shite magazines youll never sell

[hairnet]

was having clear out and getting rid of some modern bike and car mags

 

some of the old stuff was mixed in cos mad dash when moving.........

 

we arent all trig

 

what have you got?

 

my top 5 are these

 

autocar mclaren road test issue

 

 

bought the day it came out in 1994 - used to buy it every week back then [/sadfecker]

 

 

and that came out the week before or after - all about the making of it (albert the mule etc )

 

 

the mag that started the sad twattery behaviour while i was still at school from 1987

 

3rd copy ive had as i keep losing it

 

also have the xj220 road test issue - but thats in the house somewhere cant find it

 

 

got into these fairly heavily - cos they cover everything - not just either cars or bikes - but the price put me off nearly 6 quid - and 80 euro to sub

 

so try and buy them from favourite maxol garage in eniskillen or easons in newry when i go over cos theyre only 3.95

 

also have 6 BIKE magazine mags from 1993 - still subcribe now - a bloke did a trip to usa and canada for make a wish importing a bike donated from kawasaki - all 48 states and canada in about 3 months and 13000 miles - he did similar in 2006-7 ish on a triumph

 

also buy autocar christmas issue - the concorde and virgin atlantic boat is favourite got the odd 60s (ro80) and 70s (avengers autocar too )

 

now that sadness is out the way - wot you got

[dollywobbler]

I've got LOADS of magazines, but amongst them is an Auto Express second edition. Not sure what I did with the first one, but I did buy it. Second edition, from 1988 features the Citroen 'DX' (XM as it was yet to be) and a road test including Skoda Estelle, Citroen 2CV, Yugo 55A and Fiat Panda. I think. It's a while since I last saw it to be honest...

[scruff]

Assorted Your Classics; assorted TRUCK especially those with Phil Llewellin's Long Distance Diaries; assorted CAR from the 80s which are all mostly excellent. 

[hairnet]

I've got LOADS of magazines, but amongst them is an Auto Express second edition. Not sure what I did with the first one, but I did buy it. Second edition, from 1988 features the Citroen 'DX' (XM as it was yet to be) and a road test including Skoda Estelle, Citroen 2CV, Yugo 55A and Fiat Panda. I think. It's a while since I last saw it to be honest...

didnt no1 have rover 200 soon to be (drawing) on the cover (yes i bought them too )

[privatewire]

No pics, because I'd have to hunt for it, but up in my loft I have a box with every Jalopy magazine except the 1st one. Issue 2 still has the free sticker attached.

I'll never part with them!

[Pillock]

I had 300-odd issues of Auto Express from issue 1, with the Rover 200 shot on the cover.

 

I think my mum binned them.

[Talbotman]

Yep the first auto express had a touched in photograph image of the 200. For some strange reason I bought the complete first years worth of Auto express and kept them all in order........quite why I dont know..but they make very intresting reading today!

[trigger]

I haven't got many myself...

[dugong]

CAR Magazine,1985 to 1994. 

I'd like to carry on collecting them back to the Small Car era but the job lots aren't appearing on eBay at prices I'd consider. 
I have but a small fraction of them with me in Cambridgeshire, the rest are still with the parents. 

[Timewaster]

I had a few auto express copies, but I binned them when it occurred to me what a 4 wheeled Daily Mail shit rag it really was.

[spike60]

Not quite sure where I got it from as even I'm not that old but Autosport Feb 13 1953. Used car ads are great, 1938 Mercedes 540K type A Cabriolet, £575. Umpteen millions now. Also 1930's Alfas, Lagondas, Astons etc.

I also have a lot of Motors and various other 1970's mags I did buy new.

[trigger]

I lose track of what I do have, pretty much every issue of Car from 1966 to 1993 par about 5 issues, 1000's of copies of Autocar from 1955 to mid 90's and my Motor magazines I've sold as they aren't much different to the Autocar mags.

 

I still have loads of Top Gears and other odds and sods like Popular Classics, Ideally I should sell the lot as I don't read them and they take up a lot of space but I haven't got the will power to do it!

[Justin Case]

Whenever I'm on holiday in or passing though France, I always pick up the current version of this:

 

http://charge-utile.histoireetcollections.com/en

 

It's all in French, but even with only a smattering of the language you can soon pick up the technical terms as it is pretty well illustrated

 

Other than that I snap up any old issues of Classic Bus that come into the museum sales stall and have kept a few copies of Auto Italia, most of the other car magazines get passed on (eventually )

[dugong]

I lose track of what I do have, pretty much every issue of Car from 1966 to 1993 par about 5 issues, 1000's of copies of Autocar from 1955 to mid 90's and my Motor magazines I've sold as they aren't much different to the Autocar mags.

 

I still have loads of Top Gears and other odds and sods like Popular Classics, Ideally I should sell the lot as I don't read them and they take up a lot of space but I haven't got the will power to do it!

 

Yeah, we may have to have a chat. 

[Jooks]

I have several copies of Jalopy magazines, probably never even read them again.

[mercrocker]

I bought Classic Car magazine in September 1974 on a youth club camping weekend.   I continued to buy it until I moved in with the current Mrs Rocker in 2003.   They are all still in the attic.  I have grunted the things around with me in at least six house moves and they really should be sliding down a bucket chute into a skip.   They won't though, and I bet the bloody boxes collapse the next time I move them all as well....

[Spiny Norman]

Half the wall of my end cupboard is taken up with CAR and Top Gear mags. The CAR collection spans '66 - '08 and the TGs from issue 1 to '08. I gave up buying car mags then because I totally lost interest in new cars, although I still buy the Xmas issue of TG to get the calendar.

