Magazine cars. How many on the forum?

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Back in 2004 I was at a Mopar show in Atlanta and Galen Govier asked one of the publishers of one of the magazines to check out my car. The publisher came by and he took multiple photos of my car and my phone number. He was then going to call me to get the details on my car. 10 or more years go by them nothing then a few years ago a friend of mine contacted me and said that a picture of my car is in a magazine and since the publisher lost the information they were trying to get in contact with the owner. I stopped getting the magazine years ago and was never interested in contacting them since the publisher seemed like he really wasn’t interested in the car at the time.
 
Does a Swedish Magazine count?
Wheels Rod & Classic April 1980.
Text and Photo Mats Juhlin.
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The closest I came was getting my car into the readers rides section. The guy I sold the car to must have mailed the pics in :) I have the magazine somewhere.
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Way back about 1997 or 8 maybe, back in N Mo. I bought a 68 GTX off a guy, he got it from the builder (mechanic) that came to St. Joe from Ca. The car had been written up in Car Craft I think it was. It was a 440 car with max wedge top end, silver with maroon/red interior. Super nice car. I pulled the maxie stuff off and sold all that, changed that high stalll convertor and put it all back original. I kept it about a year and sold it. I don't have the article.
 
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.
 
Kern Dog said:
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.
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I would much rather have one really nice driver quality car than a garage full of trailer queens. I don't want something that I can't drive and enjoy. I'm not going to worry about a small chip in the paint or a few bugs splattered against the radiator.
 
missing linc said:
I would much rather have one really nice driver quality car than a garage full of trailer queens. I don't want something that I can't drive and enjoy. I'm not going to worry about a small chip in the paint or a few bugs splattered against the radiator.
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Just because a car is in a magazine doesn’t mean you trailer it everywhere. Not at all, Three of my cars are in magazines and yes I’m proud of the way I built my cars to get to that standard of a build. I build every car to drive, He’ll I had to build my convertible so my wife could drive it. Auto , power steering and power brakes. No I don’t take them out in raining days or drive in the winter but summer time they get bugs washed off as much as our daily drivers. They were built to drive in the first place, why stop now.
 
Kern Dog said:
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.
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In the pictures, they all looked perfect

...this is the point, pictures - 50 times smaller than the real car...

It is much easier to look perfect on some fotos as in the real world.
For me the cars in the magazines were often interesting, inspiring, but I had always in mind, that fotographs are only fotographs.
 
hemifiedbird said:
Just because a car is in a magazine doesn’t mean you trailer it everywhere. Not at all, Three of my cars are in magazines and yes I’m proud of the way I built my cars to get to that standard of a build. I build every car to drive, He’ll I had to build my convertible so my wife could drive it. Auto , power steering and power brakes. No I don’t take them out in raining days or drive in the winter but summer time they get bugs washed off as much as our daily drivers. They were built to drive in the first place, why stop now.
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In no way did I mean to imply that magazine cars don't get driven, rather I was referring to the point that a few flaws are not worth stressing about. I would love to see your cars and with a little bit of luck I might get the chance one day. We share the same attitude that they were built to be driven.
 
Case in point, while my 1970 Dart was not in any magazines, it got plenty of attention and appreciation, but I built it to drive, and it was. Went from Winnipeg to Kissimmee Florida on the Hot Rod Power Tour in 2005, one of the best vacations ever!
 
I will say this...our old classic car hobby covers every end of the spectrum, every income level, every model and submodel, everyskill level, every automotive desire. What matters in the end, is what makes each individual hobbiest happy! He (she) is the one spending the $, or maybe doing all the work.
 
I’m gonna go vintage here and post a pic of my Grandpa Sam Carnell’s ride in Popular Hot Rodding magazine. Oh, the fun we had back then!

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