I Found Some Old Car Magazines
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Before the internet, there was print media. While going through some stuff in storage I found this box of old magazines from back in the mid 90’s. It’s pretty weird to think that 25 years ago I was watching my mailbox for the latest edition. Now I turn on the computer and research whatever I want. Times have changed.
So take a minute and see what life was like in the 90’s. I’m sure you’ll be entertained by the hair if nothing else.
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Usually when old magazines are found things do not go well.....Then you are grounded for a month.
Ha! Or that box of vhs tapes a "friend" left at our house.
@@TreyCook21 oh god vhs tapes....
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ETCG1 : "I found some old magazines..."
alright, should be good!
Mom : "I found some old magazines..."
_a cold chill goes down my back_
I remember the JC Whitney catalogs when I was a teenager. Order through the mail. Took like a month to get what you ordered.
Ordered mufflers for my old Honda 160 sport and got pulled over because they were too loud
Lawrence Jensen
Cops had nothing better to do back then lol
You mean it took a month for them to ship you the wrong part.
I used to order my VW Beetle parts from JC Whitney!
Francis Flynn
I’m sure that happened a lot 😂
I’m too young to remember print media, but I used to watch every single Roadkill episode when they were on UA-cam. David is SUCH a cool and smart guy. He was a big inspiration to me as well.
When you said "Old" magazines, my first thought was of Hot Rods or Rod & Custom from the 40's. With wonderful ads such as the "45 RPM record player" you could install in your car. Records lasted about a half dozen plays at best with the pressure necessary to keep the needle from jumping. That last line should keep millennials scratching their heads for days!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Eric!
That walk down the magazine aisle at the grocery store was mandatory. Diesel World, 8Lug, Sport Compact, Super Street, Off Road.. times were simple then. Fast forward to my kid learning how to read, maybe it’s time for a new category in the home library
Thanks for the trip down memory lane also curious what others first car mag addiction was
DF also got me into cars and 4x4s, i still have the 3 issues where he built cheap thrills his budget Dart
Crazy seeing you here. Lol I watch all of your videos thanks for all the good information you post on here
I never had to many car magazines. I had Computes Gazette, Radio Electronics, and Computer Shopper. Nowadays I fit right in with modern cars, just give me a J-Box and my Laptop, I'll get her fixed.
Next in this chapter of "This Old Magazine." Take that haters....good one. Glad your Fairmont is in the magazine.
There were two Miata in this episode. Miata Is Always The Answer!
I used to sub to SCC, R&T,Autoweek,Mini Truckin', and every so often Hot Rod,C&D, Motor Trend,Popular Mech. Those were the days.
I was a suscriber to SportCompactCar. It was the golden era of import tuning.
I am much younger than you (27) but fondly remember spending hours reading Car and Driver and Motortrend magazines as a kid, and they certainly shaped my experience as a car guy. I still subscribe to both, as a matter of fact and have a collection going back to the early 2000s.
Of course that's the Crusher Camaro, since that's Bernt Karlsson working on it. :))
As I am sure a few others still do, I still have a running subscription to one of my favorite magazines that happens to hang on dune Buggies and hotVWs. Nothing beats the smell of a fresh new copy and thumbing through the pages to see great photos of other car builders projects. The internet and youtube especially are great resources but taking a break from the digital world and just sitting back to read or just look at the pictures is good for the imagination and the soul. I hope print media hangs in there as books have but then again I grew up with it as ETCG has.
I remember going to the library when I was in high school and going through their stacks of old car craft, hot rod, and popular hot rodding from the 60's and 70', then copying articles I thought were useful. Now, they are probably available as digital archives.
Unfortunately, many of the print magazines have been put out to pasture including popular hot rodding and car craft.
Your magazine subs are about the same as mine back in the day. For Christmas, my parents would always end up renewing my subscriptions to Car and Driver and Guitar magazines, and like you, I always looked forward to getting new issues at the first week of every month. Great stuff!
I'm 23 and print media was a part of my childhood, my dad bought me subscriptions to whatever I was into
Me and my dad used to buy random issues of car magazines, mostly in the 80's and 90's. Some of them I still have but many of them went to paper recycling when my parents moved into smaller apartment. Have kept and even collected issues, which have test drive reports and/or comparison tests about cars I have owned, or my parents cars.
