Magazines what do you collect?

[jess]

After all the money going to models Do people here collect car mags or just buy the occasional one? Also wwhat car mag do you all think is the best out there?

Jess

[VXfan]

I only collect Australian Muscle Car,missing a few but as they say,ebay is your friend:)

[racer69]

I wonder why sometimes but i get Auto Action each week, have done for quite a while.

I get most editions of MRA and AMC, as well as the good edition's of British magazines like Autosport and Motorsport.

[Leigh]

Up until recently, the in-laws owned a newsagency, so read just about every motoring rag worth reading, and some not worth reading;)

Now that I have to pay, I buy Street Machine and MSN, and others I flip through in the shop...

[alfa156]

I buy F1 Racing, Octane, Motorsport and AMC. I have always got something to read!

[toddy05]

Australian Muscle Car and V8X are the two I have subscriptions for and the only ones i have bought in the last year. Wheels is good, Motor has lost the plot, Street Machine is now so expensive.

[lukey73]

I have got a full AMC collection which i enjoy re-reading, i also get Motor and Wheels every month ( have got most of them back to the early 80's oldest being Modern Motor feb 78 ) i also buy Auto Action every week.

Luke

[wayno]

I just buy mags I like. I used to collect them, but with the space my models now take up it's just not practical anymore.

[Mark Wicks]

I buy all issues of F1 Racing and get every issue of Motorsport News delivered free (ahhhh..., the privileges of writing for Australia's most respected racing mag...). Usually buy Australian Muscle Car and whatever karting mags there are (pity the Australian one is total crap). Flick through MRA, V8X, Motorsport, AA, Autosport, Racecar Engineering etc in the newsagent and might occasionally buy if there's a few good features. IMO one of the best mags at the moment is the American 'Racer' magazine - but it's too damn expensive to consider purchasing. The Italian Autosprint magazine is good too - if you can read Italian.

There used to be a great F1 magazine in the late 70s/early 80s called 'Grand Prix International'. I have managed to secure all but the first few issues of GPI. They published a full colour magazine based on each race - pretty impressive for the time.

Bernie E put out an official Formula 1 magazine a few years back. The first 12 months were fan-bloody-tastic - the best F1 magazine ever - but then it went down hill big time and was killed off late 2003.

[Martin Thomas]

I have started getting AMC and have been trying to get all the Racing Car News mags that have covered Brocks Bathurst wins. I still need one more to have all 9. While watching out for them I have been able to pick up a few others reporting on bathurst.. I prefer the older ones with the paintings on the cover instead of photos.. I think they will be a nice display once I read them all and get my bum into gear to display them.

[mick xu1]

I used to buy Auto Action every fortnight as it only came out weekly a few years back, I think since it's gone weekly it's just filled up with rubbish and a waste of money.

Like a lot of other collectors I only collect AMC, I have all 21 editions....seems like yesterday spotting issue 1 in the Newsagencies

I also grab the odd Unique cars mag, it has some great stories in it such as issue 250 did a story on Ian Tate (HDT Engine builder) that's the stuff that interests me not the..... He said, she said..... crap some of the other mags do

[AmonFan]

I buy Motorsport News and Aussie Muscle Car, still cant beat Racing Car News though ;). I have pretty much all of them from about 1967....lol sad i know. I have quite a few Chequared Flag Mags as well. The Grand Prix International mag was brilliant, and i have AutoSport from about 1991 to about 1999....... Most i kinda stumbled across from old race drivers etc.... Got a massive array of RCNs in the early 90s from Peter Verheyen ;)....

[AmonFan]

Oh yes and i buy the Aussie Karting Mags and whatever else is available. But for fast news on karting i rely on that kartsportnews, not a bad site that, hehe.......

