Anyone here still read car magazines?

[EdontheBeach]

I subscibe to various mags, I have for years and years, it's the tacit feel of having it in my hands and in front of my face. Over the last few years I decided to pare it all down, now the only subscription I don't let lapse is Super Chevy.

Here's the thing, when I let one go usually within a few months I get an envelope 'SPECIAL OFFER' - I can renew my subscription for a peanut butter sandwich and half a glass of milk. When it's that cheap, I take it. I renewed Hot Rod at $20 for 3yrs.

 

[ed1948]

My Mother bought me my first two car mags when I was sick in 63 or 64. I still have them somewhere. Started buying Hot Rod, Car Craft, Car and Driver, Road and Track and various others including Mechanix Illustrated religiously from 70 to mid 90's. I kept them until I sold a half dozen boxes of them about 5 years ago. Took a while to find a buyer(strong enough to carry all the boxes). I just bought a magazine 2 weeks ago and, wow, talk about downsizing and up pricing.

 

[popeye1978]

This morning at the grocery store I leafed through the issue of Musclecar Review OP mentioned ... the article was a run-down of '80s muscle, a picture of 15-20 different cars with a long paragraph on each. I read the blurb on a few of the cars and the facts & opinions stated were pretty fair, but the tone .... the article was written from an angle that Gen Xers have different taste in musclecars so "watch-out Baby Boomers!", but with how some things were phrased and a "recommended cassette soundtrack" suggestion with each car, I got the feeling the author(s) were intentionally toeing the line of being insulting, ala "you like an '86 Monte Carlo instead of a '67 Chevelle? how cuuuuuute!" ... but I'm not a regular reader & this was a perusal, so my criticism may be unwarranted

 

[ed1948]

I don't know if it's been talked about before but I find it much easier to hold a magazine rather than a laptop computer, while I'm on the can.
( 9 years remission from stage III Colorectal c***** - my digestive system suffered damage and means I get a lot of reading done)

 

[Longroof79]

I have purged many issues over the years. I wish still had some of the ones that I started reading as a kid. I bought my first Hot Rod back in '59. I had the small page issues of Car Craft, Rod & Custom, Custom Rodder, etc....wish I still had them today. I'm sure if I hadn't purged issues over the years, I'm sure I would've been inundated...between Hot VW's, VW & Porsche, Car Craft, Street Rodder, Hemmings Motor News, Hot Boat...etc.. etc.

 

[Bar50]

I just like that in the magazines, Hot Rod for one, would show the cover from 20, 40, and 60 years ago. I am starting to be old enough to cover two of them....

When I used to give rides in the ambulance for a living, I had tons of magazine subscriptions to have fresh stuff to read. I also dig, to this day, paper catalogs, pictures, for reference or to lust after.

 

[rwd_pete]

I just like that in the magazines, Hot Rod for one, would show the cover from 20, 40, and 60 years ago. I am starting to be old enough to cover two of them....

When I used to give rides in the ambulance for a living, I had tons of magazine subscriptions to have fresh stuff to read. I also dig, to this day, paper catalogs, pictures, for reference or to lust after.

Like others, my magazine co

 

[rwd_pete]

Like others, my magazine collection goes back to the 60's. Good reference material, and tough to through out. I decided a year ago to opt for the digital renewal on Car Craft. $10 a year, $15 for 2 years. Not as handy as a paper copy, but I don't have to worry about space for storing them forever. My daughter gave me Hot Rod for Christmas this year. $10. You get a Zinio phone app or can read it on a PC. I was thinking about getting a tablet to read them easier. Lots of used tablets in the classified. for cheap.
On the up side I can read Car Craft on my phone while waiting for my wife somewhere, or waiting for a pizza. They have a text feature at the bottom so you can just read the article around the pictures and then switch back to page look.