Classic Car Mags

mike65

Useful or just 'handy' for browsing. Are they in fact a good way of sating the appetite and so stop you spending real money on car?

Which ones do you buy and how often? I occassional pick one up and have no preferences beyond appararent value for money (ie thicker the better) and preferably one with loads of display ads.

Mike

Dades

I always liked Classic & Sports Car. It's just that bit thicker than Classic Cars!
Buy it most months.

The Irish mag, good as I'm sure it is, doesn't float my boat at all. I prefer to ogle cars I'll probably never have tbh.

carchaeologist

I usually read Practical classics mainly,classic car mart,irish vintage scene,heritage commercial,and classic van and pickup now and again..oh yeah,classic ford sometimes too,usually whatevers there,its cheaper than smoking!!!:D

DarenO

Volksworld and Irish Vintage Scene are the only two i buy regular, oh and old copies of Motoring Life

Darren

TigerTim

Practical Classics, Irish Vintage & occasionally Classic Ford to drool & dream.

T

Silvera

Irish Vintage Scene (regularly)
Classic & Sports Car (odd time)
Classic Monthly (twice)
Practical Classics (now and again)
Classic Plant & Machinery (used to purchase regularly... father worked on Hy-Macs and Draglines all his life)
Vintage Tractor & Machinery (now and again)

Hifive

I have literally hundreds of classic mags in the attic. I went up there today, (hiding kids old toys:)) and spent a happy hour reading about BMW 3.0 csi coupes.
I've been buying the Classic cars magazine for years, and occasionally, Classic and sports car, Practical classic or, Classic cars for sale.
Occasionally I'll get a gra for an old Beemer, or a 928, or a merc 111, or some other totally impractical old bus, and head up to the attic to gen up on the model.

Arthur Daley

Hifive wrote: »

I have literally hundreds of classic mags in the attic. I went up there today, (hiding kids old toys:)) and spent a happy hour reading about BMW 3.0 csi coupes.
I've been buying the Classic cars magazine for years, and occasionally, Classic and sports car, Practical classic or, Classic cars for sale.
Occasionally I'll get a gra for an old Beemer, or a 928, or a merc 111, or some other totally impractical old bus, and head up to the attic to gen up on the model.

I'm buying pratical classics every month now it seems. It has become a better production and more mainstream in the last few years. When I started buying it about 6 years ago I found it strange how passionate somebody out there can be about, say a 1978 Chrysler Avenger, but now I appreciate it all more. I hoard all my magazines and love the idea of spending a few hours on some rainy afternoon in twenty years time trawling through my collection.

I'd buy Classic & Sports car occasionally but have always felt it appealed to a different economic bracket, if you know what I mean. Especially when you look at some of the auctions in it.

Capri

I have literally hundreds of classic mags in the attic.

What's that creaking noise over your bed ? :eek:

Used to have tons of them, got rid of them to an Autojumbler, now just go into Easons / Reads and flick thru them. If theres anything interesting I make a note and print it off the internet .:)

Blue850

I've hundreds of them incl a nearly full set of Practical Classics back to 1980
I get Irish Vintage Scene, Classics Monthly,Practical Classics,Classic and Sportscar every month. Occasionally Mecedes Enthusiast, and my brothers get the Mini mags and Ford mags every month so I get a read out of them too. I buy old Motoring Lifes at autojumbles too and the oldest mag I have is a Morris Owners from the 30's with a printing error ,1/2 the pages are upside down! Not sure what year,same year as the Morris 8 was launched, I'll have to dig it out .

carchaeologist

I have some motor magazines from the mid 30s,picked them up for a euro each at an autojumble a few years back,they make interesting reading!!

Porno for petrolheads!!:P:P

biggus

Retro Cars is re- released and well written .

I Would only buy classic car mags depending on content, i don't want to read about old MGs

carchaeologist

biggus wrote: »

Retro Cars is re- released and well written .