[Nick Short]

Mostly UK magazines such as Octane, Evo, GT Purely Porsche, Auto Italia, Total BMW etc - the ones that have quality photography, in-depth technical descriptions, accurate histories etc. Avoid like the plague anything featuring modified cars/car stereo features/burnout cometitions.......But I don't get every issue, just those that feature cars I like. In fact the only mag I get every issue of (so far anyway - we'll see if that continues...) is AMC. I also get a few non-UK mags like Excellence, and always trawl eBay and secondhand book shops for out of print stuff and back issues. Got a great Christophorus (Porsche's own, oddly-named magazine) special issue on the 911 GT1, which was a real find for someone like me! And just got hold of a 1975 German mag featuring a road-legal Porsche 917K as their cover car, so I'm rapt......

[Mark Wicks]

Oh yeah, forgot about the old RCN, it was pretty good. I used to get a few of those as a kid and found a couple in 2nd hand shops for 50c each.

AF - glad to see you know where the good karting stuff is.... :D

[toecutter]

GT Purely Porsche.
911 & Porsche.
Ultra VW.
Ol Skool Rodz.
Australian Hot Rodding Magazine.

:)

[GSXR1]

I used to buy just about every bike mag going around, but have cut back recently.

Currently I get:-
Australian Motorcycle News
Fast Bikes
Superbike
Motorcycle Racer
Australian Muscle Car (every issue from #1)
Motor Racing Australia (also from #1)
V8X
Rallysport
Oval Express (Speedway)
1:18 Diecast Downunder
plus the occasional issue of both Auto Action and Motorsport News

Newsagents love me, I just can't walk past one without going in and having a browse...and more often than not a purchase! :D

[jess]

Cool thanks everyone. Im actually thinking of subscriing, had a look today and was quite fond of street commodores so picked it up. Bit disappointed as the newsagents just sprawled their mags willy nilly and I got a damged issue (only a couple there). Oh well.

Just a question do you disp;lay your mags or simply read/look at them and just place them somewhere?

[castkrazy]

I used to collect lots of car and bike Mag's but now due to my heavy commitment to diecast there's not much $ left for lots of magazines so I now only get the Australian muscle car mag and 1/18 Diecast Downunder .(great value too)

Jess , I read them and then store them in a safe place along with my other mag's that I used to buy . (keeping them in mint Condition)


Cheers Jim .

[Crowey05]

Well I get Motorsport News and Auto Action but have cut back on them lately. I have subscriptions to Motor Racing Australia and Australian Muscle Car.

[Nick Short]

Jess, my AMCs are carefully boxed up to keep light and dust off them, my more recent magazines have their space on my bookshelves (I'm always pulling one out to re-read), and the rare ones (original road tests or sales brochures of legendary cars, for instance) have their own plastic covers to give them more protection. I used to buy magazines, read them once and then throw them away, as it had never occurred to me that I might want to read them again, and when I recognise some of those binned mags on eBay I wish I'd not done it!

[spoonster05]

I've got an extensive collection of Australian and international motorsport related magazines, they can be a great information resource when trying to answer quiz questions or to settle arguments quickly..

[FPR FAN]

I read Australian Muscle Car and Motorsport News magazine. I used to buy Street Machine every month, but now I pick it up and have a look at the articles before I decide whether it is worth buying. As you can see at the bottom of my post, I am still searching for Issues 6 & 8 of AMC. Issue 8 went for over $100 a couple of days ago on Ebay! I will have to save up for these two at that price. I buy Unique Cars sometimes as it has some good articles in it.

[racer69]

GPI - I have most of the issues of this from late-84 until the end in 1986, when it covered alot more than just F1, including the WRC, World Sportscars, even Formula 1 powerboats!

I also have a tonne of old RCNs, Chequered Flag, Australian Motor Racing & GT etc etc

[V8SS]

I normally only buy Street Commodores as I know I'll find something of interest in the whole magazine.
I've also been collecting the HRT Yearbooks since 1998 but missed out on 2003 so if anyone knows where I can find one:confused:

[VXfan]

Keep checking ebay mate,that's where I score mine from.Got the 1998 and 1999 ones for 5 bucks each a couple of weeks back.:)

[Dragferret]

I've been buying Street Machine since it was Van Wheels. I also have full sets of Dragster Australia, Street Rodding, Custom Rodder and Cruzin. As a kid I rode around the local area buying up old Hot Rod and Rodding Review mags from second hand shops at 20c each. I've still got them. Best of the current lot has to be AMC. We really didn't appreciate what we were watching back then.

