Kit Car Magazine is out

I received the latest issue of Kit Car Magazine today with coverage of Carlisle and Knotts. Haven't had a chance to read and seriously review it but there are some good photos of the Speedsters and many of the other vehicles that were in attendence. Should be on newstands soon if they aren't already.

Scan it ! Post the article, I know copywrite laws. Copywrite, smockyright, were Speedster Owners, we don't need no stinkin' badges. I need another coffee.

Up early this morning, Mike?

I haven't had any this morning. I almost thought Mike was serious for a minute.

I'll see what I can do about grabbing one at lunch. If I can, I'll scan it and put it up somewhere.

To hell with copyrights, they're all our cars!! :)

Yeah, I couldn't find the last issue anywhere around here so I guess I'll try digging through the Borders and B&N this weekend again.

I'm a member so that I get the magazine.....the problem??? Somehow it doesn't make it through the mail about half the time and dissappears. I give up, when my membership is up I'll start buying it from Barnes and Noble. Twice I have emailed them to say I didn't get it and they always answer that "it only comes out every other month". Uh yea I know that and I still didn't get the issue with the SAW speedster or the one from three months ago.

Steven, the SAW Speedster was featured in the December 2003 issue. I had to order mine as a prior issue since I have not been a member that long. However, I'm confused, was the notice about Kit Car being on the stands about Kit Car Magazine or Kit Car Builder? I assumed that it was about Kit Car Magazine and I surely will check out the magazine racks the next time I make a trip in from the village.
John H.

Hey all,

I was just down at our local Safeway and they have the mag. It is "Kit Car", wanted to check it out but it is for sale with a sealed plastic cover, drats. Since I am a law abiding citizen I didn't rip it open. The cover did mention both the Knotts and Carlisle shows. If I remember it has a blue cover. Anybody going to rip off the plastic sleeve, almost like taking a tag off a mattress. Probably a federal offense!

Bruce

Bruce:

You're allowed to take off the plastic cover if you buy the magazine ;-)

But if you rip the tag off of a mattress, and alarm will sound, a gas will be released and you will be rendered sterile for the rest of the day. We live in dangerous times guys.
jph

But there are drugs out there that can counter the effects of the gas. They cost about $100.00 per pill. But only 50 cents in Canada. The USFDA claims that the pills which are manufactured by the same company are actually dangerous for Americans if bought in Canada. Oh boy!

VP Cheny is in town today for political purposes. I will try and ask him if it is OK to rip open the bag without buying it. BTW, A giant Air Force cargo plane flew in Wed. with his limo's and his personal ambulance. The veep flies in this afternoon, I assume in Air Force 2 with his entourage. All this at taxpayers expense for an obvious political event. I guess I can rip a plastic bag open if you guys say so!

Another vet for Kerry, Bruce

Go ahead RIP it bruddah....I'll cover your back

Bruce,
I was going to give you a hard time about being too cheap to buy "Kit Car" magazine, but when I looked at mine, I realized the newsstand price is $5.95!!! For a magazine that takes paid advertising to charge that much for their publication is highway robbery.
I say shred the plastic bag!
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JL

oops i was talking about kit car builder.....sorry

John,

Right on, I thought maybe that was the Canadian price but it wasn't. The mag didn't feel like over about 60 pages either. Now you can give us a review of the Knotts and Carlisle articles if you can get the
plastic wrapper off! I'm glad someone popped for it!

Bruce

The cover looks great but it's a bi*ch reading the articles with this plastic wrapper still on!

You know, I was thinking on going back down to Safeway and tearing all the plastic off that issue. It also looked like it was an issue that supposedly listed all of the kit car/Replicar makers. After seeing that thru the plastic I decided to get about a dozen packs of twinkees with the $5.95. I think I already know who makes our Speedies and Spyders!

If anyone that bought a copy or subscribes could give us a mini review on the Knotts and Carlisle show that may push me over the edge! Hate plastic wraps and blister paks, grrr.

Bruce

OK, so I finally find an issue of KitCar and sure as shit, the plastic wrapper is preventing me from finding out if this is indeed the publication with Knotts & Carlisle in it. No Fear Here;
Paul 1, plastic wrap 0.

