Old magazines, What to do?

Yeah, Boxes of them. Some little books from the 50's and then the rest. Do they really represent a cash value? Does anyone buy in Bulk? No, I'm not going to give them away or drag them to a hundred swap meet's and get a buck each for them, maybe. "I HATE being a seller at Swap Meet's" most of the time people just Piss me off. Nearly all of them are from subscriptions and in very nice condition, but so what. What's the smart thing to do here?
The Wizzard

 

Offer them for sale here, if nobody wants them put them on E-bay.

 

Wadda you have...??? Which mags..?

 

There are Car Craft,Custom Cars, Rod&Custom, Hot Rod, Street Rodder, Truckin, American Rodder. Probably some others I've forgotten about.
The Wizzard

 

I would be interesed in any custom mags from the late '50s-early '60s.
How many and how much?

Recently I was thinking about a liquidating a bunch of Hot Rod magazines I had gotten (cheap subscription).
I was thinking about sending them to our men in service and wondering who I should contact, the Red Cross perhaps?
Well today, I get a flyer. One of our employees has a son in Iraq and they want to send him a Christmas care package.
I asked the gal if her son would be interested in these magazines and told her my idea. She said she wasn't sure but he would at least p*** them out to his buddies.
Problem solved.

 

Donzi; I like your way of thinking. That's a good option.
The Wizzard

 

I might be interested in any Hot Rod Mags from the 60's if you have any.

 

..........this summer, I went through several hundred that I had been dragging around for years. Mostly late 60's-mid 70's. I tore out photos of any vehicles I really liked and seperated them into catagories and put them in a file cabinet for later reference. The rest of the mags, I gave to a friend in NJ. He spent hours looking at them and then p***ed them along to other friends of his. "One man's trash is another man's treasure!"

 

Do you have any Hot Rod yearbooks... I'm looking for number 3, 4 and 8...

 

I do remember a few year books about 3/4 the size of todays mags. Don't know what ones off hand. I remember one in specific with a yellow cover and B-Vill streemliner on the cover #999 I belive. I'll watch for it when I decide what to do and let you know. Gotta go make a buck, Check back later.
The Wizzard

 

Sounds like a mix of serious goodies and s**** paper--so package everything as a set by ***le, and refuse to sell less than the complete stack. Otherwise, you'll sell everything early in five minutes and spend the rest of your life dragging around 500 pounds of "Special issue--hop up your Vega" kinds of things.
Oh, ignore that --I need an HRM yearbook for 1954...

 

I agree with Bruce - sell them in bunches. Depending on what you have, by year and/or ***le would be the easiest. If there's a decent number of 60's and earlier mags I'd be interested in the whole lot. Let us know what you do - reference like that is gold to us who weren't there.

TR

 

I am trying to get some people to donate a few old magazines for a friend of mine who is in the hospital battling cancer, let me know if any of you can help me out

 

Tell us about his interests.

 

Hot rods and customs, he has a chopped 58 Ranhero and was in the middle of building a chopped 28 chevy sedan