[username]

I collect car sales literature from all manufacturers (brochures, spec sheets etc etc). Have a number of MOTOR mags also.

[brchi17]

for me it's AMC & Wheels, plus a subscription to AA which will become Motorsport News when it expires.

[Esses]

Used to subscribe to Overlander & buy the odd Bushdriver or 4 X 4 Australia, plus Street Machine or Wheels, but don't bother with any now. Have a few VERY old Wheels that feature some of my old cars - eg: HB Torana. Kept some Overlanders that featured my various 4WD's.

[streettuner]

Well i subscribe to Wheels and have done so since April '93. I remember the 1st issue i got, it had Dick Johnson on the cover in a mega test of performance cars back then.
Also subscribe to Hot 4s and Performance Cars. Dont recall when i started getting those. Both good reads:)

[HSV GOD]

STREET COMMODORES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with out fail every month i live for every issuse i'll buy street machine aswell but only if it has a commodore featured in it and ocasionly wheels and motor:)

[waldo]

Have a full set of official Bathurst programmes from 1985 to now and all V8X mags except #1,2,3,6,7,8.

[Graeme]

Hate to say it, but maybe Nick Short would agree, the Poms do it best - For classic road and race cars, OCTANE is now one of best, and CAR is still great for the new car market, but all are now pretty pricey in Australia.

I have subscribed to F1 RACING since 1996 and, of course, I wouldn't miss an issue of AUSTRALIAN MUSCLE CAR.

WHEELS and MOTOR are slick glossy presentation magazines which I only buy selectively - the really good story tellers have pretty much disappeared from the Wheels editorial group, Paul Cockburn being the last notable scribbler that I recall.

I'm still quite fond of LEG SHOW, one of the few quality glossy magazines from the USA - and, it sure beats reading MOTOR TREND or CAR & DRIVER !!

[Nick Short]

AMC Issue 8 on eBay at the moment for 10 bucks, so prices have come down from the mad days! I think someone was after number 8 a while back.

[Andrew]

I managed to get hold of a mostly complete collection of Wheels magazines between 1990 and 1998 for free so I have a lot of them in magazine holders.

I also bought every issue of the now defunct UK glossy RallySport magazine (it was excellent), as well as every issue of the now defunct (but less-excellent) Rally XS.

Apart from that, I occasionally buy AutoAction, Unique Cars and Motorsport News if there is a feature on Skyline GT-Rs or Toyota F1, and I have a few issues of EVO (brilliant), CAR (also brilliant) Top Gear, and the Australian SPEED. I have flicked through Octane and was tremendously impressed, but have the rationale that I buy only if there is an article that features a car that I love.

But I agree with Graeme - the Poms do car magazines the best. The quality of the writing, the photographs etc. Love it. plus, mags like EVO and CAR cross the Channel and do awesome photo spreads at the Nordschleife, the Alps, southern France, and Italy. How can you beat that?

[DamienT]

What about diecast model magazines? Anyone collect those?

[Nick Short]

Other than Diecast Downunder, what is there? Other than the slightly ropy UK ones, that is!

[BILLFORD1]

Have cut back in recent years. Collect every copy AMC, some Aust Motor Racing,V8 TV Guides, Bathurst Programmes, F1 Programmes & any other "one offs" of particular interest due to specific articles of interest.

[Chev_350]

I haven't been collecting them for long, but you gotta start some where......I got NASCAR Illustrated mags from late 2003 to now

[dwarfs]

I only collect V8X mags and thats all... I have a few race programes from PI, Sandown and Pukekohe somewhere too...

cheers

[james]

Only AMC and Motor ,keep programes from race meeting that i attend.

[MrDarrylMan]

I collect Motorsport News, Auto Action (aussie), V8X and Motoracing Australia (Not bad for Kiwi collecting Aussie magazines).

[thekid_600]

AMC and V8X
and all Bathurst Programmes.
:)

[MarkHM]

F1 racing, anything with Brock in it, AMC, Bathurst programmes. I need a life...mind you my friend has a lounge full of Nat Geos...on every wall

[monarocveightz]

Only Motor magazine interests me and possibly 1:18 Diecast Downunder.