Reports from big car shows, like Geneva, etc. are also very interesting to read now, as those shows had usually also future car technology sections, things like navigators, etc. which are everyday tech nowdays :)
I didn't have a subscription to Car Craft, but I definitely had Car & Driver and Hot Rod off-and-on back in the day. There was a short-lived ( only about 3 years or so) magazine called Full-size Ford that I subscribed to when I had my '68 Ford Galaxie, back in 2008 or so? That was the last car magazine I subscribed to -- I get all my car info these days off the internet, like most everyone else.
Hot Rod and Easyrider were the two mags in my mailbox. Nothing like holding a magazine and drooling over cars and bikes.
Good old days of spending a few minutes reading a magazine at a store then buying a few of them for entertainment when ya got home miss magazines reading them on my phone does tend to give me migrains
I have a box of old 50s motortrend magazines my dad bought when he was a little boy. Unfortunately they are very much trying to fall apart, but very fun to skim through.
I finally get a happy birthday from etcg on my actual birthday.
Car Craft, Super Chevy, Popular Hot Rodding and Car Audio and Electronics, had subscriptions to all of them and couldn't wait to get the new one.
“I found some old car magazines” shows cars from the 90’s... damn we’re getting old 😔
I was buying this sort of stuff from drugstore racks back in the '70's, mostly "Popular Hot Rodding". I remember specific articles like "How to build a Square Rat Motor" and a series of articles about a 3 window 32 pickup (?) called Project X, one article mentioned a cross country cruise in said project, when they got pulled over by a highway patrolman named Rick Padilla (funny how memory latches onto specific things) who didn't pull them over for an infraction, but to ask if that was the One True Project X!
Thank you Eric I always enjoy watching your videos my boxes of car magazines got lost during my house moving really miss my magazines I am from South Africa
Favorite magazine in junior high school library was . . . Hot Rod
I have my Chevelle magazines from 1982 threw 2000 when the company went under. It's real funny to see how much parts costs back then.
Ah yes, I remember just about all those SCC and C&D covers. I had that exact SCC issue at 7:13 with the EG hatch. In high school I was all about some Motor Trend, C&D, R&T and Super Street. I still have a stack of old Super Street rags including the very first issue with the airborne yellow DA Integra on the cover. So many great memories.
Started to read Hot Rod in '68. Now I haunt used book stores for a blast from the past.
Yeah, I hear you Eric. All the pages are stuck together in my old Import Tuner mags.
Dude I have every issue of Sport Compact Car and Super Street from 2000-2006. I bought a bookshelf with glass doors from Ikea and I have them on display in my shop. We have SO much fun just picking one at random and reading Dave Coleman’s ramblings or checking out prime HKS and SPOON builds from the era. There’s so many iconic builds that we’ve forgotten about these days. I really want to spend a few weeks scanning these so everyone can enjoy them but I’m not sure where I would host them.
I work as an advisor for a small shop in Toronto, Ontario. We had a 99' Shelby Dodge Durango in for service a few weeks back. Same as on the cover of the Car and Driver Magazine. Turns out they are standard Durango's that where shipped off to Shelby for modification after production.
I used to have a subscription to Hot Rod Magazine but growing up in the 90s what got me in to cars was watching PowerBlock on tv.
Got a whole stack of Diesel Power magazines from around 2008-2012 back when Diesel performance was in its peak, also got several Diesel World and a bunch 4 Wheel and Off-road magazines from when David Freiburger was the editor.
after all my random commnets and actually finishing your video ..... YES I DO REMEMBER print media and car magazines. I use to grab them off the shelf at the walmart i worked when i was a youngin 18 year old and read em on my breaks\lunches this is prior to smart phones or atleast prior to where pretty much everyone has one and they were as good as they are today but yes I remember them and they DEFINITLETY MADE AN IMPACT on the gearhead side of me
I had subscriptions to Hot Rod & Sport Truck magazines for a couple years after I got out of high school.
And yes, sometimes I do miss good print media... Unlike internet, a good book or magazine, properly stored and cared for, will always be there when you want it. On the other hand, so many websites I used to love visiting almost daily have disappeared over the years (2+ decades) I've lost count long ago. ☹️
Just one example, I got my first instant messenger account with ICQ back in the days of Windows 95.
You didn't have a username with them, you had an account number, and mine was in the lower end of the 8 digit range.
I remember having that same issue of CR with the Shelby Durango on the cover. Whenever I see an SRT Durango, it reminds me of it. SCC was a favorite also. My favorite issue had a turbo V6 Accord on the cover.
