Yeah, me too, Andy-
since when was a new Pathfinder a 'grassroots' tow rig?
There's very little tech, and that which there is
is pretty shallow.
I went back to the early '90's issues to see if it was me-
nope, those are still pretty cool.
So I'm not re- upping my subscription...
Toby
and I race a BMW,
but it really is kind of grassroots..
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From: "andy cost" <andycost@earthlink.net>
> I'm a little upset with grassroots right now. They started out as autocross
> magazine years ago. They expanded to grassroots motorsports and started
> including new sorts of amateur racing. That was OK with me. Now the
> magazine is almost all dedicated to high dollar semi-pro road racing.
> Another thing that got me upset is the fact that the 2006 SOLO II Nationals
> was not covered until the Feburary issue. That is 5 months after the event.
> Granted the February issue came out in January but that is still 4 months.
> The article was buried near the end of the magazine, did not have in-debth
> coverage of any of the classes and many classes were not mentioned at all.
> The article was short and disappointing. I'm sure they are getting a fair
> amount of criticism from enthusiast like me. I suspect if you plan to be a
> high dollar BMW or Porche road racer then you are content. For the rest of
> us "Grassroots" it has lost it's appeal. I found one issue buried under a
> stack of mail that my wife had scurried away a month earlier. I hadn't even
> missed it.
>
> Andy Cost
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