To those that have had their cars in magazines, PLEASE do not take this the wrong way....
I grew up reading magazines. To me, they were my connection to cars, trucks and 4 wheel drives long before some idiot claimed to invent the internet.
Who remembers Four Wheeler ? Here is an obscure one...Pickup, Van and 4WD !I actually subscribed to those from the late 70s into the early 80s.
I was a subscriber to Car Craft. Mopar Muscle, Mopar Action and even Mopar Collectors Guide.
Before I built my red Charger, I'd looked at hundreds of cars and trucks in these magazines. In the pictures, they all looked perfect. I'm talking flawless to the point where it set the bar really high for me when I was working on my own car. I paid close attention to all of the Mopars featured in the magazines and really aimed to meet the quality that I'd seen in print.
The paintwork was done, the car was looking great but there were a few tiny flaws that I could see. It bummed me out a little bit until....
I started seeing some of the cars that were in the magazines. They also had tiny flaws just like mine. Some you had to really look to see but only a few were so flawless that I couldn't find anything wrong.
It was liberating. It didn't mean that I would never try to do the best that I could, just that by obsessing over small flaws is pointless.