Whats up with Musclecar Enthusiast magazine, geez!

[Salvatore]

I believe you guys have enough info and people to start your own Magazine about Pure Stock Racing. I think the sport is big enough to maybe support a bi-monthly magazine.

[HEMIBEE]

It may be a perect time for Tom Shaw to step up and offer some more T-shirts and 2 year subscriptions to a magazine that doesn't exist!!! LOL!!!! I was unaware MCR was monthly now but I will suscribe to it now that I know, Rich

[TDW]

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It may be a perect time for Tom Shaw to step up and offer some more T-shirts and 2 year subscriptions to a magazine that doesn't exist!!! LOL!!!! I was unaware MCR was monthly now but I will suscribe to it now that I know, Rich

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If I remember correctly, I sent the sub money and didn't even get the T-shirt!!

[Chevy454]

Be darn glad to only be out sub money fellas, some unfortunate few weren't so lucky...

[budnate]

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It may be a perect time for Tom Shaw to step up and offer some more T-shirts and 2 year subscriptions to a magazine that doesn't exist!!! LOL!!!! I was unaware MCR was monthly now but I will suscribe to it now that I know, Rich

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If I remember correctly, I sent the sub money and didn't even get the T-shirt!!

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yea what they said, got my dough to, fricken bozo.

[retengw31]

Me, too, Diego, but I have to agree that it takes more to keep one of these going. That's the quickest I've ever gone through a MCE cover to cover.

[bkhpah]

If you are going to devote the major meat of the MCE to the Pure Stock Drags, why not do a better job, by featuring the cars from the race, background on owners and cars, etc. The same old same old starting line pic's we have all seen before really don't do the event justice. And if you were not there, give me a reason to even care. Line after line of match-up's doesn't get it done at all. I cannot still get over one feature car! If I didn't subscribe, I would have NEVER bought this issue. Don't get me wrong, I love the Musclecars mags in general and our restorations and related articles have been featured in many magazines and we do appreciate it. I hope this doesn't signal a glimps of the future. If it does, ouch..BKH

[Xplantdad]

I agree wholeheartedly with Brian...it's way cooler to read about the people that own the cars...and the stories behind them (sort of like our Members Rides here). If you are going to cover an event...then do it right...top to bottom....not the typical "Here's the best paint award car" and "Here's the best engine award car". Devote more than 3 pages...and 40 pictures to an event. I know that you could have 10 pages easily from an event like the Supercar Reunion...some feature cars and the stories behind them...some racing shots and stories about the racers...some car show shots...and some people shots (auction, etc). Just don't do it halfway

That being said...Eric is right about the almighty dollar. When I worked at a major newspaper in SoCal...it was common knowledge that it cost 10 cents more per paper to make them than they sold for...so a 50 cent paper cost 60 cents to make! (Ink, paper, labor, electricity, transportation costs, etc.).

What made the newspaper the money was all of the advertising...and they bowed mightily to the heavy hitters.

On New Years Eve 2002...they had printed 750,000 papers only to have the "legal" department notice an "error" (read "bad press") in a news story that dealt with one of the major advertisers of the papers. Result? They reprinted all 750,000 papers...shredded the other ones...and paid all of the employees working that night (me included) triple time to get the "correct" papers out...


And so it goes...

[169indy]

'Now maybe if UNICEF got in the Muscle car mag Business.....'


I used to be a member of a Club called USCC pre internet and the mags were nice, and we all know how that ends,,,

Hemmings!

[442w30]

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Me, too, Diego, but I have to agree that it takes more to keep one of these going. That's the quickest I've ever gone through a MCE cover to cover.

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I *do* agree with you - even I had to flip through the magazine again to see if there was a feature I had missed. But I'd be willing to bet the lack of features was due to the amount of pages given to the race. I do think the editor screwed up in focusing on the match-ups too much without much photos. It would be nice to have them have an extension of the article on-line for those of us who want to see more photos. But if there's a problem with the magazine, I think we ought to give them a few issues and see what direction they are headed.

I also don't understand people's love for Hemmings. I think they have had some glaring errors with many articles.