I found some old videos of Eric working on Cars and Trucks. It was neat.
I remember looking into car magazines in the 80s and 90s, but they were completely different. They showed new models, tested them, reviewed them, sometimes there was a long range test that went over 100.000km after which they took the car apart completely and showed all the parts laid out, and there were shown also prototypes and new technologies in the r&d process (which are nowadays of course commonly used in every car). The tuning and modification scene didn't really hit it off until the first "Fast & Furious" movies came out, partly also due to the strict regulations of the German TÜV that had to approve every part that goes onto a vehicle, even if it's just a shifter knob or something inconsequentially silly like that. So it was always a niche thing and I don't remember any magazines about that, although there might have been some, but hey, I was a kid back then, so I basically read what my parents, grand parents and other family members had a subscription to, and there was nothing like that among them.
I still miss SCC. I didn't understand how it could be a magazine though, it seemed like a bunch of inside jokes that started in the UCSB Sports Car Club. At the time, I was on the SR20 side of things though vs the B16a/B18c side. It's cool to see where those guys ended up though, like Josh Jacquot, Dave Coleman, Mike Kojima. Those were great.
Many of my favorite magazines, of course I had an equal number (ok, probably more) of PC/Tech magazines as well.
It was a goal of mine to get my car into Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords. At least the reader's rides part. I guess that's not happening now. I was found worthy to get into Car Craft's reader's rides. That's an awesome keepsake I'm pretty proud of, even if it doesn't really mean that much. It's a milestone. How are we supposed to do that now in a way we can show off? Print out a web page or something. It's sad.
5:07 the Olds Aurora V8 with ITB's Fuckin awesome along with that odd carbureted Lt-1 in that same picture
Car Craft, Popular Hot Rodding and Super Chevy were my big 3 back in the day. Super Stock and Drag Illustrated was a favorite too. I think that I might even have an old P.A.W. catalog laying around somewhere. It was about as thick as a Sears catalog.
Got a similar box of my own at home but the ratio leans more towards guitar mags than car mags since that’s my first love. Got a few art books in there as well. Still have that hot rod with Boyd and Chip on the cover and also the Crusher Camaro cover as well. Good memories from that time.
It's funny you finding that, and Freiburger closing Article in the last hot rod.
That Vtec crossover @ 10:30... real nice!
what ?? 2:55 this is part of my pc wallpaper... ! and this showed exactly at the same time (pictures change every few minutes)
Remember going to the grocery store as a kid and looking through all the car magazines.
funny enough this video went up, almost on my bday
Man those mags are in great condition! Lol fangoria, nice! Yes I've still got some old mags (cartoons) and books. Also I still buy repair manuals. Have my dad's s collection, dating back to 1930. (Motors) and Chilton.
Had lots of those magazines would be wild to have your own build featured in the magazines you bought
I do and still love it👍
Nice old magazines
Cool video Eric
I was a Car Craft guy as well, and I really miss that magazine. Anyone remember the Cheap Street Chevelle? It seems like a pipe dream nowdays to pick one up for $1500 like they did back then, but they were fairly plentiful as well and certainly not part of someones investment portfolio.
Yep, it was the ultimate thing to get your car in one of the magazines of the day. Managed to do that twice with builds and a few times with engine builds for others.
Very nice! Congratulations.
Love my 4x4 magazines
Thanks for the birthday wishes Eric!!!
Happy Birthday!
I still have tons of issues of Sport Compact Car!!! I’d read every issue front to back more than once. Those were good times.
Saw a 90s nsx pass me on road today was amazing
Looks a lot like my old magazines (which are in my parents attic)...including the Fangoria! I was subscribed around 90-91.
Boy I almost was wondering what happened to Popular Hot Rodding until you pulled out the one issue. And you are right Hot Rod Magazine was more for pictures and chicks in bathing suits. That’s why I liked Car Craft and Popular Hot Rodding. Also used to get Low Rider and Street Rodder
Wow you really brought back some good memories. Print media was my life back before youtuber car channel. You should do a video on car shows from that era to like Shade tree garage. If you were obrigado that sort of thing. Great video Etgc1.
I used to watch that and Motorweek religiously.
Ahh motorweek. You know that is up in my feed every once and awhile like and toyota or honda review. Its hilarious.
I thought you might have had something with my car in it, but they are all too new. I love my 89 4Runner! It is still no the road with the original 4 cylinder engine. Luckily my Dealer has people working there who love it!