[waldo]

I now have all issues of V8X, Even got V8X to send me their last copy of issue #3, and all Bathurst programs from 1983-2005.

[el_hefty]

Not only black and white... i have the set bar a couple of strays which i will get to. Its a photography thing ;)

[luckystudebaker]

I collect "Just Cars" magazines which are similar to "Unique Cars". I love the classic cars and the magazines are always great to look back on when they become old. ie there was a mint original low milage XY GTHO Phase 3 shaker advertised in there quite a few years back for $9000. Now try and get one for under $100,000.

[Buffalo]

My magazine / book library is far more extensive than my Diecast collection seeing I have collected some of the following for over twenty years - Unique cars, Street Machine, Performance Street Car ( no longer ), Hotrod, Popular Hot Rodding, Wheels, Motor, RallySport news, Auto Action, Australian Muscle Car, Motorsport, Car (UK), Top Gear (UK), EVO, Fast Fours, plus many more magazines, books, race programmes, parts catalogues etc ... seems I just don;t throw any of them away ( much to my wife's amazement :D ) and it is fun to pull an old one out and look at the changes that have taken place !

[KiwiRallyFan]

Not really a magazine, but I have the complete set of 'World Rallying' books by Martin Holmes, including 'Rally 78' which preceded the World Rallying series; that's 29 books in total.

[SL/ENUT]

I have every single issue of AMC mag, and counting :D
Street Machine
Street Commodores
Wheels
Motor
Unique Cars.
Been in the right place to get some classic Peter Brock mags, one is called Peter Brock, The Book and the other is the 1987 Street Machine special on Brock.
But searching high and low for the Super Ford isssue with the XA GT-HO Phase IV right up.

[Gillick]

I used to buy magazines, not anymore - theyre a waste of money. Read it once, that's it. If I want to read reviews, articles etc and look at cars, thats what google is for.

[Holden2003]

I always buy F1 racing's March season preview and the Man of the year issue, as they are good complements to each other. I think F1 racing is a fantastic magazine and have been meaning to subscribe to it for a while now. There is great detail into F1, the pictures are stunning, and this is one of the few motorsport magazines that is not filled with grid girls in it, so more space for relevan articles.

The best article I read in it was Peter Windsor's comparison of Mark Webber and the tasks he had to do with Williams to the 12 Labours of Hercules in the August issue, which covered the US debarcle. Very funny, very detailed.

[HSV GOD]

Streetcommodores
Street Machine Streetcommodores
Streetmachine

[MarkHM]

Are they all written in upper case too?

[toad]

I always buy magazines...pretty much all the one's mentioned here and then toss them out. Which on one hand is a waste, but they take up a massive amount of room.

Having said that, i have found in a dark closet in the shed about 100 Auto Actions from the early 90's

[HSV GOD]

Are they all written in upper case too?

HOW ABOUT WE TRY AND NOT RUIN THIS THREAD ASWELL

[toddy05]

gotta love aus muscle car....

[Nick Short]

Just found a treasure trove of old Wheels and Motor magazines, and was happy as a kid in a sweet shop today! To be honest I've been a bit put off by the mags up to now, as the cover always seems to be basically either a Commodore versus a Falcon, a Falcon versus a different Falcon, a Commodore versus a WRX, a WRX versus a Lancer Evo, a Lancer Evo versus a Falcon, all 4 versus each other, or if in doubt, 25 different cars all parked together and they see which one is fastest. About as varied as the cover of Cosmopolitan. And until fairly recently there was no indication of what else was inside, although at least they now print a few words on the contents.
But trawling back through the 90s into the 80s and 70s I found articles on not only Aussie classic road and race cars, but articles lifted from the British and European press on exciting and different and exotic cars. Naughtily most of them pretended they'd been written especially for Wheels or Motor, when they had just been bought from a UK publication (which itself had often run an English language translation of an article from the German press!). So although I often also have the original British version from a few weeks or months earlier, the Aussie versions often have better (or at least different) photos of the same car.
But weirdly many of these cars from Germany or Italy or Britain are still basically unknown to most of my mates who are avid petrolheads and get all the magazines! All I can assume is that they thumb through, looking at pictures of Commodores and Falcons, but skip articles on the Porsche 962 or TWR XJ220S.....

