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If you want to run a magazine you need people to buy it and people to advertise in it. A bunch of people who build budget cars and only buy stuff that's cheap because it's been badly listed on ebay do not make for a good target audience. Yup.. which is why Modern Japanese car magazines and VW magazines thrive whilst our side of things doesn't .. sadly.
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I'm with turbokitten, and not just because your car is class, mate ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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don't know about you guys, but the magazines that just show loads of motorsport cars etc just bore me to tears. Its all about the dailys etc ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) Interesting. Very very different views over here!
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Street Machine for the fun stuff but Classic and Sportscar for the out of reach dream cars. ;D
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Street Machine definately! Always had the most influential stuff in it, especially late eighties and early nineties. Custom car was always a good read too, still is from time to time but i'm always put off by the £/number of pages ratio. I used to like CCC aswell back in the day but never baught it regularly for some reason. *Edited so Custom Car doesn't read 'Costume Car', lol! ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png)
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Street Machine in the mid-late '80s - start of the Pro Street explosion and kit like Nic Mann's Minor and Steve Green's Cortina. Yep, it was the backlash about the Retro kind of motors that killed it... Think the name/rights are still owned by Baur (previously Emap)?
Now here's a shocker... at the time of its inception - Max Power! A masterpiece of magazine craft that came up with the right formula at the right time, basically. Shame it all quite literally went to tits.
As of late - the original Retro Cars and Classic Ford. Very good, even if I am a tad biased through previous connections.
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Anyone remember: Classic Car Mechanics ? Hot Rod & Custom UK ? and my all time favourite from 1988 - 1989 (lasted about 12 issues) Restoring Classic Cars: ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/basilfawlty/rccmag.jpg)
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![](http://www.dberridge.dial.pipex.com/logos/jalopy.jpg) Think Autosh1te printed in A5 format. Ran from about 1992-95ish, sadly missed. I used to spend hours convulsing with laughter at it. I wish I'd kept my copies!!!
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CCC back in the 80s and the first Retro cars mag. Still happy with Practical Classics. Oh yeah, the first Performance Car mags in the 80s were cool too, esp the Clarkson articles.
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Anyone remember: Hot Rod & Custom UK ? I think I have a couple of copies of that!
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Now here's a shocker... at the time of its inception - Max Power! A masterpiece of magazine craft that came up with the right formula at the right time, basically. Shame it all quite literally went to tits. I agree and Revs was the same until it went to the tits aswell. But CCC and Street Machine were good still got my copies.
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street machine was the tits for me!!....oh and this months retro car and ppc.. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) *nips off to get coat!*
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Used to buy Street Machine and CC religiously but last few years they're just not doing it for me. Best two I get at the minute are DicE (kinda magazine you'd make yourself) and Garage (if new owner Jesse James would pull his head out of his hoop and get the publishing back online)
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....oh and this months retro car and ppc.. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) *nips off to get coat!* lol ... ain't seen this months PPC yet , I'll have to have a butchers tomorrow ;D
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You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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Hands down, Australian Street Machine. Has a very good blend of high end show/race cars with a lot of really really good dailys. Throw in a brilliant show coverage, genuinely interesting columns and good tech stories.
Haven't come across a magazine anywhere in the world that compares to it. Have every issue from 1980, some from before that.
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Street machine from the first issue till to mid 80s ( before it went VW mad ) it was raw, fun and a bloody good read. Anybody remember Real Classics? It came out in August 97 and died in May 98. A really good magazine ( ive still got every issue). Nowdays its Practical Classics, Classic van and Retro.
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....oh and this months retro car and ppc.. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) *nips off to get coat!* lol ... ain't seen this months PPC yet , I'll have to have a butchers tomorrow ;D Theres a particualry insitefull feature on Rover V8's. I can higly recommend that part as a good read ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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a lot has been said already...
I think Australian Street Machine is probably the best "general purpose" magazine in print at the moment. Shame its so damn hard to get hold of over here.
I buy Custom Car now only if theres a car in it I really want to see the feature on. But back in the day it was the bible. Yeah, I have the School Girls issue LOL.
Street Machine was a great mag back in the day. Lack of advertising revenue was what killed it. That and the people who owned the title (EMAP?) took the licence back off the people who were actually printing it. So it transitioned into American Car World. Which I don't read even though I should be its target demographic.
CCC was OK but too competition/rally/etc. for me. Would buy it for the odd feature but other than that I found it dull.
Hot Car hasn't been mentioned. It was a kind of cross between Custom Car and CCC back in the day. Some great tech, some great feature cars and a bit more "mature" than Custom Car which was the Max Power of its day I guess...
Early issues of Max Power are interesting, Fast Car used to be great. They had their own magazine project cars including a Mk1 Cavalier and a MK5 Cortina... I never read Revs. Too focued on newer cars at the time.
There was a short lived mag in the 1980s called Street Rod & Machine Monthley. They are worth digging out if you find them, more focused on rods and customs than either SM or CC were (which were always a bit more diverse back then, CC used to feature DeTomasos and what not even for a while). I think it kind of took over from Rod & Custom UK which as said was good but I never could find it when it was current.
A good mag from the continent was Chrome Und Flamen which may still be in print, dunno, used to cover the ESRA scene well though. Lots of mad Swedes and Germans and the like.
There were several titles called Retro something from the 90s onwards. I forget which was which but there were at least three.
I enjoyed Popular Classics when it was current, Nick Larkin was nuts, I met him a few times, superb eccentric guy. I also remember Restoring Classic Cars. And Your Classic was another I read every issue back then.
I never took to Jallopy. There was another A5 mag which was much more "Classic" but budget orientated I think from the same publisher? What the heck was that called. That was a cracking good read.
Back issues of Hot Rod and Car Craft and Rod & Custom are always worth picking up too. I really liked Custom Rodder but thats gone out of print a couple of years ago.
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Popular Classics, Forgot about that. Along with CCC and SM this was my stable reading material at school. Really good magazine and that i wished i never got rid off.
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