Folks Of Interest Rodders Journal Update

Class move Ryan !!!

 

Well said

 

Well it's at least the 3rd time he has publicly said that so hopefully he actually comes through this time.

 

Unfortunately it's the magazines lifetime which can end at any time including before you get one

 

I’m still pretty sure that even if #85 shows up in my mailbox and then TRJ moves forward and keep future issues coming that I won’t ever see Issue #84.
It would be pleasant to be proven wrong.

It would also be a pleasant experience to actually get my issues in a timely fashion here in Canada rather than waiting for months after an issue is released.

 

Is the refund for the life time membership only when all is said and I would like to get my order instead

 

All I know is J.Ukrop said in his thread is he has been busy working on content for the new issue of Rodders Journal.

 

Danny... time to let it go. Those magazines are from the 80s. Not healthy to keep lugging the bitterness and picture of the magazines around.

 

I recall Tex Smith trying to save his Hot Rod Mechanix (I’m uncertain of the spelling, now) magazine. When it became apparent that the financial resources were not going to materialize, we (the subscribers) received a letter where he described his contributions to the hobby and how he felt watching his magazine fail.

 

Tex Smith was a great guy and his magazines were perfect for grassroots hot rodders.

Hot rod Mechanix and magazines like Rodders Digest were about adapting wrecking yard parts and adapting donor cars parts to build your ride.
Finding ways to make your own stuff adapting or building what you needed.

You could depend on them for thoughtful tech stories.

These were before the time of magazines basically becoming parts catalogs and the only tech left was how to bolt on some companies products.

Personally I miss the days of the real hot rodding magazines.

 

For guys like Danny and I it’s a lot more than carrying any bitterness around.
Read my previous comment, it’s more about reminiscing and fond memories of what we consider a better time for hot rodders and hot rod magazines that we grew up with.

 

You bet, Hot Rod Mechanix was a great magazine, a hands on type about building and driving simple home built hot rods. HRP

 

Damn well said, Ryan!

 

It may be your opinion, but every damn word is true!

 

I started reading Hot Rod, Car Craft, R&C and the rest in the late 50's/early 60s. In addition to learning about the cars that I was facinated with I also learned about composition, sentence structure, spelling and grammar from those mags. The content (especially in Hot Rod) was meaningful, detailed and very educational, especially for a young whippersnaper who was a sponge, soaking up information wherever it could be found. Hot Rod must have had a slew of proof-readers because it was always, always on point with spelling and grammar. Now it's a shadow of its former self. I still subscribe, out of habit I guess.

Today, most printed periodicals are are full of errors and their content is superficial to put it politely. Rodders Journal was a noticable exception and I look forward to seeing it again.

 

There is a valid reason, why these machines are not in daily use anymore.

 

Right on @Ryan . It was across a lot of print media that was automotive in nature.

About the time TRJ came out I was backing away from my specialty of collector cars. Couldn't pick up a related mag that didn't tell you you were stupid for restoring a car, let someone else do it and let them take the loss by buying it after. That was when we gained a lot of overnight millionaires from tech stocks. TRJ was clean, dedicated, top quality print, little to no editorial articles, an esoteric history book for a discriminating hot rodding community. Not just history of course but enough, and I always knew why I ponied up the bucks at the newsstand. I still use my old ones as reference matl. The pics are so clear, the details you can glean from it are 2nd to none. If anything the time missed will only serve to ground this publication for a longer and stronger future.

 

Good content died with Just Steve and that whole era of writers. Midwest Rodding, Rodders Digest, American Rodder, Rod Action etc. in the 90s. All the stuff I grew up on. @hotrodladycrusr s Big Olds was a series based on Steves build of the car that we all followed. Rod Action did a series in the 80s using the Sears catalog to round out the parts needed to build a T. Tex Smith always had some cool tech going on.

 

..........True words. So sad, but very true words. I'm astounded at the number of grammar and spelling issues that I find in published periodicals these days. English classes must not be what they used to be.

 

Steve had a feature on the 41 ready to go in the next issue of Rodders Digest when it under. So the he sold the pictures and info to Street Rodder and it appeared there

 

If I remember correctly TRJ was originally proposed to be “ad free”..........
I’m no expert on the publishing business but IMO seems to me it would be more than difficult to survive with only subscribers supporting a title with a narrow interest group.
Advertising is what kept subscription prices low.

 

No one employs proof readers any more because the computer you use does it for you........... apparently.
Of course, that only works if the person pressing the buttons possesses the skill of language, and can assess what they have written. It seems to be a dying art........... LOL. (A case in point )

 

Best of luck to my friends at TRJ. Lots of us had faith. East is neat !

 

Funny you mention that. Many years ago I was talking with Tex Smith and Ron Ceridono about a recent Street Rodder mag. I mentioned a 'tech' story Ron had done about hooking up steering in a 46 Ford. I suggested that the column/steering box connection was really over complicated and seemed to use every joint and doo-dad in the steering joint manufacturers catalogue. Ron did a kinda guilty roll of his eyes and Tex said "Don't look at me!" and put his hands up.

 

I remember reading about the demise of Hot Rod Mechanix. Tex said how angry the Street Rod industry was with him. They weren't in favor of him teaching readers how to adapt junk yard parts, instead of buying 1-800 STREET ROD.

 

We are straying a little here, but I agree with what has been said. I have most issues of Rodder's Digest and several Hot Rod Mechanix. I used to buy Rod Action but couldn't take Brian Brennan's writing style. Too many words to say too little, like he was writing an essay in Junior High. When he went to Street Rodder it started to go down hill. And yes, lots of typos even in newspapers. To circle back, I will patiently wait for TRJ to come back. I'm rooting for Steve.

 

As mentioned this was the very early beginning of the end of the traditional style of hot rod magazine with the tech stories and the stuff we spent hours reading each issue and waiting eagerly for the next issue to show up at the drug store.

 

Steve deserves our support. There doesn't seem to be anyone else out there other than Steve or


Ryan who cares about us. Yes, there are hot rod shops out there, but it is business for them. Steve and Ryan, are also in business, but their hearts are in it, too.