[toddy05]

Got on to NASCAR Illustrated the other day, better than Sports Swimsuit Illustrated I might add and I was rather impressed bar for the premium price being an American issue, but still quite good and glossy. Plenty of interesting news and BTS stuff,

[Nick Short]

One thing that leaps out from all those old Wheels and Motor mags is the appallingly low levels of advertising standards.......Not just the badly-written illiterate copy or the ads illustrated with drawings apparently done by a talented 8 year old with a blunt pencil (and photos by a 4 year old with an Instamatic camera), but the basic idea that runs through so many of the ads - that if you buy this car or accessory or cigarette you will have women in bikinis fawning all over you. There's a bloke, fully dressed and looking smug that he's just bought some alloy wheels for his car, and suddenly there's a young woman in a bikini looking adoringly up into his face and stroking his arm. Could happen. After all, women are stupid and easily impressed by your wheels, even if you're ugly. Then there's the tyre ads - "you can tell a man by his tyres"......(can you really?) "...wide macho tread..." Macho???? I can hear the knuckles scraping the floor all these years later. With ad writers like this no wonder Australia was stereotyped for its brainless macho sexism for so many years. And why there are still middle-aged blokes who think the definition of a man is drinking heavily and owning a V8. I was breathing a sigh of relief that those days are past, when I came across that ad from 2005 for the Falcon ute......the TV version showed 2 rough looking blokes being followed, trance-like, by every woman in town (as if they were dogs attracted to a scent). The magazine version omitted the blokes but showed all the women still unable to help their foolish little brains, drawn irresistibly to a car. And the copy talks about an "extremely seductive bodykit" (and what woman wouldn't drop everything she was doing to have a closer look?), "sexy alloy pedal covers" (they're covers, not even real alloy pedals), and then goes on to say "did we mention the bulge in the bonnet?" Sheesh! Car ads are by definition wanky, but some of the Aussie ones take the biscuit....

[Leigh]

I think you'll find that the recent Ford ute ad was a p*** take...

[Nick Short]

I really want to believe that, I really do, but there's something about it that makes me think it was serious, even though it looks like a piss-take. And I'm sure, even if it was, that it went over the heads of a large section of the target audience! And after seeing that Aussie TV show "Star Bodies" where 12 women rode horse or walked on the beach stark naked and talked about their star signs, I think anything's possible in such a country!

Australia isn't alone in lazy sexist adverts of the past - Britain had its own bunch of aftershave-and-gold chain-wearing advertising bods who came up with ideas like "drive a Triumph and female traffic wardens will unbutton their blouses", "use this brand of sparkplugs and adoring women will appear as if from nowhere", and "I can't come up with a decent ad campaign so I'll just have a woman in a bra holding the product and licking her lips". They really earned their money, those ad people! Where did they get their ideas? But British ads were forced to change years before Aussie ones were. Now cars are advertised generally with some flash bozo driving too fast in a city, so it's back to lazy and derivative, just without the women.....

[VXfan]

I take it u weren't a big fan of the 'Carry On' movies then Nick?;) "Ooh no missus,don't get many of them to the pound" ooerr :D
Looking at an old Bathurst programme yesterday,the ciggy ads crack me up especially the PJ ones - young couple skipping thru the countryside with fag in hand,aah,smell the fresh air.:D
Cheers,
Tony.