I Would only buy classic car mags depending on content, i don't want to read about old MGs

Yes,not knocking the cars,but there seems to be alot of morris minors and MGBS in alot of them.
Thats why i like retro cars,they have unusual cars in the mag.

maidhc

I buy Practical Classics and sometimes Classic Tractor is there is a feature on something by uncle Henry.

DarenO

Blue850 wrote: »

I buy old Motoring Lifes at autojumbles too

I take it you are the lad from Galway that David Sykes was telling me about, how big is your collection of Motoring Life. i'm thinking of getting a scanner and making mine available for public consumption not sure how long the project would take, mine range from '55 to '76

if you come across ones that you have already and i don't maybe you could let me know, they're harder and harder to get now

i also have 3 rare issues of Auto-Drive an Irish mag from the sixties that didn't last

Darren

carchaeologist

DarenO wrote: »

they're harder and harder to get now

Very true,a great magazine it was too,i have a few 80s editions(the new 1984 opel kadett etc) its good to read a magazine that was irish based back then.

Blue850

I have about 80 or so issues from mid 50s to late 70s, only one duplicate. I haven't gone through them all yet

gfwd

I've been buying Practical Classics religiously for years and Popular Classics before that. It's not as good as it was but it's still the best I think. I still buy Triumph World but it's not the greatest since it went monthly and the editor (Ted Connolly) is probably the worst writer there is! I buy Irish Vintage Scene regularly, despite the tractors and Ford bias. It's good to have an Irish magazine and it's well put together.

I've also got some old Motoring Life from the sixties. Great to read, especially since most of the cars in it were assembled here at the time.
DarenO, be careful about making your collection available as ML is still going strong (copyright blah blah etc).

G Luxel

I bought some from around the world. Motor Klassik is good if u understand german but i like the pictures and some of the cars are completely unknown. I also picked up for 70cent a copy of the polish Auto Express but it had a 2 page info with pictures of a ZAZ 968 which looks like an NSU.
A good magazine Ive found is Vintage Roadscene, crammed with period pics of cars, trucks, lorries and very good information.

DarenO

Just updated my records

Between January 1958 and December 1969 i'm missing 21 Motoring Life magazines

I've 129 in total between 1955 and 1976, don't get me started on AA memorabilia

Darren

carchaeologist

DarenO wrote: »

Just updated my records

Between January 1958 and December 1969 i'm missing 21 Motoring Life magazines

I've 129 in total between 1955 and 1976, don't get me started on AA memorabilia

Darren

We all have our thing,i have a load of old handbooks,oldest is a 1946 hillman minx:)

carchaeologist

gfwd wrote: »

editor (Ted Connolly) is probably the worst writer there is!

Yes,his writing style is ropey to say the least!!

Bring back popular classics mag,who remembers that!!!I used to love it!!!

Blue850

anyone got copies of Jalopy? Cheapest produced mag ever made, featuring Skoda the scrapyard dog:D

8~)

Jalopy was my most favourite one of all. I have a few copies; I remember when I first stumbled across it at a newsagents and thought it was a joke or supplement to another more mainstream mag.

I have boxes of other mags as well; everything from a few 50s mags to 80s Opel brochures to last month's Mercedes club's Gazette. I don't buy as many as I used to because I hoard and the place would become a fire hazard.

spidersonmars

I get practical classics every month. I like retro cars also. My classic car bug was picked up due to the fact that my father and then later my brother bought "Car" magazine every month since the late 60's. It is by far the best magazine about classics (now rather than then obviously) does anyone remember J K Setright? In my humble opinion the best motor jornalist by far. I fell in love with cars well before I could drive, because of the way he and other wrote.

Blue850

first magazine I bought was CAR in June or July 85, with a Ferrari 288GTO on the cover, that was a great magazine in th 80s and early 90s

carchaeologist

spidersonmars wrote: »

does anyone remember J K Setright? In my humble opinion the best motor jornalist by far.

Yes,a legend,he died a few years back afaik?