years of collecting and I hardly ever revisit them. That's a lot of magazines and I would sell the collection. Buyer would collect from Derby. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22454 Location: UK
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2476 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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I used to buy a lot more car magazines than I do now - in fact I tend to trawl around the NEC classic car show now to see what issues I can get from the magazines own stands, usually either free in exchange for an email address, or a nominal charge. I have loads and loads of magazines and I'm trying to bring myself to get rid of some.
PC is a good example - I've got loads of issues from the 80s and 90s, most of the how-to articles in those have been repeated, in much better print quality, or in videos on the web which in some cases can be much more useful.
I took some from home to put in the shed in plastic boxes with sachets of silica gel. I have filled five or six plastic boxes so far, yet the pile at home doesn't seem to have reduced at all. Are they breeding while my back is turned? |
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6330 Location: Derby
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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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MikeEdwards wrote: | I
I have filled five or six plastic boxes so far, yet the pile at home doesn't seem to have reduced at all. Are they breeding while my back is turned? |
...they get up to all sorts if left to their own devices... |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22454 Location: UK
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52classic
Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 493 Location: Cardiff.
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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My loft insulation can be read as a history of motor car publishing and a monitor to how my tastes changed through the years.
Hot Car, Custom Car, Cars and Car conversions. Next came 'Car' a magazine which single handedly stripped the UK motor industry of any dignity it had left!
Then Practical Classics, during the Peter Simpson era. They still make a good read when I have occasion to venture into the attic. Haven't bought a PC since they raped that poor old Marina Coupe for the General Lee project!
Classic Cars and C&SC vie for attention during the 80's boom, in some months I must have bought both of them! Somewhere along the way we see a few copies of Your Classic. I liked it but, I must have been on my own 'cos I think that one folded.
Not sure when I stopped, some time around the Millennium I guess. Prices went up, content went repetitive. New staff writers became journalists before car enthusiast. Not quite sure.
I buy 2 or 3 a year now. Ease the boredom of a holiday flight or the armchair days between Christmas and new year. Strangely, I find Classic Car Weekly the best of a bad bunch.
Will they die out? I think not, There's little that's new in the marketing game and someone will rediscover the intimacy of the printed word. Then off we go again. |
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badhuis
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 10:30 am Post subject: |
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52classic wrote: | New staff writers became journalists before car enthusiast. |
Interesting you think like that. I feel the opposite was going on, there is just too much car enthusiasm and less thoroughly written articles.
I have always enjoyed Car magazine, the early years of Practical Classics. In the 90s Classic and Sportscar were pretty good, they provided real background stories of car development and such, undiscovered stories you did not find in the books. Often they took the trouble to actually speak to the men who were working on the cars back in the years.
Nowadays you never see that, only stories of happy classic car owners and "testing" restored cars.
One exception is The Automobile, the only one currently I have subscribed to.
The boxes of 80s and 90s full of classic car magazines I have disposed of years ago. However there still are some boxes of 40s, 50s and 60s full of Motor and Autocar which were bought at jumbles years ago. Still need to look into that, maybe when I am older and have more time _________________ a car stops being fun when it becomes an investment |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1955 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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I used to enjoy the articles by LJK Setright...especially during the 1960's, when, as-a-lad, I had a subscription to the US magazine Road & Track...[birthday pressie usually] _________________ Dellow Mk2, 1951 built, reg 1952.
Fiat 126 BIS
Cannon special [1996 registered. Built in 1950's]
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Ford Pop chassis, Ashley 1172 bodyshell, in pieces. |
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alanb
Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 516 Location: Berkshire.
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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alastairq wrote: | I used to enjoy the articles by LJK Setright...especially during the 1960's, when, as-a-lad, I had a subscription to the US magazine Road & Track...[birthday pressie usually] |
LJK Setright Now there's a motoring journalist I haven't heard of for a while, he was able to make the most mundane cars sound interesting and the interesting exotic whilst still giving an honest view and accurate description, I loved reading his articles. _________________ old tourer
Morris 8 two seater |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1955 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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His father invented the Setright ticket machine...something I used in anger during my early bus driving days..loved it!...so easy to flick off a ticket with one hand....[as a one-person-operator] _________________ Dellow Mk2, 1951 built, reg 1952.
Fiat 126 BIS
Cannon special [1996 registered. Built in 1950's]
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Ford Pop chassis, Ashley 1172 bodyshell, in pieces. |
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Norseman
Joined: 09 Jan 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Essex UK
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Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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I've subscribed to Classic Car Weekly for several years but I'd never buy or sub. to the glossy publications at their cover prices these days. The only time I get to read those is if they are 'recycled' to me, having been bought by friends
I'm not a lover of on-line reading, there's nothing like the proper read of a publication that's dropped through the door ! _________________ 1987 classic Range Rover Vouge
1998 E39 523i SE sedan
A great many models have served me well since the 'sixties, all of them old & some even older than me. |
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Norseman
Joined: 09 Jan 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Essex UK
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Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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alastairq wrote: | His father invented the Setright ticket so easy to flick off a ticket with one hand....[as a one-person-operator] |
And equally easy to cost yourself money if you forgot to zero the high value dials before issuing a ticket !
I was a conductor on Eastern National back in the 'sixties.
nb: also used both Gibson & Almex machines over the years, as a London Transport conductor & Green Line OMO driver. _________________ 1987 classic Range Rover Vouge
1998 E39 523i SE sedan
A great many models have served me well since the 'sixties, all of them old & some even older than me. |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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I'd put a picture up, but Flickr won't let me even though I haven't reached anywhere near the free limit. But have you seen the new magazine that has just launched? Led by David Lillywhite, he who started Octane, it is called Magneto. I received a complimentary copy of #1, and it is well researched and written, if somewhat highbrow. And since it will be quarterly, it may well avoid regurgitating the same things all the time. |
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