Magazine query

[Lotusgone]

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?

[stevemcs]

There is a website car and classic

[MDMA .]

This one?

https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/classic-cars-maga...

[Doofus]

Car and Classic, the website, has an online 'magazine'. I have half a feeling I may have received an email about it too.

[sixor8]

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...

[LarJammer]

Is no-one buying mags anymore? I used to be able to pick up a copy of C&SC in any petrol station. Now, if i want something to read during my ablutions, I have to drive into town & find a WHS (or whatever they are called now).

[goldieandblackie]

Nobody really buys magazines or newspapers anymore, only old people who can't or won't change.Times have moved on just buy a digital sub and welcome to the 21st century.

[tog]

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.

[AlexGSi2000]

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.

Agreed. Cant beat a good glossy.

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.

[restoman]

Long live the printed magazine.

[M138]

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.

[Escort3500]

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.

[Doofus]

goldieandblackie said:

only old people who can't or won't change.

Everything in the world is done by people who can't or won't stop doing it. Reading magazines, cycling, writing poetry, nose-picking etc.

[restoman]

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 . . .

imho, of course . . .

[sixor8]

I thought they'd ended, the weekly ones! But it seems I was thinking of Classic Car Monthly that finished at the end of 2020.

[M138]

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)