Classic Car Magazines

GrimV8

GrimV8

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Having seen the likes of big mags like Street Machine vanish and I even hear Max Power is on its last issue, I wondered what mags people rate on here for their classic fix. :)

What do you read?
 
Practical Classics all the way!
It's the perfect blend of really top-end motoring journalism with their featured cars, and down and dirty tech advice in their other sections. A great read!
 
I spend far too much buying car magazines. I almost always buy classic cars weekly, Practical classics, and classic cars. I also buy auto car and the Mercedes Enthusiast, virtually every issue. I sometimes buy classics monthly and classic and sports car, but not that often.
 
Classic car weekly, Hemmings Classic Car (but that's all American classics) and Motor Trend, (again American). I might start buying Practical Classics now I'm back with a British marque as I've popped in and out of it since it started.
 
I have been collecting Classic car mags for years now. I buy 'Practical Classics' and 'Classics monthly' as they deal mostly with the sort of stuff I like. 'Thoroughbred & Classic cars' and 'Classics and Sportscar' I only buy when they have a P6 article as they mostly deal in high end exotica that I am never going to own.
The good thing about British classic car mags is that they pretty much all focus on '50s to '70s cars and have done since the early '80s so you can have just as much fun buying old back issues from 2nd hand shops. On that basis, 'Popular classics' was an excellent read from 1989-96 and 'Your Classic' 1989-94 was edited by a serious P6 enthusiast for at least part of it's run so there are lots of good articles there. I have also been buying a few selected old issues of 'Autocar' and 'Motor' which have been quite entertaining.
 
"Old Cars Newspaper" ( Iola, Wisconsin ) used to literally be a weekly newspaper + I subscribed for decades; ( had ) better editorials than "Hemmings Motor News" + been around almost as long. Not what it once was, unfortunately. But in the 70's + 80's the best motoring journalism in print ( apart from LJK Setright )
+ "CAR" Magazine, Japan which covers classic cars quite well

http://www.hemmings.com

http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/GeneralMenu/

+favorite from the 70's ( now defunct ) "Custom Car" ( a UK Link House publication; same publisher as "Cars + Car Conversions", now also gone )

"Custom Car" featured many of the UK's best hotrods with tongue-in-cheek editorials that would start like "Vauxhall this then? " + "Cresta-va-wave", "Practice makes Prefect", etc. Funny stuff...

GW
 
Got a sub to practical classics. I dip in and out of the others depending on whats on the front cover usually!

Rich.
 
mine is practical classics , been reading it for years, and i was going to buy a triumph dolomite or p6 as my classic car , but after i followed the p6 revamp in it i decided that the p6 was for me and im glad i did.
but i should have looked more carefully and spent a bit more before i purchased.
but im happy
regards
marcus
 
So generally it's Classic Car weekly and Practical Classics for the UK readers.
I'm keen on these as they cover various marques as although I'm into certain cars I feel 'X' amount of pages of just one theme gets too much for me :roll:

Lots have gone by the wayside it would seem, possibly due to T'internet forums showing us so much at a glance :|

Nice to see I'm not the only Old Schooler who still reads a bit of print :wink:

Glad to see you back in P6 ownership Marcus, reckon the bug has got you :wink:
 
Yer Practical Classics is good although they do make some odd typos. And sometimes the odd issue can be a little weak. I also get Practical Sports bikes, although I don't own a 'classic' sports bike the journalism is more grown up, some of the bike mags aimed at my bike just go on and on about doing wheelies and getting the perfect fast line on the local A roads as well as reviewing the latest new bike. Little on fixing / looking after your bike, which is odd as bike owners are more likely to do their own maintenance.
 
rockdemon said:
Got a sub to practical classics. I dip in and out of the others depending on whats on the front cover usually!

Rich.
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Same here. I do like 'Thoroughbred & Classic cars' and 'Classic and Sportscar' just because they have the high-end exotica (with occasional bread & butter machinery), but usually scan them in the motorway services when I'm on break as they're a little pricey albeit a very good read with lovely photography.
 
Hi thanks for welcome back i have got the bug and cant wait for summer, ive got rosie which i sold and then got back , but it never left my garage lol , also the white rover which as been away now 1 and half years , it went for a 3 mth to have respray , will i ever see it again :roll: , and im looking at av8 next week, i got credit crunched realy badly and now on the road to recovery.
and its great to be back
regards
marcus
 
I can't see the attraction of Practical Classics. They just seem to review fairly mundane or ordinary cars and show workshop articles about fixing cars I don't own - am I missing something?

I read Classic Cars and occasionally Octane because they usually feature interesting and rare cars - stuff that you'd buy if you won the lottery - along with articles about the people behind the companies, I guess it's a form of escapism.
 
testrider said:
I can't see the attraction of Practical Classics. They just seem to review fairly mundane or ordinary cars and show workshop articles about fixing cars I don't own - am I missing something?
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Hmmmm probably not

I subscribe to PC and Classics Monthly and after about 18 months the articles do tend to be about the same things. They have both done very useful articles on how to set up a mig welder though - might find them useful :wink:

I enjoy reading about the restoration projects most. Good motivation (if I needed any) to get back out to the garage and crack on :D

Dave
 
If you've been reading Practical Classics for years - you'll notice it's not as good as it was and most of the cars they feature have been covered before
 
Classic and Sports Car for the widest coverage.
Classic Bike - one of the only automotive mags that's funny as well as well-written.
Nothing has ever bettered Supercar and Classics back in the 80's and 90's. Wonderful.
 
Magazines

When I was a kid, I spent soooo much money on magazines, I reckon I've spent thousands of dollars. I've probably spent enough to buy myself something decent - car or bike wise!

I used to buy

Aussie titles:
Hot 4s
Fast Fours & rotaries
Street Machine
Motor (occasionally)
Wheels (occasionally)
Australian Muscle Car magazine

Pommie:
Evo
Octane
Practical Classics
Thoroughbred and blah blah
Performance Car (before it went under)
Redline (gimme a break, I had male hormones)
Maxpower (see above)
and the odd bike magazine

Yank:
Muscle Car Review
Car and Driver
Motor Trend (occassionally)
any other magazine with 60's/70's muscle cars, usually mustang, shelby stuff or Mopar Action, Mopar monthly.
Hot Rod
Car Craft

I cut down to Hemmings Muscle Car after I found my first copy in London and loved it, I now subscribe to that, Muscle Car Review and Motor Trend Classic. Motor Trend Classic will get the chop as Primedia's service is crap. I also buy Hot Rod Deluxe when I can find it at a newsagent.

I'd buy Practical Classics again now that I have the Rover, but frankly, I'm kinda over reading the same old stories about cars etc. I like reading about restorations or how people adapted bits if nothing was available etc. I still have hundreds of magazines tucked away in storage (hopefully not destroyed after Melbourne's torrential rain) but I gave away boxes and boxes of them to a friendly car bookshop guy as I figured that I'd lost interest in many of the titles and he'd make more use of them than I would.

Although... I do leave anything with a TR4a on the cover at my Dad's house. :LOL:
 
yup!
practical classics for me!
i like their product tests for every product claims to be terrific but is it?
although i did buy some highly expensive chrome cleaner once that was the spitting image of brasso!
smell, colour everything!
just 10 times the price!
 
It's PC for me as well I think. Started buying it in 1993 when i was 14 and have every copy since! Stuffed into various spaces in the workshop along with all the issues of popular classics printed after that date as well as a lot of other titles. Must have hundreds of magazines now!First got interested in P6s after seeing a 3500 in one of the early issues I bought.
Regards,
Dave
 
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