I don't agree with his point. My old Nova and pleanty of others prove it wrong. :thumbsup:

Just rambling here...


I subscribe to quite a few magazines, but the check goes to (in one instance) Palm Coast FL to a mail drop. My guess is that the magazine sold it's subscription revenue off. The magazine does not care if I subscribe or not.

I get one or two magazines in the digital only format, its OK but not my favorite format, I won't do it again, no matter what Marty says.

The magazine is based on an 'add revenue model', that would answer why Air Ride has been on six covers in 18 months. Not bashing Air Ride here, those guys are cool and they make great products, but if those guys have 1/3 add pages in 10 or 20 magazines and each add costs five grand the revenue is just a math equation. If they spend alot of money and want to be on the cover, it looks like they have it figured out. BUT all of that advertising they have sold ALOT of product too.


So if you want to help the magazine, buy add space.

If you want to be on the cover, buy add space? Maybe, but not a sure thing.




I want the magazines to survive, so they need to give us more stuff or content. I've seen photographers take 400 shots during a photo shoot, so put a few FULL SIZE on the web site. There needs to be more content if you're going to survive in the future. Maybe then we can read all of the writers thoughts on a certain car, not just the 1000 words that the editor asked him or her to write.




Mick

His point is if you have the finances anyone can send there car off to someone and have something incredible built worthy of a magazine.So if you don't agree with this please prove me and him wrong and explain how this is not true.

Again? Ok. It goes both ways. Yeah, those kinds of cars get in the magazines, but plenty of non pro built non big buck cars get in the magazines too.

Well, I did mention in my rant that some home builders do occasionally get their cars featured in a magazine, but for the most part, magazines mostly feature high-buck rides or sponsor's/vendor's rides. Of course, I don't have a problem with that because I understand that they have a business to run and we all hope they'll stick around. I guess the main point I was trying to make is that I don't think it's true that 'anybody' can get their ride featured online if you also couple that remark with the comment that getting your car featured in a magazine is on a whole different level. I don't think the cars that are featured on websites like this should be pointed out as 'anybody could have done that'. I don't think that's quite fair to the folks who spent a lot of time building their cars and were stoked when their car was featured online. If someone wants to argue that this point of 'anybody can get their car featured online' is actually true(the argument is there), then it can also be argued that 'anybody' can get their car featured in a magazine if a person spends enough money, or sends the car to the right builder, or knows the right person in the publication business and so it shouldn't be considered as something 'extra special'. I'm a huge fan of magazines and I subscribe to about 6 of them, constantly purchase them at the newsstand, and I always will. However, if someone says "I got my car in a magazine", I don't really pay much attention to that remark unless I also hear from that person that they built all or most of the car themself. If I hear that, then I'm like, "You da man!". :bow:

Yep...job isn't finished until the paper work is done! :rofl: