"claramag, Mustaco Master" (claramag)
09/13/2014 at 11:37 • Filed to: None
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"claramag, Mustaco Master" (claramag)
09/13/2014 at 11:37 • Filed to: None | 2
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Any gearhead who's walked past their grocery store's magazine article has at least glanced at the major auto publications. Car and Driver, Motortrend, Road and track...great for new cars. But what about us folk who wrench stuffs ourselves? Are we stuck with big budget mags like Superstreet, Import Tuner, and others with covers of bikini clad models and over priced intercoolers that we swear we really are just reading for the articles? Well for a short time on those stands there was hope. A car mag for people on budgets with busted knuckles and a handy little toolbag that feeds on 10mm sockets. Cheap cars with bang for the buck mods
Project Car Tuner
A real magazine for real gearheads (if not a little west coast JDM biased). Ads were limited, articles were informative, and the cars were real, Project Car was a quarterly mag that could be found on the same shelfs as the big ones thanks to generous corporate ownership.
Almost every magazine had general purpose tech and tip articles applicable to anyone who works on their hands, from general welding tips and tricks, chassis and rollcage fabrication, suspension bushing removal, or just getting that one stuck bolt off a little bit easier.
Seriously, this magazine is so incredibly Oppo I'm amazed it doesn't just gain sentience and start posting on it's own.
Although even if physically possible (get you act together science) the whole 'dead and defunct' thing might hold it back from contributing intelligent posts. By the end of 2012 Project Car simply...stopped. No farewell and last hurrah article, no mention on their website, not even a goodbye over FB. For five years it was a thing and then just silence, leaving the shelfs to stack back up with tits and teins and our fasteners in a bunch.
Dead, but not gone, you can still find a good half dozen full e-mags over on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and there must be 50+ articles hosted on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and if you really wanna get physical you can occasionally find one !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to keep on your coffee table and tell all your guests just how auto obsessed you are
Point is, it's a good magazine with great resources useful to just about anyone. Check it out.
Sweet Trav
> claramag, Mustaco Master
09/13/2014 at 11:41 |
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For us 'mericans, I've always loved Car Craft. Always lots of low buck solutions for us working people.
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claramag, Mustaco Master
> Sweet Trav
09/13/2014 at 11:45 |
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Oooh, I think I want to subscribe
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Sweet Trav
> claramag, Mustaco Master
09/13/2014 at 11:47 |
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And even though its Hot Rod Magazine, i think this is as Oppo as you can make a classic Muscle car
http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicl…
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claramag, Mustaco Master
> Sweet Trav
09/13/2014 at 11:56 |
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Love a good sleeper. Great write up
VincentMalamute-Kim
> claramag, Mustaco Master
09/13/2014 at 12:23 |
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yeah, I loved that mag. They went to Harbor Freight for their tools like the rest of us. They learned and got better like the rest of us. They started off with articles on how to change their oil. Towards the end, they were fabricating a new frame for a Datsun 710 pickup. Well, maybe not like most of us.
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claramag, Mustaco Master
> VincentMalamute-Kim
09/13/2014 at 12:33 |
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I think it was a 620, but yeah that was one of my favourite pieces. Real shame they never finished it in the magazine, was a beautiful build.
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> claramag, Mustaco Master
09/14/2014 at 06:53 |
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Kickass :) I'd definitely head straight for something like this, especially if it was something that had a good deal of variety.