Which Classic Magazine Subscription ??

MercMad

Okay folks, not seen this discussed here before, but since there is a miriad of Classic mags out there I wondered what folks read regularly and what is recommended.

My subscription to Classic Cars runs out with the January issue and I'm a little tired of it. It's a good mag but the layout bores me. I have subscribed to it for 4 years now and bought regularly before that but I'm at the stage that if I get it any longer I'll start to feel that I cant break the collection !

Having just moved 40 years of Golf magazines last week when my parents moved house I dont want that !

I also subscribe to Merc Enthusiast (surprise surprise) and get our Mercedes Club's excellent award winning Gazette but which classic mag should I go for ?

Paul (MN)

I subscribe to Practical Classics. I'm not expert on cars and I enjoy looking at the pics and reading the thing in general but I sometimes feel that it's a bit of a quick read and they always seem to have a good number of "corrections" in it which means they don't have a clue what they are talking about. For instance in the last issue there was a whole article on taking the dash off a SAAB 900 only to find the fault was something else which was commonknowledge among SAAB owners. They could have reduced that article to 1 paragraph!!

I don't know if I will continue to subscribe to it either.

I am looking forward to seeing the pictures or their Orange Matra or whatever it is.

franksm

I like "Classic & Sports Car" although it is more full of adverts than the others.

A good magazine is "Car Mechanics" - not classic per se, but very interesting to read if you're in any way a DIYer.

http://www.carmechanicsmag.co.uk/

Dades

I'm also a fan of Classic & Sports Car (last months Dino issue - mmmm).

Classic Car mag never did it for me, and I wouldn't buy Pracitical Classics unless there was something relevant in it.

C&SC would be one I'd get.

junkyard

I also think Classic and Sportscar is probably the best magazine, 2nd place goes to Classic Cars as I've been buying it since it came out. Classic car weekly is O.K. too if you want to keep up with the market in the U.K. Classic trader in Holland is O.K. (you can also see this online)

BrianD3

I think Classic Cars and C&SC are much of a muchness with C&SC being slightly glossier and having more emphasis on exotic stuff. Practical Classics is very different but reading all that practical stuff can be boring sometimes, sometimes you just want to read about the cars not how to fix them. There are one or two other mags, one's just called "Classics" I believe. I bought it once or twice and it wasn't bad. Ther's also some more specialist mags like Classic American which I have bought a few times.

I no longer buy any mags as I think they've gotten too dear. My favourite mag that I used to buy was Popular Classics. A good mix of practical stuff, anecdotes, humour, nostalgia, family cars, semi exotic cars. Another great read was Jalopy magazine, now that was good fun

MercMad

Yeah I buy Classic American the odd time if something catches my eye. Same goes for the others like Octane, which is pretty good too, but a bit too much advertising !

The Practical Classics type thing aren't bad but not enough reading material and I dont really want to know how to fix XYZ car, if I did I'd buy the Haynes manual and go fix the car myself. In fact speaking of Haynes...........has anyone else discovered how consistently innacurate these things are ?

manta mad

everybodys different i suppose, but practical classics to me is the best of the bunch.
its more down to earth with affordable cars that the regular joe soap
would have:)



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