[Nick Short]

No, not really, although you do a very good impression of Kenneth Williams or Sid James! A lot of people just accept what comes on TV or in the press, like they accept whatever weather comes along, as if it's unavoidable, or "just how things are". But of course every TV programme, every ad campaign has some (usually awful) people behind it, applying their attitudes and shaping the media climate. I remember when Star Bodies came on TV my wife's cousin rang his jolly chum responsible for the show and was saying "Giles (or whatever his name was), what a great show! Was that your idea? I think you should do a lot more of this kind of thing" etc etc. Behind the scenes were overgrown drooling private schoolboys in the TV commissioning business, and the result was naked women crapping on about horoscopes while walking on beaches......And of course in the 70s we all were persuaded that there was something wholesome about dragging on a cancer stick with your wife, as you walked in the bush (and risked bushfires as well as lung cancer). After all, real men smoked, sexy women smoked, doctors and rugged sports stars smoked. Didn't they? And of course they tanned themselves to a sort of deep mahogany shade, drove their deathtrap cars at speed, drank large quantities of whisky and beer, ate crap food (fruit and veg? What's that?) and all the other things the ad execs persuaded them was the right way to live....If you didn't there was something wrong with you.

[VXfan]

aah,the glory days eh?:D
I've been telling my missus for ages that most the advertising execs are fat,sweaty men who just want naked chicks in all their ads.
Anyway,I'm going to check out some more 'quality' ads in all the other old Bathurst mags I have.;)
Cheers,
Tony.

[awawaw]

i collect AMC, MRA, lots of old RCN and AA. rock mags 99% with KISS. its fun to look at some of the ad's and the way things were.

[beast]

aah,the glory days eh?:D
I've been telling my missus for ages that most the advertising execs are fat,sweaty men who just want naked chicks in all their ads.
.

They want pics of naked chicks because they can't get any REAL NAKED CHICKS. Come to think of it. I'm having the same problem at the moment.
Lets hope that ends soon.

[Graeme]

Nick is an amusing character. The content of old car magazines pretty much reflected the times ... and the cars built back then, including the beloved XC Cobra, featured a similar level of contemporary finesse and competency ... or lack thereof.

Personally, I wouldn't have minded being old enough to live in the Old Dart back in the early seventies ... if I wanted to see my favourite cars together with naked women in a civilised public setting, I could have simply grabbed a ticket to the annual Earls Court Motor Show - car shows these days can be pretty boring !!

[Chev_350]

Got on to NASCAR Illustrated the other day, better than Sports Swimsuit Illustrated I might add and I was rather impressed bar for the premium price being an American issue, but still quite good and glossy. Plenty of interesting news and BTS stuff,


good aren't they?

[toddy05]

Found Top Gear at $18.50 the other day on the shelves and that was where it stayed considering that what looked like two thirds of it was price guide stuff....
However with relevance I picked up a Hot Wheels magazine at the supermarket the other day and was very impressed. My 3 yo still hasn't got near it and I am looking forward to the next one coming out. They have freebies too like pens and pencil cases which as a teacher you cannot have enough of...

[Nick Short]

Hang on and wait for the price to drop - a lot of UK magazines are expensive when they first arrive air freight, and then a week or two later have halved in price. I buy a lot of UK mags and flick through when they first arrive just to see which ones I want to buy once the price drops!

[fatty]

I used to buy Street Machine. Have every issue from 1990 til the early 00's. Now I only buy AMC.

[05shan]

Street Machine, GXM, and occasional AMC
Motorsport news and motor cycle news
parts peddler and odd Street Commodores and V8X

[Chev_350]

Anyone else get the Wheels Yearbooks? how far do they back?

[Peter Minahan]

Anyone else get the Wheels Yearbooks? how far do they back?

I've got some from the late 70's/early 80's. I can't guarantee that they've been produced every year in the interim.

[HDT337]

I collected all the Brock Magazines when they were done, but after 5 or 6 issues, they no longer done any. They were a great magazine.

Also the Aust Muscle Car Mag, another great magazine.

Anything with Brock in it I'll grab.

Diecast magazine.

Just Holdens Magazine.

Lastly, Street Machine Commodores.

HDT337

[ratster70]

I collected all the Brock Magazines when they were done, but after 5 or 6 issues, they no longer done any. They were a great magazine.

Also the Aust Muscle Car Mag, another great magazine.

Anything with Brock in it I'll grab.

Diecast magazine.

Just Holdens Magazine.

Lastly, Street Machine Commodores.

