Magazine query
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Leading up to Christmas I saw a subscription offer for a UK print magazine called Car & Classic. At least I thought I did...because having not received a subscription I decided to buy it myself.
Nowhere can I find it again, assuming it does actually exist. Plenty with similar names but not that exact title.
Could PHers please help to confirm if there is such a publication? - or not?
Nowhere can I find it again, assuming it does actually exist. Plenty with similar names but not that exact title.
Could PHers please help to confirm if there is such a publication? - or not?
Yes, here is a link. I'm unsure if there is a physical magazine printed any more:
https://www.carandclassic.com/magazine/?_gl=1*1l4r...
https://www.carandclassic.com/magazine/?_gl=1*1l4r...
goldieandblackie said:
only old people who can't or won't change.
I love the printed page. I get Classic and Sports Car on subscription, and regularly buy odd issues of other classic car magazines if there is something I like the look of. Even still buy newspapers quite often. I spend far too long looking at other stuff on screens, and you can't beat the smell of ink on paper.
tog said:
I love the printed page. I get Classic and Sports Car on subscription, and regularly buy odd issues of other classic car magazines if there is something I like the look of. Even still buy newspapers quite often. I spend far too long looking at other stuff on screens, and you can't beat the smell of ink on paper.
I have a few subscriptions, always nice when they turn up - distraction away from the screens, comfy corner with a nice cuppa.
Maybe I'm old.
I tell you what surprises me still is the weekly paper ones still going. One’s called Classic Car News and the other Classic Car Weekly (I think). The magazines on offer have been decimated.
When I had my Stags many years ago I sometimes bought four magazines a month and the two paper ones every week. I ended up taking them all to the dump in the end, no one wanted them.
When I had my Stags many years ago I sometimes bought four magazines a month and the two paper ones every week. I ended up taking them all to the dump in the end, no one wanted them.
M138 said:
I tell you what surprises me still is the weekly paper ones still going. One s called Classic Car News and the other Classic Car Weekly (I think). The magazines on offer have been decimated.
When I had my Stags many years ago I sometimes bought four magazines a month and the two paper ones every week. I ended up taking them all to the dump in the end, no one wanted them.
As you say, no demand for old mags. A couple of years ago I took box loads to the local recycling centre - Motor Sport, Autocar, Practical Classics, Car, Fast Ford, Classic Ford, Custom Car, Street Machine, Hot Rod & Custom UK…and no doubt many more I’ve forgotten about. When I had my Stags many years ago I sometimes bought four magazines a month and the two paper ones every week. I ended up taking them all to the dump in the end, no one wanted them.
M138 said:
I tell you what surprises me still is the weekly paper ones still going. One s called Classic Car News and the other Classic Car Weekly (I think). The magazines on offer have been decimated.
When I had my Stags many years ago I sometimes bought four magazines a month and the two paper ones every week. I ended up taking them all to the dump in the end, no one wanted them.
Mmmm Classic Car Weekly - the same cars for sale week after week after week and tabloid style editorial . . .When I had my Stags many years ago I sometimes bought four magazines a month and the two paper ones every week. I ended up taking them all to the dump in the end, no one wanted them.
imho, of course . . .
goldieandblackie said:
Nobody really buys magazines or newspapers anymore, only old people who can't or won't change.
But to be fair the majority of time it’s older people who own classic cars.In the classic car boom of the late 80s there was a new magazine appearing every week it seemed but when the bubble burst by the early 90s they were gone. This current demise has been hit by the digital age and a shrinking bubble. (I use that term as it don’t seem quite severe as the early 90s)
restoman said:
M138 said:
I tell you what surprises me still is the weekly paper ones still going. One s called Classic Car News and the other Classic Car Weekly (I think). The magazines on offer have been decimated.
When I had my Stags many years ago I sometimes bought four magazines a month and the two paper ones every week. I ended up taking them all to the dump in the end, no one wanted them.
Mmmm Classic Car Weekly - the same cars for sale week after week after week and tabloid style editorial . . .When I had my Stags many years ago I sometimes bought four magazines a month and the two paper ones every week. I ended up taking them all to the dump in the end, no one wanted them.
imho, of course . . .
Edited by Lester H on Saturday 10th January 21:53
I used to subscribe to classic and sportscar, they sent me an email and paper promos to re subscribe, neither worked, so I let it lapse, I still get them on occasion along with. Octane, they make great reading at the cottage on weekends in summer.
I still also read actual physical books as well, and before anyone says fuddy duddy, I’m 53, so not that old!
I still also read actual physical books as well, and before anyone says fuddy duddy, I’m 53, so not that old!
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