I think the guys in Carlisle must have wined, dined and paid off the photographer as they got way more coverage than us left-coasters did.
I know, I know, sour grapes... On the upside there was a nice article in the closing pages about the SOC website.
hrrrmmmpphhhhh!

Hello all.
Boy, I need to find time to visit this site like I do when there's four feet of snow outside. I drop in and see what's happening about once a week (if I can). I'll say, it's much easier to read 90-100 new posts than 600-1000!
I'd say the Kit Car pics are good. Only a pair of Speedies from Knotts (Dale Bates' IM and a white one, unnamed).
Inside front cover has 5 in a line from Carlisle. Saville's green Beck, 3 white, and the peach speedie "rod" w/ pawprints.
The Carlisle article has a bunch of pictures, a big group shot, and individual pictures of Bruce's CMC, Greg Billsbach's black speedie, Jerome's SB, Kelly's spider speedie, the "D" that Henry displayed w/ a hardtop, and my car w/ Chuck sitting on the fender (THAT'S where those scratches came from...) Blurbs with each picture, but no real meat in the article, although they do mention the east v. west meets...
Last page of the magizine is a full page, dedicated to the explination of the speedsterowners.com and spyderowners.com website(s)

So... should you shell out the buck$... I don't know, but I have to get back to work.

Carey

Hell, shell out the bucks!

My wife, Kathy, couldn't make it to Carlisle with Chris and me and, even though she had seen all of the pictures on the Forum site, it was still a kick for her to see us (and all the rest of you folks) in a National Magazine.

As Carey said, not a lot of editorial meat, but the pictures were quite good and that last full-page spread about Speedster/Spyderowners.com was great free publicity.

gn

I guess I'll have to go find the magazine now. I'm not worried about a little ol' plastic wrap! Just the salesman, opps salesperson, seeing me with the scissors. ;-)

I've been looking for about three days now, and I haven't found a stand that carries it. I guess I'll have to suck it up and head over to a Barnes and Noble soon...

Dale drop the magazine on the floor, then when you reach over to pick it up.... quickly rip off the plastic cover, and leave it on the floor, when you stand up you can then read the magazine at the magazine rack. When your done put it back on the rack, and you still have the $5.95 still in your pocket



Gclarke

Gary and Dale,

You know that's what I did! Noticed a few other prepackaged mags were out of their wrappers too but none I wanted to read! Ever notice how the mags on the stand are never in order. I think the store hires someone to come in early every morning and mix them all up.

Bruce

Here is my technique: I drop the mag onto the floor and carefully look all around. I slowly bend over to pick it up, not for stealth but to keep from pulling any muscles, and slowly return to the up right position. I then look around again, if my neck hasn't stiffend up. I then reach into my back pocket, hopeing that no one sees me and then I sneak up to the register and PAY for the magazine. Come on guys put a couple of bucks on the counter and pay for the damn thing. If it breaks you to buy individual copies, you might try subscribing, that gets the cost down to about 3 bucks an issue.

Dale,

The price doesn't mean that much to me but when they charge $5.95 for a mag at least I'd like to glance thru it. It is the principal of the thing! Before they started packaging the mag I used to glance thru it once in awhile but never bought it on a regular basis. Isn't there an old saying that says,"You can't tell the book by it's cover." That kind of says it for me, if I can't even read the table of contents, then forget it!

Bruce.......

Bruce I would imagine that on occasion (not habitually) you have been known to pay $7.95 for a hustler (or equal quality)magazine, and not remove the plastic cover until you have safely returned to the front seat of your car. Then and only then when you have determined that neither a nosey neighbor or friend of the "little Woman" has observed your stealth, you then proceed to rip that plastic cover with a strength and frenzy, belied by your years

Huh ? Huh? Huh?


Gclarke "The Vacaville Lecher"

I bet Bruce would buy sight unseen if it had a "Nude-a-Baker" in the centerfold. Hey nice pies.

You guys from da Bay area are all horny pervs the way I read it. But that's OK, we need all types to comment on these threads! Maybe us guys in Oregon love the Beavers. That's the Oregon State Beavers to you sports fans. Where I origially came from Beavers meant something completely differant. Now I have become a true Oregon State Beaver fan!

Bruce

Bruce,
We all passed the beaver on the way out.....
some of us just can't break free.........

did I just say that....
I've been drinking...but NOT driving....