Classic Car Weekly

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Halfords, AutoAid and DMB would do well to advertise there though!

"Hello, Halfords? This is Autoshite Magazine. We're running an article called How to forge a letterhead and fraudulently obtain a Halfords trade card. Do you want to sponsor the article or just run a full page ad next...

 

...

 

Hi, Halfords? Me again. There must be a fault in this phone line, I keep getting cut off. So, as I was saying..."

[oldcars]

This week in Autoshite weekly, how to apply ducktape correctly to a MK2 Mondeo bumper.

[AnthonyG]

That legal expenses insurance - was it DAS? they would buy an ad. Every shit car I saw in the early 1990s had one of their window stickers - usually above the 'Free Enterprise works' sticker put on by the original owner of the car when it was new 12 years previously.

[Uncle Jimmy]

 

But the main reason I've given up on magazines is that I can't stand the dreadful HDR photography, Practical Classics is probably the worst for this.  Some of the photos now look like cartoons.

This Lancaster insurance advert used to upset the pictorial accuracy OCD. The emaciated driver looks to be sitting on the handbrake and driving an oddly shaped and lit impression of an MGB.

[Uncle Jimmy]

December 2015 CCW, mistaking a Simca 1000 for an 1100 is pretty difficult.

In fairness to Andrew Roberts it was the only mistake so it's down to lazy editing, not the writer himself.

[RoadworkUK]

I picked up a copy of BIKE the other day. HDR was so over-used barely a single bike looked anything like it does in reality.

[eddyramrod]

My Giffer Rover will be introduced in CCB next week.....

[alcyonecorporation]

My Giffer Rover will be introduced in CCB next week.....

 

Seen the proof already. 

[chaseracer]

I should write something about the agoraphobic Dyane...

[oldcars]

My Giffer Rover will be introduced in CCB next week.....

Need to buy that copy.

[chaseracer]

Jon's going* to send us all complimentary copies.

 

[alcyonecorporation]

Jon's going* to send us all complimentary copies.

 

 

My bin is full at the moment. 

[oldcars]

Until this thread i didn't know so many folk on here wrote for the papers and magazines. It always seems* a great job, driving old stuff.

[dollywobbler]

Until this thread i didn't know so many folk on here wrote for the papers and magazines. It always seems* a great job, driving old stuff.

 

That's the problem. It's an assumption that it's all driving old stuff. It really isn't. For every ten minutes spent driving an old car, there's probably about ten hours of frantically trying to find new ways to say "check the sills for rust," or doing deep research, or chasing news stories. You have to love that side of it too or it'd drive you mad. 

[oldcars]

That's the problem. It's an assumption that it's all driving old stuff. It really isn't. For every ten minutes spent driving an old car, there's probably about ten hours of frantically trying to find new ways to say "check the sills for rust," or doing deep research, or chasing news stories. You have to love that side of it too or it'd drive you mad. 

Great excuse for buying old stuff, its for the paper honest 

[Joey spud]

Got given these yesterday dated 1997/98 and i can't recall them in W H Smiths back in the day.

Back in the 90's i was an avid buyer of Popular Classics and was most pissed off when it merged with Practical Classics and then sort of died.
Nick Larkin,Martin Hodder and Mark Dixon when at Pop Classics wrote in a brilliant everything's rosey,cheerful style rather than just quoting endless dull facts and figures that they actually brought the cars to life.

Flicking through these mags makes you realise how things have changed in just twenty years,there is hardly any colour images and the internet isn't yet available so all the trader adverts are phone numbers / postal correspondence only.

Anyone got any use for them ?

[Spottedlaurel]

I have a few issues of Real Classics, bought new off the shelf. Even by the standards of the time it was a bit low-budget.

 

I might be interested, just need to check what issues I already have.

[HMC]

^ I've got an issue, everything except the cover is on a newsprint type paper.

[HMC]

Did this morph into classics monthly?

[alcyonecorporation]

It did not. 

[HMC]

Rather than a magazine, what about a yearbook? It could be packaged abit like a mag but be a collection of our best* moments during the year. Maybe a double page spread for shitefest? And the spotted bit would be the pick of the years spots etc

[alcyonecorporation]

But, the internet. 

[dollywobbler]

But, the internet. 

 

Yes, but you can't put The Internet on a shelf. Or fill your loft pointlessly with it.

[sierraman]

That's a pity. One day my collection of Car Mechanics magazines will come through the plaster and crush me to death during the night.

[alcyonecorporation]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[kadams1970]

Well, using some rough figures, you're probably talking £7000 to fill the magazine with content if you use pro photography. Then you've got to print and distribute the thing. That's at (a pretty low) industry standard page rate.

£7K ed budget. I could do it for half that.

 

K

[dollywobbler]

£7K ed budget. I could do it for half that.

 

K

 

Indeed. It could be done for a good chunk less, but my sums were based on paying an ok page rate for every single editorial page.

[vulgalour]

The Autoshite Annual is the only way any printed anything is ever going to work and given how much of a chore sorting just the CALENDAR out is for the brave/foolish souls that do that for us, I can't see the Annual being an actual annual.  Perhaps a Centennial.

[Dave_Q]

Maybe an autoshite magazine isn't a great idea, but a spiritual successor to Jalopy might work in the same low cost/low circulation/low print quality way as the original.

 

I would suggest the title of the mag could be Spares or Repairs.

[anonymous user]

Maybe an autoshite magazine isn't a great idea, but a spiritual successor to Jalopy might work in the same low cost/low circulation/low print quality way as the original.

 

I would suggest the title of the mag could be Spares or Repairs.

Don't you mean Spears or Reapers