Re: [AMC-list] Hot Rod

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are also these alternates to Hot Rod.

http://www.olskoolrodz.com/home/

http://www.rodandculture.com/

http://www.ckdeluxemag.com/home/

Ken


Quoting tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>:

> 
> A few months or a year back, HOT ROD was looking better to me, with all
> sorts of odd stuff, but then they bowed to the narrowest definition possible
> again and I'm bored with it, and unlikely to renew.
> 
> Though this month there is a trio of AMCs, two Gremlins and a Spirit, on the
> cover (secondary story, so small cover photos, but, hey) and only a minimal
> amount of apologizing.
> 
> But after readers threatened another religious pogrom with that guy who
> stuffed a super hot (1000hp) import motor into some muscle car, you'd think
> HOT ROD had pitchforked babies wrapped in burning American flags into a
> truck or something. Sheesh.
> 
> I'm sick and tired of the same sort of projects year in year out. BFD, it's
> all been done before.
> 
> I WISH! there was a magazine that encompassed the sorts of "hot rodding",
> custom, restify, and semi-resto stuff that *I* like and I know that a lot of
> us do. Not just drag strip stuff, though that's great, but mixed
> street/performance/antique daily driver, how-to fab and wire and port stuff
> that are not found in Summit or Jegs.
> 
> There's something in here that is the seed for a big-ass crystal to grow
> around:
> 
> http://www.concoursdlemons.com/
> http://www.jalopnik.com
> etc
> 
> You just have to see and meet this crowd to get it. DEEP DEEP car nuts, they
> like CARS, good, excellent and turkeys for the lulz (and occasional parts
> sources). A very smart take on the good and the bad, and honest, genuine
> wrenching, repairs and just plain DRIVING OLD CARS!
> 
> 
> We're not racing in 24 Hours of LeMons this year. Grad school killed my
> schedule, and today is the deadline for the $1000 signup fee. Two of our
> 4-person team are out of work/under-employed, I just finished grad school
> and am working 50% because of it, so no $$$. Too bad.
> 
> 93 Escort LX with a full cage, race tires and the best cooling system
> possible. It drives. Come git it. Looks like crap and runs ... pretty good.
> Slow, but we outlasted 2/3rds of the field of 100!
> 
> We'll pass the car on free to someone who could race it (all it needs is a
> turbo and it would be reasonably competitive). Its' gotta leave my yard so I
> can COLLECT MORE RAMBLER KRAP.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:21, Eddie Stakes <
> eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Some of ya'll were really pissed off last time Hot Rod did a article on
> AMC
> > It was that big April Fool's joke article with AMC COMING BACK if you
> recall
> > and while it didn't bother me, other AMCers rushed out into the streets of
> > Teheran burning their copies, buses, Dixie Chick CDs, and AIG stock:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_0804_amc_concept_cars/index.html
> >
> >
> -- 
> All of your arguments are invalid.
> Enjoy your unstable system.
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