 

 

I can't imagine I'd sell them, the TG ones may hit the skip one day but the CAR collection is worth proper money apparently so I'll hang onto them.
 

[scruff]

Nice to see CAR Photo on top, it just sums the era and the magazine up - that it was so different from the norm, they managed to produce a magazine on how they produced the magazine.

 

I imagine Steve Cropley and co to just have lived the 80s dream and relished the independence they had back then, that's how it seems to the reader anyway.

[garycox]

I've been collecting Cars recently, and have '81 - '99, except about 5 issues.

 

CatsInTheWelder has kindly picked up another lot for me spanning late '70s to early '80s, and on the way to Shitefest I'll be picking up another lot from '91-'13.

 

So I'll have some duplicates from '81 to whenever that lot end, and from '91 to '99.

 

If anyone's interested in those (DugongJon?), let me know. Also if anyone is willing to part with any I don't have, I'd be interested.

[londonm]

There's a market for these. In the same way that a NME from the seventies with the Zep or Stones on the cover would be worth more than one with Gary Glitter, a car magazine from the sixties with a Mini or E type will be worth a premium. The Vintage Magazine Shop in Soho London trades in them, vintage magazines from the day you were born make lovely presents and I think they'll buy old ones off you based on condition. I should imagine a NME with the Beatles on the front cover, for example, would sell for £15.00 to £20.00 http://www.vinmag.com/

[dugong]

 

 

If anyone's interested in those (DugongJon?), let me know. Also if anyone is willing to part with any I don't have, I'd be interested.

Would be, yeah. I'm after anything pre '85. I have bits and pieces from '79 to '84, but I'm going to start going backwards from there. 

[garycox]

I'll save those for you then (maybe let me know which '81-'84 you have?) and will probably find a home for the others at Shitefest.

 

Hopefully see you there but if you can't make it over I can post them or something.

[Bren]

I have 5 binders of max power from 1987 until the end of 1991.

 

Lots of chod, Capri,granada, sd1 etc. A damn sight more interesting than shitty corsas and saxo's.

 

Lots of tuning articles on a series, rover v8, Essex V6 etc.

 

I have loads of other mags( street machine etc) which I will not get rid of.

 

I have also kept my old rover sd1 club mags from the 1990's as they can be a good read also. I was a member until last year, however I did'nt renew because the mags had little content - obviously there are'nt the members nowadays.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

With all this 'car' love around ,I'm not sure if this is the right place for this confession or not.

Firstly I must make clear I was a complete fan from January 1976 when I read my first issue( Countach,BB and 930 test+ 4x4 test complete with nasty letter from Toyota for damaging a Landcruiser). I didn't miss a single issue until about 1992 when it went off the boil.

 

Summer 1983, I was going to the pub one Sunday morning and happened across this exact scene

 

 

 

 

This was well before the XJ-sc or AJ6 had been launched, also long before we all had a camera in our pockets. I rushed home to get a camera then sneaked up on the photographic crew with my camera hidden behind me.. As soon as I was close enough I started taking pictures,this pissed them off severely,they slammed all the bonnets and stood in front of me ,threatening to get the Police etc.

Obviously I had no idea if they'd come out,but next morning I called car,fancying myself as the next Hans Lehman, spoke to Steve Cropley ,who said to come into the office. The office,just off Smithfield Market,was exactly as you'd hope it to be, 3 or 4 poky rooms above a cafe and bank. Chaotic and stacked up with magazines ,press packs and books. I met Cropley and Adam Stinson, they quizzed me about what the AJ6 looked like with Stinson even doing some sketches based on my ( mostly made up) memory- the pictures still undeveloped at this stage. They then showed me the layout of the next issue's cover before telling me they weren't interested but would buy my photos for £50 to preserve their scoop.

This pissed me off....

 

 

 

I went back to work and phoned the Evening Standard, can't remember the guy's name but he jumped at them after I told him about the next issue of car!

I went to Fleet St and he took me to the pub while someone developed the film. After 3 pints a messenger arrived with the photos,some of which had aggressive looking Jaguar people putting their hands in my face- he loved those. He then offered me £400 for exclusive use,which as a 19 year old on £700 a month, I jumped at. Sent another messenger back to the office for a contract and cheque, deal done.

The pictures appeared in the Standard the next day, Car's 'scoop' followed a week later. I bought a couple of copies of that paper and lost them long ago.

So,sorry, car,Steve Cropley,Adam Stinson and every car fan.

[dugong]

Please scan and post those photos up!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Please scan and post those photos up!

I'd love to,but I lost the copy of the paper and I left the prints and negatives with the motoring correspondent of the Standard in a smoky pub just off Fleet St in 1983!

I wonder if there's an online archive.......

[mercrocker]

^^Maybe there is, but that is a great story and totally sums up the old days of Fleet Street....Brilliant!   I would deffo have taken the money too.  Old style photo scoops were more short lived than the shine on an XJS...

[Junkman]

I have each and every issue of Collectible Automobile, including all the specials. I've been a subscriber from issue #2, which makes me their first international subscriber.

Now they didn't let me renew my subscription, due to a severe hike in postage. They didn't even ask me whether I'd be willing to pay the extra cost, but referred me to an international magazine broker in Belgium. I'm so pissed off that I blatantly refuse to ever receive yet another issue.

I will never sell them, so I just told a friend in Germany that she can have them all for free.

[Junkman]

And I have this.

 

[dugong]

It's like that bit in American Beauty, except it's not a plate.