Goodbye Hot Rod Magazine?

[Matt Bacon]

1 hour ago, Bugatti Fan said:

my old pre internet copies of Scale Modelling magazines to browse through along with a nice glass of Talisker Whisky !

I picked up 3 years of Scale Auto Modeller 1998-2001 for £16 from eBay a few months back. Given how many kits I have that were “new” in those years, or at least recent, it’s a real treasure trove of guidance and inspiration… as is the Bruichladdach, of course…

best,

M.

Edited July 12, 2024 by Matt Bacon

[Ace-Garageguy]

8 hours ago, Bugatti Fan said:

I think that I will get my Cyberdyne Systems 100 to dig out some of my old pre internet copies of Scale Modelling magazines to browse through along with a nice glass of Talisker Whisky !

Ah...Talisker...nice.   

[Richard Bartrop]

19 hours ago, rattle can man said:

I will keep my collection of old magazines and books. They are correct about how to do something more often than the internet. 

 

 

To say that the internet, and social media in particular, is as accurate as a two dollar watch would be a gross insult to the low priced timepiece industry.

[Ace-Garageguy]

20 hours ago, Richard Bartrop said:

It should be pretty obvious to anyone who's spent any time online that anything is there only as long as somebody wants to keep it there, so if you do find something useful, you'd better save it to your own machine while you can.  That anyone can post to the internet is simultaneously the best and the worst thing about it, as people either through ignorance or outright malice seem determined to bury us in baloney. 

Absolutely. Tons of really useful historical data has just gone away over the last two decades.

And with Google's continuing policy to either steer you to something to BUY so they get their little referral cut, or to put their spin on any results (rather than just displaying RELEVANT but NEUTRAL results to any query) the usefulness of it and any search engine based on it (which is most of 'em) deteriorates daily.

[Bugatti Fan]

At least the targeted ads in paper magazines don't keep popping up in front of what you are trying to read !

[stitchdup]

10 minutes ago, Bugatti Fan said:

At least the targeted ads in paper magazines don't keep popping up in front of what you are trying to read !

or the free recycling/stair lift/stena line cruise ads that fall out every time you pick up a mag. under every british doormat is a stena stair lift ad

[NYLIBUD]

I never even noticed,but yea that sucks.They recently had a great issue devoted to the whole Pro street movement.Always liked the Pro Street cars.Anything tubbed and slammed.And to add,I think it sucks how so many great magazines have bit the dust,so to speak.JP Jeep,Muscle car Review,Popular Hot Rodding,Car Craft.Four wheeler,4 Wheel and Off Road,Off Road.SUV,and the list goes on.???They’re all gone.Arrrggg!!!!

[Richard Bartrop]

It does turn out that even Facebook isn't a complete waste of time.  Rik Hoving has been posting colour photos from the 1948 LA Roadster Show, and the first Oakland National Roadster Show.

https://www.facebook.com/Rik.Hoving.Kustoms

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 7/11/2024 at 10:25 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

It wouldn't even take all that.

A civilization that's entirely dependent on relatively vulnerable technology is just a few pull-the-plug events away from being no civilization at all.

Hmmmmmm...seems like I remember a little glitch in the system a few days back.

Anybody ever hear of CrowdStrike?

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