Folks Of Interest Murfo's ESTATE ?????

I got a letter from the lawyers of MURFO's estate ?? So that is what happened to the magazines?? RIP ; then Newc in Oregon

 

Dale, what is MURFO ?

 

We got the same letter, I think it's part of the bankruptcy settlement.

 

Murfo’s is the name of the publishing company that produced Ol’ Skool Rodz and Car Kulture Deluxe magazines. It’s also the name of the Rod and Custom shop they own.

 

Thanks for that.

 

You’re very welcome.

 

Murpho's

 

Okay so I spelled it wrong. Nobody’s perfect. Sheesh.

 

Im not busting your balls. Just putting it out there for folks who may want to look into it further. You just copied what the OP put in the ***le & gave a helpful response. All good my brother. @chryslerfan55

 

Is the shop bankrupt also?

 

What will we ever do now that Old Skool Rodz is gone…

 

Don't get excited, over the years I've gotten a number of that type of letter. I office filed them for a while but nothing ever came of any of them. Finally round file.

 

Wonder if the shop is going bankrupt as well. They are still very active on IG and have made mention of being at the LSRU.

 

I'm sure I'll be okay without it.

 

I don't like anything with "K"'s and "Z"'s in the ***le.

 

Ooooohhhhh NNNOOOOO!!! No more big, burly chick's with a **** ton of tattoo's hanging on Hot Rod's, ruining a perfectly good photo shoot of a really nice car??? Ooohhh... The Humanity...

 

Damn, I think that was his wife.

 

I'll be minority here, but they did improve on features without a "Betty" blocking the ride. It's sad seeing any mag/ publisher fold, McGann's editorial in the new Hot Rod quarterly summed up plenty of feelings.

 

Not a visible tattoo anywhere

 

At least they tried. That 's more than most people would do.

 

For a magazine that has a reasonable price to succeed they have to sell enough magazines every issue to show advertisers that they have an audience worth paying serious money to advertise in. Then you have to hope that they pay their advertising bill on time. Old skool kept improving the longer they published it but I didn't buy Car culture deluxe unless it actually had a car or two that I wanted to study. Tatooed Orca betties don't spin my wheels when they are blocking what I want to see of the car.

 

Actually, the publishers wife has very little ( if any) ink at all.

 

I will say the Murpho's shop builds some very nice HAMB worthy customs.
They were attempting to improve the quality & style of cars in the magazine from everything I'd seen.
I think its just damn near impossible to be succesful financially with print magazines any longer.

 

I guess I should look through it.....

 

LOL!!! You had to go back 15 year's to find one!
Wouldn't exactly call that Burly, either...

 

I wonder if Murpho's had considered eliminating one of their magazines, or merging them,and making jut one magazine to cover the field. It would have, at least reduced some of their cash outflow. The magazines were printed on good quality paper. I agree, I don't buy automobile magazines to see the women. Automobiles belong in auto magazines. If I wanted to look at women, there are other magazines to look at.

 

If posed properly, it rarely hurt the photograph to have an automobile parked next to a good-looking woman.