Great car magazines that no longer exist

[hidetheelephants]

I was partial to 'Jalopy', later cursed by the controversial merger with 'Slowcar' to imaginatively become 'Jalopy featuring Slowcar'. A great read, and if you didn't like it you could recycle it as lavvy paper.

Editted for idiot spelling.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Sunday 16th August 23:27

[gog440]

T89 Callan said:

I really miss Retro Cars magazine.

I really like all sorts of cars so fanboy one make mags don't interest me and neither do articals about keeping the screw heads standard on a 1972 Morris Ital etc etc etc.

Retro Cars was basically exactly what I enjoy about tinkering with cars. Taking all sorts and making them faster/better/more fun and not taking things too seriously or becoming obsessive about one make.

ETA Holy st just done a search and it appears to be back!

Edited by T89 Callan on Friday 14th August 15:45

when did retro cars reappear? i really liked that mag

[DubZeus]

CCC my dad used to have a subscription until the mid 90s & I still have most of them now. Great articles in them.

[SeeFive]

Mags I miss:

70's - Custom Car, fancy paint and fancier women.
80's - Grand Prix International. Good writing style and a magical cartoonist.

Other than that, just read the trade mags from my Dad's garage business and oil companies - anyone remember Duckhams "Quest" magazine?

['RingNut]

If anyone is interested, I have every copy of Fast Lane for sale.
All mint and in FL binders, including all the tapes.

[T89 Callan]

gog440 said:

T89 Callan said:

I really miss Retro Cars magazine.

I really like all sorts of cars so fanboy one make mags don't interest me and neither do articals about keeping the screw heads standard on a 1972 Morris Ital etc etc etc.

Retro Cars was basically exactly what I enjoy about tinkering with cars. Taking all sorts and making them faster/better/more fun and not taking things too seriously or becoming obsessive about one make.

ETA Holy st just done a search and it appears to be back!

Edited by T89 Callan on Friday 14th August 15:45

when did retro cars reappear? i really liked that mag

Apparently the new version is on issue 14 although I have seen nothing or heard nothing about it, I will be going out for a search for it tomorrow.

[RedexR]

Being a Ford man of a certain era , these two and especially the one someone GAVE me today from way back in the sixties , not everyone sells for a tidy profit on ebay , some people just have their heart in the right place

[andyps]

Supercar Classics is one I really enjoyed and no doubt have a large collection of. There was another mag at around that time I think for which Phil Llewellyn did quite a bit of writing but I can't remember the name. Might have to go into the loft to have a look.

[Stack]

I used to enjoy "Grand Prix International" I think it disapeared in 1985 ...it was very expensive though

[interloper]

Back in the late eighties I discovered World SportsCars, probably not the greatest mag in the world but it did introduce me to the Supercar Test day. This was basically the forerunner of the track day, the events were organised between the Detomaso owners club and the Mag and involved a mix of super cars lapping Castle Combe race circuit. I managed to persuade my parents that we needed to attend the day as we would be holidaying close by.

You don't get track days like this any more!
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v726/SteveH944/5...

After that I then found Performance Tuning, then the predictable Fast Lane, Performance Car, CCC, Supercar Classics.. I even have a few copies left over...

[Shropshiremike]

interloper said:

Back in the late eighties I discovered World SportsCars, probably not the greatest mag in the world but it did introduce me to the Supercar Test day. This was basically the forerunner of the track day, the events were organised between the Detomaso owners club and the Mag and involved a mix of super cars lapping Castle Combe race circuit. I managed to persuade my parents that we needed to attend the day as we would be holidaying close by.

You don't get track days like this any more!
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v726/SteveH944/5...

After that I then found Performance Tuning, then the predictable Fast Lane, Performance Car, CCC, Supercar Classics.. I even have a few copies left over...

Nice pics Steve!

Combe was really bumpy back then as well - I bet some of those cars were 'exciting' there

[5 wh]

Another vote here for Fast Lane.I think I bought every copy.Some of Peter Dron's writings were hilarious.

[interloper]

Shropshiremike said:

Nice pics Steve!

Combe was really bumpy back then as well - I bet some of those cars were 'exciting' there

Cheers Mike, they came out well considering my camera was just a fixed focus 35mm compact!

Oh and the track back then had no chicanes back then so it was both bumpy and faster than it is today.

[tr7v8]

Lord Croker said:

I'm so glad this thread was started. I've just bought a July 89 Classic & Sportscar off eBay for £4, may have to get some more...

This is a slippery slope I have pretty much all the CS & C & it is now on Sub. CCC used to be great, with articles by Andy Dawson, Dave Vizard & Terry Grimwood etc. I used to read it avidly, but I think Hot Car was the first car mag I read.

[Shropshiremike]

interloper said:

Shropshiremike said:

Nice pics Steve!

Combe was really bumpy back then as well - I bet some of those cars were 'exciting' there

Cheers Mike, they came out well considering my camera was just a fixed focus 35mm compact!

Oh and the track back then had no chicanes back then so it was both bumpy and faster than it is today.

Yep, it didn't get the chicanes till towards the end of last century - used to be very fast

Got all the old Fast Lanes and Performance Cars - good to look at once in a while

[williamp]

Lovely photos Interloper. (and nice BMW, by the way)

One of the first Fast lane decisions made was when they decided to run a 5 year old Aston V8 Vantage as a magazine car, ratehr then something more normal like a 190E. Fantastic!

Oh, dont forget Car magazine in the 80s. Today its not a patch on what it was.

Does anyone else agree that car magazines these days have gone downhill in terms of articles and writing, but better in every respect of photogrpahy and colour?

I'd prefer the former please.

[heebeegeetee]

Supercar Classics was the best. Phillip Young's Sporting Cars was bloody good too, t'was the mag I grew up with. Loved the mix of old and new.

[andyps]

heebeegeetee said:

Supercar Classics was the best. Phillip Young's Sporting Cars was bloody good too, t'was the mag I grew up with. Loved the mix of old and new.

Thanks, it was Sporting Cars which I was trying to remember in my post above. That was a great mag in my view, very short lived though so i must have been pretty unique in that opinion.

[heebeegeetee]

andyps said:

heebeegeetee said:

Supercar Classics was the best. Phillip Young's Sporting Cars was bloody good too, t'was the mag I grew up with. Loved the mix of old and new.

Thanks, it was Sporting Cars which I was trying to remember in my post above. That was a great mag in my view, very short lived though so i must have been pretty unique in that opinion.

Ah, missed your post above.

Yep, i used to really like LLewellyn (sp?) too.

[Mr.Jimbo]

RallyXS used to be a favourite of mine. Was never the same after they syndicated it with autosport, in fact it was ste. We get Motorsport news delivered at work as we advertise in it, thats cracking