HDT337
i am the same now anything at all with brock in it i buy even ifits just a piccy the wife hates it unfortunately i missed the brock magazines came out before the bug really took hold of me :D if you have any spares that would be greatly looked after in a loving brocky fans home ;)
die cast mags and auto action and motorsport news and motor and race programmes also take up a substantial amount of room in my book cupboard

[Bully]

All the brock magazines,all the amc mag's, all die cast down under and die cast mag's also radio control car action mag. Have a healthy collection of wheels mag's from 69 to 2000 that i picked up out of the quokka for cpl hundred buks and just remembered have all the hrt annuals also.:D

[wazza002]

Well i'm the opposite to you all I have 10 years of fishing magaznes from flylife to rex hunt and so on. as I love my fishing and I love catching Australian Bass F/Water :D

cheers wazza

[Holdennumber1]

Well, when I was younger, I used to buy K-Zone and Krash magazine every month and I now have a collection of hundreds of them.:o
Nowdays though, I buy the Diecast Magazine plus AMC, Street Machine and Top Gear Magazine occasionally.:cool:
Cheers,
Thomas

[pitcrew]

Not any more.
Have a few old Phantom mags.
A bundle of Mad Magazine mags.
And a heap of other one's ;)
cheers.
P.S still pick up the odd (first release) issues as I come across them.
And any thing brock/HDT

[bills]

I collect auto action when theres only good things to read about and i also get v8x.

[vikings100]

Playboy
Hustler
Mayfair

Oh, are we talking about car mags:o:D

Cheers Greg:p

[david5]

Playboy
Hustler
Mayfair

Oh, are we talking about car mags:o:D

Cheers Greg:p

I like the Real Estate magazine for people that live on the top floor-Penthouse.;)

[dropped]

i get heaps every month... ive got boxes every where in the shed that are full

street machine
street commodores
street fords
hot 4's
fast fours & rotaries
performance holden
mini truckin

i think theres a few more that i also get occasionally... but the ones i have written down are the ones i buy every month

[sleepy]

I only buy australian muscle car, just holdens, holden in australia,(i cant recall buying 1 of these for awhile)and any new ones i spot with holdens (not modified) used to buy street machine but got sick of reading some of the bull**** stories in it. Had a stack of them somewhere going back to when it was called street machine and van wheels.. and it concentrated mainly on vans because that was all the rage then..There was 1 came out a year or so ago called 25 years of commodore which was good reading..

[Skaife fan]

I collect Bathurst programs and AMC magazine, i just picked up the latest issue of AMC today and it's a great read as usual.

[troy]

I collect V8X and Diecast Mag.



troy

[brchi17]

I usually collect Wheels magazine each month & while not being a subscriber, it appears I've missed the December issue! I don't know how I did, but I remember buying November, then seeing January about a month later, so I suppose my long winded question is, Was there a December (2008) issue?

[Kashmir]

There is a December 08 issue as i have it.

[ratster70]

yes there was that was the one they did the top 20 aussie touring car special and where HSV is going with the new cars i think from memory had a flick thru it at the newsagents b4 chrissy

[brchi17]

doh, I must of missed it in the Christmas rush.....:bigcry:

thanks guys :)

[monarocveightz]

yes there was that was the one they did the top 20 aussie touring car special and where HSV is going with the new cars i think from memory had a flick thru it at the newsagents b4 chrissy

I'm pretty sure that was Motor....not Wheels....as I buy Motor, and the stuff you mentioned was in the last edition..

[fatty]

I used to purchase Street Machine every issue from July/Aug 1990 til about 2002. I stopped collecting them when AMC started which I have every issue. I also collect The Diecast magazine. I have every Bathurst programme since 1990. I also purchase Rugby League Week and have a collction of the Parramatta Eels magazines which are no longer produced. I also have various other car and League magazines.

