skinnylew
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Forgotten magazines skinnylew
@skinnylew
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Aug 19, 2020 16:23:08 GMT
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Popular classics was one of my reading choices as a young teen. Also loved the earlier editions of Revs, was disappointed when it went all Max Power. Have some copies of Motor from the 50/60's i think and also some Fast Lane magazines in the loft
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Aug 19, 2020 19:05:51 GMT
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I learnt a lot reading CCC magazines left around when i was 11 . I still consider that the best magazine . I loved the ' At the clinic ' feature where some one would bring there car in and it would be assessed and improvements suggested . The sheer variety of stuff was awesome as well .I can remember the navy blue and white twin turbo v8 Minor and Manta GTE turbo well to this day .
I really like Revs magazine as well until it went all maxpower copy . The early stuff was great and pretty funny as well. I really wanted the sky blue Mk1 gti in one of the first editions .
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Aug 20, 2020 10:16:09 GMT
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Maybe the first of the 'design' led magazines that I remember coming across, with quite a focus on social/international/cultural aspects of the car, was Intersection. Not sure how long it lasted (was quarterly in the early '00s) but I've got up to issue 14, and a hardback copy that predated the regular magazines. Hmm, I should pick up a few to re-read. Intersection is still going apparently : www.intersectionmagazine.com/ I thought it ended years ago. Seems there is now a French edition too, which seems to be what their Instagram is : www.instagram.com/intersectionmagazine/?hl=enI remember it as the first place I saw my favourite concept car ever:
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60six
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Aug 20, 2020 23:05:20 GMT
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My favorite from the early 90's was 'Jalopy'. Didn't last long but was right up my street at the time. Found the first edition the other day.
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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turbom
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Aug 22, 2020 10:48:12 GMT
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Street machine I always brought that and max power and revs until it went all chavy. Fast car too until you guessed it went all chavy too. I did have a few copies of chrome and flames I seem to remember it was a global custom mag. I did buy a copy of full boost magazine because it had a rat look escort cossie with safari snorkel and fuel cans on the roof rack, I think it was a euro mag or euro inspired mag.
CCC was a grown up petrol heads motorsport mag to me. lots of great tech stuff...
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60six
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Aug 22, 2020 22:59:38 GMT
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I remember in the dying days of Max Power, it was 10% cars and 90% soft pron! My mum thought I was being far too casual as I browsed through in the front room. She assumed it was pron too.
Damn, out of all the decades I really did go nuts in the 1990's. I was 17 at the start and it really was the decade that introduced me to cars, women, pills, thrills and bellyaches!
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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Aug 22, 2020 23:14:06 GMT
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Hot Rod And Custom Uk was a favourite until it's demise.
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Brian Damaged
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Forgotten magazines Brian Damaged
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Good lord, sometimes it's nice to be old. I was 14 when Street Machine launched in April 1979, but I was already an avid car magazine collector and a regular reader of SM's older brother Hot Car (1968-1983, when it became Performance Car, which ran until 1998). Custom Car (launched in 1970 and still going) and CCC (1965-2003) were always a great read...the closest thing to CCC today would probably be Practical Performance Car. Both magazines were published by Link House Publishing back then, who also launched the short-lived by more reverential Hot Rod & Custom (1978-1982) and the shortest-lived but possibly the most relevant magazine to this forum, Auto Performance. AP was launched in 1982 and covered the more grassroots side of motorsport as well as affordable modified roadcars. Sadly it only lasted just under three years. In a rather timely but bizarre twist, AP ran several huge features on Autograss racing including one on a pair of young brothers from Warwickshire who were bagging trophies with their spaceframed Specials. They're not so young now.....I had dinner with one of them last night!
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turbom
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Aug 23, 2020 20:45:13 GMT
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Hot car theres a blast from the past, my dad sometimes brought it or was given a copy of it from a neighbour. All those jacked up slot mag wearing customs!!!!!
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Shortcut
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Aug 25, 2020 20:18:59 GMT
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Fast Lane was always fun, but was this replaced by the must read chav mag ...Max Power or was it Complete Car? Fast Lane was one of my go to reads back when I was in college. CCC for everyday cars and well, conversions, but as an art student I loved Fast Lane's layout and in particular I still remember they were a frequent user of a photographer (or studio) called Clickstop who specialised in photos of cars with the car barely in it, so tiny blurred cars in the far distance, etc which sounds fully art w@nky but actually looked really good (in my eyes anyway). for some reason even the full might of the internet cannot find any images or reference to him/them now though.
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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bazzateer
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CCC, Automodeller, Retro, Performance Car (Clarkson in his pre TG days).
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1968 Singer Chamois Sport 1972 Sunbeam Imp Sport 1976 Datsun 260Z 2+2 1998 Peugeot Boxer Pilote motorhome 2003 Rover 75 1.8 Club SE (daily) 2006 MG ZT 190+ (another daily) 2007 BMW 530d Touring M Sport (tow car)
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