I left R&T several years ago, as I just got tired of reading road tests
every month. I switched to Autoweek but a few years later they went glossy
and now every week I read of the latest and greatest. Maybe I'm just
getting older, but I like to read stories, biographies and history of cars,
car people and racing. And the current crop of popular mags seem more
interested in catering to the industry. Thanks for British Car and Sports
Car International also the local magazine store for the occaisonal *other*
Fred T
Elva Courier Home Page
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At 05:59 PM 9/17/00 -0700, Richard Feibusch wrote:
>Don Scott from Northern California wrote:
>
> >Fellow MG enthusiasts,
> >
> >I've subscribed to R&T since the '60's, and have a collection that goes back
> >to the late '40's. The de-evolution of this once fine magazine is very sad.
> >At first it was just an amateur enthusiast newsletter; then it grew into a
> >wonderful, informative and creative magazine. Now, it is basically a sales
> >catalogue
> >for new cars with a few boring articles inserted between the ads. When it
> >arrives in the mail now, I find that I can read what I want in it in about 5
> >minutes. If I take a few old issues from my collection to read again, I
> >could spend hours with them!
> >
> >I know it was bought and sold several times. Did it get burdened with a
> >debt service that requires that the thing be full of ads? Is there a
> >conspiracy to destroy everything that I like or love (family-owned
> >businesses, old-growth forests, cars with personality, politicians with a
> >heart, beautiful music, etc.)? Or am I just getting old?
> >
> >Anyone have any comments on this?
> >
> >Don Scott
> mga <mga@napanet.net>
>
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>
>Don,
>
>It's the corperate buyout of the world - Read a magazine, watch TV, listen
>to the radio; its all the same - my friend Dave Barry up in Santa Rosa, CA
>calls them all advertizing delivery systems - no more, no less!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rick Feibusch
>Venice, CA
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