[zoomster]

Hi buy Octane Airfreight .This mag is a lot better then any classic mag out there.Been getting it for a long time and always very interesting,racing history lessons in every issue.It even sometimes has Aussie stuff to e.g Classic Adelaide,reported on Peter Brock’s death.Shown others the mag now they buy it

[steelo]

I used to collect street machine, custom vans and trucks, custom rodder,and some other obscure came and went publications in the eighties street and custom etc.I just buy australian muscle car now and have every issue.I still have most of the other magazines in pristine condition too,drag em out every now and again for a trip down memory lane

[ViperSRT10]

I collect Aust F1 GP, Clipsal 500 & Bathurst programmes....F1 from 85-08, Bathurst 90-08 and Clipsal 99-08.

[ITGRIPS]

street commodores & street machine every month ( subscriptions ), try and get unique cars every month and have recently started buying Aussie Muscle Car which i also try buying every month. used to buy Classic Ford every month but stopped.

[waldo]

Every issue of V8X and Bathurst programs starting from 1982.

[SDK]

AMC is the best mag by far.

[SammyHagar]

Hi,

I have every issue of "AMC" and buy every issue (although i`m missing a few of the early ones) of "Classic Rock" which imo is by far THE best music mag out there.
i also have the last few issues of "Race" magazine,plus i get other mags as well,but AMC and CR are the ones that i buy with out even looking through them which to me is a rare thing these days,i also use to buy Classic Ford (the english one) but stopped getting it because it was getting to expensive(but have heaps of them,and for a while many years ago i used to get the WWF magazine (not the animal one either lol),and the majority of my mags are either carefully placed (not too jammed in) or are in plastic sleeves.

Oh and i use to get Tamiya model magazine,and scale auto modeler,and scale auto enthusiast plus a few others...

Thanks..

[brchi17]

Well one phone call to Chevron today and my MCM collection will soon be up to date again :) Sure at $12ea getting back orders are not cheap, but when you consider what they can cost on eBay I think it's not that dear, considering it's my fault I forgot to buy them :o lol

[fordmad17]

I have Modern Motor from 1982 through to 1995 Plus every Bathurst programe from 1980 and all the F1 programes for the 1st Gp in Adelaide

[SS Commodore]

I have wheels magazines from December 1994 until 1998 If anyone wants them, can't guarantee every issue is there but they were the top and bottom issues of the pile

Free to good home, I am in Wollongong area.
Could post at cost

Cheers
SS

PS I collect MCA, Bathurst programs I think back until 1970 or something, Bathurst Magazine, Motor Magazine, was collecting MRA but stopped at issue 100.

[Chev_350]

Found the 1st Jaguar Racing magazine in my bookcase today....back from when the F1 team started....must be worth a couple of quid

[zoomster]

This is not a mag but I picked up a interesting book today.LeMans 24 Heures DuMans,The Australian Assault.
The front cover has the Bob Jane T-Marks porsche 956.It looks like a very interesting read.
Cya

[SWRT]

My copy of "LeMans 24 Heures DuMans,The Australian Assault" is signed by Brock, Perkins, Grice, Schuppan & I think Alan Jones.
Only Rusty French & Neil Crang havn't signed it !!!

[racer69]

Found the 1st Jaguar Racing magazine in my bookcase today....back from when the F1 team started....must be worth a couple of quid

I got a few of them, they used to come free with my monthly F1 Racing subscription.

[Mr K]

I collect GT-R Magazine.
http://www.gtr-world.net/media/1/20080126-gtrmag-079.jpg

[UNDFTD]

prety much an entire collection of street machine magazine, only missing 6 issues from the 80's (my dad started this collection) and i took over in 1997.

also have every single issue of street fords, street commodores, and extreme magazine

and a s*#tload of doubles because of those stupid bundle packs the publishers put together:mad:

[minh427]

I collect GT-R Magazine.
http://www.gtr-world.net/media/1/20080126-gtrmag-079.jpg


Where do you get this from Mr K?

[Mr K]

Where do you get this from Mr K?

http://www.lindbergh.co.jp/e/ .Back issues usually come from eBay.

[awawaw]

I have Modern Motor from 1982 through to 1995 Plus every Bathurst programe from 1980 and all the F1 programes for the 1st Gp in Adelaide

Alway find the bathurst programs a let down. The MRA bathurst mag is 10 times better