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Rick
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 12:36 pm    Post subject: Motoring magazines that are long gone Reply with quote

Morning all,

What motoring magazines do you remember reading, that are no longer available now?

As an aside, I'm often amazed at how many publications are still on sale, especially given that many are seemingly very niche indeed, and the rise of online content in recent times.

Here are a few that appear on the main site







http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/carmagazines.htm

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A bit newer than that, but I remember "Fast Lane" magazine from the eighties and perhaps early nineties. Also there was "Performance Car" which ended more recently. "Restoring Classic Cars" was another that had good intentions but didn't last the distance.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is 'Veteran & Vintage' still around?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This was one I looked forward to buying and reading.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MVPeters wrote:
Is 'Veteran & Vintage' still around?


No, unfortunately this slim but serious publication has long gone. The mantle was assumed by " The Automobile".

I have a complete collection (since 1983?) from Vol. 1 No.1. but I have stopped collecting them since a change in format make the text more difficult for me to read. I am also unhappy that in attempt to widen their readership there has been an acceptance of hot rods which had hitherto been eschewed.

I am considering selling the collection which amounts to several hundred copies of The Automobile" but I don't quite know how best to do it or what it could be worth. I have seen copies offered individually on Ebay but I can't really be bothered with all that.

Condition is good but there are no folders.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CCC. Cars and Car Conversions. Not vintage but a good few years ago! In my youth......
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've still a few copies of Jalopy around somewhere.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I lost my Jalopy magazines in a house move, but I still have some Old Motor from 1960ish
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BigJohn wrote:
I lost my Jalopy magazines in a house move, but I still have some Old Motor from 1960ish


I used to take those in the sixties. They were good if I remember correctly.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:31 pm    Post subject: Magazines Reply with quote

I have a full set of "historic race and rally". A rather good quality magazine which started in 1992. It came out every other month, but for only a year. So my full set is just 6 magazines. Lots of good articles and period advertising.
Quite a few on e-bay.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to collect "On Four Wheels". There is a great stash of them around here somewhere. Any one remember that one?
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got a couple of copies of that, with stuff that's related to my interests. I bought them second hand, so I don't recall it when it was "new".
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought Jalopy was brilliant - the antidote to motoring magazines. Remember their sport correspondent Mirling Stoss?
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 6:01 pm    Post subject: 'Practical Motorist' magazine Reply with quote

I have a collection of the 'Practical Motorist' magazines dated from September 1938 to late 1939 and then some from the mid'50's. I also have on loan, issues number 1 to issue 34.
They are a great read and they provide me with much information about the car accessory market which I write about (Join the Uxbridge CVS or the East Anglian Practical Classics or the Suffolk Vehicle Enthusiasts Club and read them...).
If anyone on the OCC has copies of the 'Practical Motorist' they do not want email me at roger952brown@hotmail.co.uk
As an OAP I can pay for postage......
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dipster wrote:
CCC. Cars and Car Conversions. Not vintage but a good few years ago! In my youth......


Me too, I used to read the print off those. Once won something, no idea what, for "tip of the month" or similar. It was about the rear brake adjusters on the Minis. Unscrew the adjuster and insert a piece of rubber hose between the back plate and that little bar that went across the back plate. Put grease into the tube and refit the adjuster. No more rusty, dirt filled and seized adjusters


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