Great car magazines that no longer exist

[smokingtyre]

Does anybody know what happened to Fast Lane magazine. As a kid I loved it, the exotic cars, the great photos with great locations.
Another one that disappeared was 'Carrera' I think it was quarterly.

Are there any other great old motoring mags that are no more?

[HeavySoul]

Fast Lane became Performance Car didn't it?

Fast Lane was the first car magazine I bought and is responsible for me spending thousands on them ever since.

RIP Fast Lane.

[Lord Pikey]

CCC

Car and Car Conversions i think...

[Trommel]

Fast Lane and Performance Car were separate.

Supercar Classics.

[chevykevv]

I loved Fast Lane, I used to buy it every Month, I even entered the competition to win the Mitsubushi Starion when I was about 17 I think.

I'd love to have got a quote for the insurance on that baby.

[Justayellowbadge]

Top Wheels.

Edited by Justayellowbadge on Friday 14th August 14:19

[HeavySoul]

Trommel said:

Fast Lane and Performance Car were separate.

Probably just my mis-memory then - I think when Fast Lane closed I must of switched to Performance Car.

[Gizmo!]

I used to read Fast Lane too.
They went through a phase of trying to set the 0-60 record with an F40 and then a massively-powered Caterham.

Now the Atom 300 and the Veyron are most of a second faster... mad.

[smokingtyre]

Lord Pikey said:

CCC

Car and Car Conversions i think...

I think it evolved into Practical Performance Car Magazine

[HeavySoul]

Gizmo! said:

I used to read Fast Lane too.
They went through a phase of trying to set the 0-60 record with an F40 and then a massively-powered Caterham.

Now the Atom 300 and the Veyron are most of a second faster... mad.

I remember that! I think it was a white Caterham from memory!

I was only a young boy when I started to buy Fast Lane and used to properly covert and cosset every new issue of Fast Lane like nothing else.

Looks like this thread is going to be sending me up into the loft later on to dig out my storage boxes!

[AdamW]

smokingtyre said:

Lord Pikey said:

CCC

Car and Car Conversions i think...

I think it evolved into Practical Performance Car Magazine

Nope, completely separate. PPC probably picked up a lot of CCC's old audience though.

[Streetrod]

"Street machine" and "Hotrod and Custom uk" were good mags if you were into the whole hotrod scene. Both died off years ago

[smokingtyre]

Justayellowbadge said:

Top Wheels.

Edited by Justayellowbadge on Friday 14th August 14:19

YES! how could I forget that one.

[The Black Flash]

Lord Pikey said:

CCC

Car and Car Conversions i think...

Sadly missed.
I picked up "track and race car" the other day, which was using the same title font and style, and said inside that they were trying to follow in ccc's footsteps.

I don't think PPC is anything to do with CCC? Usually a good read though.

[HeavySoul]

Justayellowbadge said:

Top Wheels.

Edited by Justayellowbadge on Friday 14th August 14:19

What a cover!!!

[Lord Croker]

+1 for Supercar Classics. It was such a great looking mag, as well as being so good to read.

[zakelwe]

Fast Lane was great.

I remember slotting the tape cassette of the cars including the F40 that went around Donnington and being in heaven. I think it was called Now Hear This, I still have the tape at home. There is a bit where in the F40 Mark Hales hits a damp patch which mean't the revs soared and the turbo suddenly woke up, classic to hear. They also did 911CS, quattro, Sierra Cosworth and other stuff.

Also what sticks in my memory is the dark green BBR Mogul Sierra Cosworth with 400bhp. As a young man I thought it was a the dogs bks ...

Regards
Andy

[williamp]

zakelwe said:

Fast Lane was great.

I remember slotting the tape cassette of the cars including the F40 that went around Donnington and being in heaven. I think it was called Now Hear This, I still have the tape at home. There is a bit where in the F40 Mark Hales hits a damp patch which mean't the revs soared and the turbo suddenly woke up, classic to hear. They also did 911CS, quattro, Sierra Cosworth and other stuff.

Also what sticks in my memory is the dark green BBR Mogul Sierra Cosworth with 400bhp. As a young man I thought it was a the dogs bks ...

Regards
Andy

they did another tape too, which had the Porsche 959, lambo Countach, Aston Vantage and Lister jaguar (XJS based), around Brands with Mark hales.

A great magazine! and possibly at its best in about 1990
As was performance car, another great magazine, with a young Jeremy clarkson
Also from the early 90s, Car Classics; they made about 7 editions, and I've got 2
Supercar classics from the late 80s
Superclassics from the mid 90s- a beautiful magzine, but it seemed they very quickly ran out of good cars to write about- they crammed so much quality into the first 5 editions. Worth getting hold of if you can find them

[Garlick]

Fast Lane had a front 3/4 shot of an Aston Vantage in what must have been the mid 80's. IIRC, It simply read 'Vantage' on the cover.

It was that cover/ article that cemented my love of the AM Vantage, and it remains strong to this day.

[zakelwe]

Everyone seemed to like Fast Lane, why did it stop? Peter Dron and Mark Hales were two very good writers. I remember a piece slamming caravaners that Peter did called Tortoise People which was a fantastic heading for what they do and how they do it. I always think of them like that to this day.

Regards
Andy