Anyone here still read car magazines?

[Jeff L]

Haha! man, i remember thumbing through those and seeing all the scantly clad women...felt like i wasnt supposed to be looking at them but it made me excited about cars...and women haha but i was reading them for the VW's!! i swear..haha I was very much into those magazines, i would sit and read them for hours! Nowadays they don't have so much of the bikini girls in them anymore so they lost their appeal to me..hahaha just kidding

Back in the 80's there was a magazine called Autobuff. Needless to say that some clothing on the ladies standing next to the cars was optional. Seriously, I only bought it for the cars.... yeah right! lol

 

[565bbchevy]

I still get Chevy High Perf. and Super Chevy and still getting most likely my final issues of Hot Rod and Car Craft.
Always been great reading material for the bathroom.

 

[MrSony]

I've thought long and hard about getting a subscription to hotrod/car craft, but i never have. if i see a cover that peaks my interest ill pick that issue up.

 

[buick7332]

I've thought long and hard about getting a subscription to hotrod/car craft, but i never have. if i see a cover that peaks my interest ill pick that issue up.

Do they still print high performance pontiac magazine? I used to buy it in the 80's.

 

[motorheadmike]

Most of the articles for Car Craft and Hot Rod are posted online 6 months before they show up in the magazine:

Car Craft

Hot Rod

I enjoy reading them and keeping them for reference, but my wife doesn't. At all.

And that really annoys me as a paying subscriber. I'd be fine if they came out online 6 months after; makes a great resource really.

I love reading magazines and drinking coffee on Sunday morning, it is my zen moment.

 

[MrSony]

Do they still print high performance pontiac magazine? I used to buy it in the 80's.

Haven't really looked, but I would've picked one up if I saw one. Shame there isn't that many BOP only magazines.

 

[UNGN]

Do they still print high performance pontiac magazine? I used to buy it in the 80's.

No, Petersen closed them down. My 2+2 was supposed to be in HPP in 2014, but the magazine was closed down. A year later Car Craft bought the HPP article and published it.

 

[popeye1978]

Have a subscription to Hemmings Classic Car ... the staff is trying to feature more '70s / '80s / '90s cars -- because of the 25 years old rule -- but have to deal with some readers who believe that "classic" is Pre-WWII, a Tri-Five Chevy, or a '60s muscle car, and that's IT. My local paper stopped going to press so the magazine is now my reading at work when my computer is booting-up and whenever I end-up eating lunch alone

A few years ago I tried membership/subscription to the Antique Truck Historical Society -- awesome quarterly magazine about old commercial trucks -- but they pissed me off in not updating their website with current fees

Used to read:

• Motor Trend Classic (the first iteration, 2005/2006) until it was discontinued, I think because the editors went over budget with a feature / photo shoot in Palm Springs
  
• Motor Trend but cancelled it when I got tired of reading the same kind of reviews every month and then saw they were recycling columns from MT Classic
• Car and Driver but cancelled when I decided the articles weren't any better than MT and though readership was asking them not to -- they published three of the Letters to the Editor about it in two consecutive issues -- the staff was injecting politics (this was 2012) into every story

I also have subscriptions to non-car magazines so I am never lacking something to read, I prefer them in paper as I spend too much time at a screen as it is

 

[clean8485]

Glad to see and hear that people still like to read about cars on paper. I enjoy Hemmings Muscle Machines and Musclecar Review. I enjoy reading the barn find car stories in Musclecar Review. I have a large collection of various titles going back about 30-35 years anyway. Going to have to thin out my collection before we move to a new home.

 

[pagrunt]

I get Hemmings Muscle Machines, Car Craft, & Muscle Car Review. I have had Hot Rod on & off since 1988. I do miss how the articles used to be in all gear head mags. Now they don't seem to be as diverse. With it seems like most mags being published by one company, each one has a specific subject theme.