I was always a fan of Minitruckin and Truckin magazine myself
It's so cool that you drooled over hotrod mag as a younger man and then end up in one 20 years later. You are somones Freiburger now.
That's a strange thought. Thanks for the comment.
I have most of those Hot Rod magazines you featured here as I bought Hot Rod Magazine on regular basis in the 90s and 00'. I also have bunch of Street Rodder magazines as I have always loved 30s Hot Rods. I also have 4 wheeler, Mustang Monthly, Lowrider magazines. As I love Euro Ford stuff, I also have a big collection of Classic Ford and Fast Ford magazines. I also have Max Power and other styling and tuning magazines. But the ones I love the most is 1980s Street Machine magazines from my late father. I remember "reading" these as I kid and I wanted to know what some words ment. So I did learn technical english words way before I had english in school, I'm from Norway so think we had english class from 3rd grade or so. I still have my fathers car magazines from the 60s and 70s, like Hot Rod, Motor Trend, Hot VW, Popular VW etc. I must have at least 1000lbs in magazines from my late father stored away. I also have a big rc magazine collection (Radio Control Car Action) as rc is my other passion beside real cars. My 8x8ft bookshelf cabinet is full of car magazines, and there is also loads of dealership cataloges there from various brands. About 50/50 is rc or car related. I really prefer magazines as you can study pictures for hours.
I used to love to watch Boyd’s rods and order parts from JC Whitney catalog. For my suped up beetle
I have a ton of magazines still also everything from hot rod mag to popular mechanics and computer tech magazines and more i also have low rider magazines as well and hunting.. car and driver. i got rid of a ton still have boxes left with a ton of different types and genres of types and brands
Love it and I'm all so big dc2 fan
I had a subscription to hot rod magazine and mini truckin and for a short while sport compact. My interest is across the board.
LOVE this! I can't believe I threw away all my Honda tuning mags :/
i have the same box but filled with different kind of magazines .
I grew up on Road & Track magazine (and Mad as well). At the time I was more into the European Grand Prix stuff than the how-to-make-your-Studebaker-Lark-turn-15.0-quarters stuff. But once I actually got a for-real car, yeah it was the JC Whitney catalog that became a constant companion. Glow in the dark shifter knobs! Exhaust cut-outs!
Back in the 60's and 70's and later it was the only way the average gearhead would learn. They didn't have all the science behind it like they do know. Yet those publications allowed one some insight. There were some engine builders around too. But it's not like they let you hang out and pick their brain. It wasn't commonplace but there were guys with engine stands with engines bolted to them in ones bedroom(hand raised). I remember my Mom saying"I sure hope you know what you're doing there!"
I remember those DC built integra typeRs. They (along with realtime racings typeRs) dominated the SCCA races in their day..
I was gifted a subscription to a car magazine a few years ago. I quickly realized based on the ads how far out of their target demographic I was as someone less than 60.
i remember print media well. between hot rod mags and computer/tech mags I had a lot in the 90s, as for cars I just could never get into modern and imports, im a classics guy
When I was in high school my dad gave me my first car. A red 1983 Tercel 4WD. My dad also collected national geographic. I used the nat-geo mags for school reports. on the back of one of the nat-geo mags there was an add with a red 1983 Tercel 4WD parked on an iceberg. lol. Funny seeing your magazine collection I wonder if I go through may car mag collection if I stole my dads nat-geo with the tercel add. The only time I ever saw the tercel in print HAHAH
Eric... I just recently got rid of my collection of Hot Rod, Car Craft, Popular Hot Rodding and Chevy Performance..... threw them all out. Had every issue of them from 1979 thru publication end or early 2010's. Today I still get Hot Rod, Car Craft, Trucks etc... and I almost regret getting rid of the old copies now... but the clutter was getting too much! lol...
I came back from Kentucky with some vintage Hot VW magazines!
I never had a subscription to any hot rod mags. I used to get them from friends second hand. I had subs to Cycle, Cycle World, Dirtwheels, and Dirtbike magazines - was costing me a fortune -$25 a month!!! 😵🤣 I always read them all, cover-to-cover, too.
