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seriously, this is the coolest hot rodding magazine I've ever come across, and I've been paying the regular price for years... this deal is for $49 dollars for 2 years... and it's a quarterly issue magazine. Comes in a sturdy cardboard envelope that the post office hasn't screwed up yet. 

weed burning rail car june 1941, Texas


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John Surtees, only person to win both the 2 wheel world championship and the 4 wheel world championship.
He won 7 motorcycle World Championships, and one Formula One World Championship in 1964,

it might have made headlines, however, John Campbell in the same year (the magazine says) set both land and water land speed records that year, and John Surtees accomplishments did not get the recognition due him.

Aston Martin was incorporated a 100 years ago, and this year the largest gathering of racing Astons will happen at Brands Hatch on July 6-7th

The Mac's IT Special was powered by a 2 cycle Rotax engine at all 4 wheels independantly

Aynton Senna won the 1988, 90, and 91 F1 World Championships, won 41 Gran Prix events, and made pole position 65 times, a record that stood for a decade until Michael Shumacher broke it.... and it all started with a 1 hp go kart his dad made him. With a lawn mower engine

Ettore Bugatti was so driven to win the 1925 Gran Prix, near Paris, at Montlhery, that he upgraded the type 35 to type 39's, made them full road spec, even having ballast to compensate for the lack of a passengers weight. Mid race refueling was not allowed, so they were fitted with oversize fuel tanks. Bugatti was so proud of them, he had a preview of the cars for the public the day before the race, at Strasbourg's Place Kleber

England now has more lions per square mile than Kenya

Lord Montagu inherited Beaulieu, a stately home according to Vintage Racecar magazine, but not a lot of money, so he made the estate the home to the National Motor Museum

An auction ring is when collectible companies attend auctions, and bid up the items to set the auction sales prices as high as they'd like to have the perceived value of their stock become. So if auctions seem to be setting prices, it's because the major media doesn't get numbers from private sales, they only get the prices that cars sell for at auctions, and thus, report the value of a make and model as having risen from the economic lows of 2008, 2009, to high numbers more in keeping with the trend toward investment grade rare items. Auction Ring. New idea to me, so beware.

Auction prices on the topic, here are some trends: American Muscle cars down 32 percent from the 2007 highs (no more million dollar superbirds, hemis, etc) Ferrari's are up 59 percent over the last 3 years, British cars are up 12%, postwar German cars are up 43 percent since 2006

And the 2nd article was a multi page interview with Parnelli Jones, mostly about the Indy 500

above, the Porsche 918 Sidewinder that I like for the white scallops

 and this Veneno, well, it looks cooler than the Aventador because of the Batmobile color highlights
http://www.automobilemag.com/

found on http://deadlycurves.blogspot.com/2013/03/vintage-motor-cover-art-october-1940.html

that photographer deserves a raise!

my co worker Rob was given this when he bought his new Mazda. 

From the creator, Larry Dobbs, to Petersen Publishing, to McMullin then Source Interlink Media.

Thats 4 owners, and likely a car during that period of time, 1988 to present, would have 4 as well

Check it out at http://data.axmag.com/data/201302/U40997_F191381/FLASH/index.html?utm_source=Email+Created+2013%2F02%2F13%2C+12%3A07+PM&utm_campaign=IMBBA+Daytona+Edition&utm_medium=email

 the above shows the difference is half between the top form and the card on the bottom

the Auto week is 10 dollars off by using the top form instead of the card

I've always enjoyed this special edition the most from Car Craft... I just bought this issue, it was finally in the store shelves last week. I haven't had time to read it yet, but the older issues are awesome. 

Exhibit A: The cover of my latest Mopar Muscle magazine was inside this notice that my subscription is about at an end. Oh, and in the lower right hand cover, the big ol words, "BEST DEAL EVER" and "EXCLUSIVE OFFER!"

Off to the left: Save BIG


Exhibit B: the price of the BEST DEAL EVER and EXCLUSIVE OFFER is the card in the lower right hand side



Above, zoomed in on to make it easy to read, the BEST DEAL EVER is 12 issues at JUST $29.97

Below, is the drop out card, that falls where ever you open that magazine, and it has the same 12 issues at $26.97 * Plus $3 annual postage & handling


So the BEST DEAL EVER? the same price as the fall out card that will be thrown away by whoever cleans out the magazine racks of all of these annoying subscription post cards. EXCLUSIVE OFFER! was the part that pissed me off... this is the same price they have for new subscribers, nothing special, nothing EXCLUSIVE to the subscriber at all.

So why should I get pissed? They had me at BEST DEAL EVER, which is the same deal as before, not "EVER" but always, and then spun me up more with EXCLUSIVE to everyone , in which factually no one has an exclusive on it, unless we exclude the people that can't read English in America, because they can't get the magazine for this price shipped out of the lower 48 states.

These same morons did the 3 years or 2 years at the same price here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-got-both-of-these-in-mail-on-same-day.html

Ummm, I was asked to interview for a job basically doing website content and editing  Hey, it's pretty cool that they think I can do a great job though I've had no college or university education in communication, websites, search engine optimization  or whatever else major magazine and website corporations want in editors.

But I don't live in LA, and that's a job requirement, being able to get into the office and hold down a desk job.

You might think they are hiring the competition, and that might be true. I'd rather think that they've looked at my site, liked its content quality and content, and that my stats are about 1/3rd what they do. For my hobby, in my spare time, vs their 40 hour a week pro employees and SEO. Heck, can you blame me for having a look at what I could get paid to do? Hell no. But I'm in San Diego, 2 hours away from their office. So I had to pass.





Past the reception area:




Past one of the cube farms of Motor Trend and into the garage area that Garage Mahal tv show did a make over on:






if you are a reader of Hot Rod you might recognize the Demon on the top rack, or Dave Freiburgers 70 Superbee. Oh, by the way, you can see the progress hasn't gotten far on the Demon





I got to thank Thom Taylor in person for recommending this blog in Hot Rod Magazine! http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/12/best-compliment-of-month-and-honorable.html was my online thank you

Into the photo studio, where beautiful women models (as opposed to car models) are getting personal hair stylists and make up artists to enhance their natural good looks


getting catering by Noah's, with Red Vines, Naked juices, and strawberries. Veggie platter, Orbit gum, and grapes. Now that is a cool way to take care of models!


bitchin table! Even has headers!



and the only interesting cars in the parking lot