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Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN
Its a sign of the times. Us dinosaures are about to become extinct. The magazines you mentioned havent had anything in them worth reading for about 25 years.
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With rare exceptions, X-Tech Man, you hit the nail right on the head!! I can't recall last time I bought an issue of CC, HR or PHR magazine. Okay, I do....it was sometime back in the early/mid-1990s but only 'cause it had a rare Hemi Mopar featured or some resto article, but even back then it was a
very rare occurance for I stopped buying Car Craft on a regular basis in 1985 and PHR and Hot Rod a couple of years (or so) earlier. I believe SS/DI was gone after 1996 so that was the last time I purchased it but only
after checking out its table of contents.
Man, I remember those misspent, car-crazed daze of my youth when I couldn't wait for next month's issue of Car Car, Hot Rod, Popular Hot Rodding, Super Stock & Drag Illustrated, High Performance Cars, Rodder & Super/Stock and Speed & Supercar (or some special issue put out by one of the aforementioned) to arrive at my local newsstand, all of which I'd buy without thumbing through the issue first or checking out its table of contents to see if anything worthwhile (read: cool!) was contained therein. I just parted with my 50 or 75 cents and went on my merry way anxious to get home and start reading every word and checking out every picture on every page including the really cool ads that were once the norm.
That was
really a great time...
M68