I have a plastic storage container FULL of all those magazines from the 80's to the early 2000's. I was featured in an advertisement for the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute from '00 to about '02 or '03. My brush with fame, LOL. I was in every motorcycle magazine, a few car mags, and a couple unrelated magazines I had saw. It was all volunteer, but they highly encouraged me to do the photo shoots, since I was the only guy in the school at the time without face tattoos and jewelry, HAHAHAAHA! I seem to have misplaced ALL those magazines, too! I had saved a bunch of them. I went through them with the wifey when covid first started, but they're nowhere to be found. Could be in a few places I haven't looked yet. I wanted to throw them on my channel for my subs to giggle at. 😁
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing that.
ETCG1 - No problem man! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Love the metal mags. I used to buy those all the time in my younger days. Back when music was fantastic. 🤘😬🤘. 😁
That is the Crusher on the cover of that Paint and Body issue of Hot Rod. Also the first Power Tour was 95 I believe, and the Crusher actually was driven on the first Power Tour, though I don't remember if Freiburger was the one that drove it on that first Power Tour.
That's awesome. Yea, I saw that when I edited the video. It's funny how you miss things while filming. Thanks for the correction and the comment.
Still subscribe and save all of my hot rod mags starting from mid 1970’s...
You still playing guitar, Eric? I remember learning a lot from those magazines, particularly Guitar for the Practicing Musician. My grandfather had a bunch of really old Hot Rod and Popular Mechanics magazines from the 50s and early 60s. I inherited them but keep them at my mom's place.
I remember magazines. Back in the mid 90's I discovered the huge box of magazines under the sink in my mom and dad's bathroom. Those were the days ...... I had been going through my dad's "private" stash for months until one day he came storming into my room and he said, "You've been looking at my dirty magazines!" And I stood there absolutely petrified wondering how bad the punishment was going to be. Then he said, "I would appreciate it if you'd stack them back neatly when you're done!" And then he turned around and went back downstairs. As for me ... well, two things ran through my mind: 1) I need to go change my underwear. and 2) WTF just happened?
Fangoria! @ETCG1 Watching the 1st Evil Dead as I type this my man!
My dad claimed he read Playboy for the articles... Then I got old enough to read them myself and he was right. Print media is special. It has a feel and a smell, and doesn't distract you with ad pop-ups or IMs. Authors can't autograph electronic media either.
I read on a Kindle now because the book prices are lower and I can adjust the text size for my old failing eyes. It's also convenient for checking out library books in the era of Covid-19. Your electronic books check themselves back in so there are no library fines. When I get my new glasses I hope to read more print media. I'll be able to see it.
It's interesting, magazine's can't compete in 10 small grainy images to explain a process when compared to an in depth video showing every step as it happens its entirety. However there's still value in the old magazines. Its fun to look back on old trends. A lot has changed but some of it is still the same. Yep that means you Eric helped kill the magazines we all love but boy did we come out of it for the better. If you hadn't done such a great job of bringing into detail and steps and tips, that all of us wished for when trying to follow an article, we'd still be getting inked up before getting dirty. Thanks!
Thank you!
lmao the guitar mags I know your itch to shred is there lets hear it haha steve vai would be proud lol
I still have a subscription to 4-Wheeler and had a subscription of JP up until it ended. I think I got my first magazine subscription in like '83-84ish when I was around 13. Still love to just sit on my front porch with a coke after work and thumb through my latest magazine. I've tried to do the digital thing and it's just not the same for me. Does anyone remember ordering their parts and having to be home with exact change when they came cause they were coming COD (cash on delivery)?
JP? Japanese Performance?
JP is a play on words off of the word "J"ee"P".
Mine was all fishing magazines and rc magazines. Plus, a few gaming magazines.
At 2:28, the "Shootout special"I had that issue at one time! At 5:32, the bands on the cover were "chick metal" bands. At 7:38, the gigabucks car, I saw that at a car show back in I believe 1997 and met the driver. I remember at least a few of those covers.
So you asked what got us into wanting to work on cars? Well for me, I am more of a backyard mechanic. In 1994 - 95, I had this 81 Dodge Aries that broke down a couple times and I wanted to learn to work on it and my future cars. So I found some book called "Automechanics" from the 60's. Very outdated info but that is where it started. This book had like only one paragraph covering how fuel injection works.
Do I remember print media? I PREFER it when practical.
I had Hot Rod subscription from the mid 70's to the mid 80's.. I think I dumped them all sometime in the early 90's... Oh well!
I still have some of the hotrod magazines that you pull out of that box
SCC was by far the best import mag. I still have a box of them. Dave Coleman was the import Freiberger.