The end of the car magazine
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We have a top shelf Canadian car magazine.
https://www.canadianhotrods.com/bone...bscription.php
So yes a small publisher with a passion for hot rods can produce a great magazine.
https://www.canadianhotrods.com/bone...bscription.php
So yes a small publisher with a passion for hot rods can produce a great magazine.
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I finally got through to them, just have to keep trying, switched all my remaining subscriptions to Hot Rod magazine. Actually I have had a subscription off and on to Hot Rod for several years but have grown tired of the multi hundreds of thousand dollar cars, I cant relate to them at all.
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I just renewed my HMM subscription, I've gotten it since the first issue, i hope it's not going away like the rest. I have let it lapse briefly a couple times over the years and didn't renew any of the other magazine's i had currently except CruisNews.
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Old(s) Fart
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From: Northern VA
Another one bites the dust
One of the few remaining paper car magazines that I get - Auto Restorer - has also bitten the dust. I received notification that the electronic version of the Feb 2020 issue was available (with Oldsmobiles featured) over a month ago, but the paper copy never arrived. I just called and got this recorded message, which is also on their website:
This one isn't due to declining ad revenue, since they did not accept paid ads. Apparently their subscription-only business model wasn't viable. Oh, and of course my subscription is paid up through Nov 2021... 
To our Subscribers, Contributors, and Suppliers:
Please be advised that the Publisher of Motorcycle Consumer News and Auto Restorer magazines, Lumina Media, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), doing business at 640 Avis Drive, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, will be dissolved by written resolution of the sole manager and all members of the Company, effective as of February 1, 2020 (the “Dissolution Date”). Effective as of the Dissolution Date, the Company will cease its business operations and shall continue for the sole purpose of winding up its business affairs. The last publication of Motorcycle Consumer News was distributed (shipped) on January 17, 2020, and the last publication of Auto Restorer was distributed (shipped) on January 17, 2020. Subscription payments for future issues paid by credit card or check after the Dissolution Date will not be processed. If you paid for future subscriptions by check and the check has not been drawn against your bank account as of this notice, the check has been or will be destroyed by the Company. If you otherwise paid for future publications in advance, you may submit a claim for the value of the issues you will not receive in accordance with the below instructions.
Please be further advised that the Company has insufficient assets to satisfy all of its liabilities. Upon the conclusion of the wind-up process, creditors will receive a pro rata distribution of available assets, if any, to satisfy claims submitted in accordance with the following:
1. If you believe that the Company owes you money, you must submit a final invoice or claim for any liability through the Dissolution Date in writing and include the claim amount, basis for the claim, origination date, proof of payment if a subscription claim (e.g. copy of front and back of cancelled check; as well as other data mentioned here), and documentation evidencing the basis of the claim.
2. The deadline for submitting claims is March 9, 2020.
3. Any claims that are not received by the Company on or prior to March 9, 2020 may not receive a distribution from the assets of the Company, to the extent such distribution is made.
4. All claim submissions must be sent to: Lumina Media, 640 Avis Drive, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, Attn: Lumina Claims Desk.
Dated: February 1, 2020
Lumina Media, LLC
Please be advised that the Publisher of Motorcycle Consumer News and Auto Restorer magazines, Lumina Media, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), doing business at 640 Avis Drive, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, will be dissolved by written resolution of the sole manager and all members of the Company, effective as of February 1, 2020 (the “Dissolution Date”). Effective as of the Dissolution Date, the Company will cease its business operations and shall continue for the sole purpose of winding up its business affairs. The last publication of Motorcycle Consumer News was distributed (shipped) on January 17, 2020, and the last publication of Auto Restorer was distributed (shipped) on January 17, 2020. Subscription payments for future issues paid by credit card or check after the Dissolution Date will not be processed. If you paid for future subscriptions by check and the check has not been drawn against your bank account as of this notice, the check has been or will be destroyed by the Company. If you otherwise paid for future publications in advance, you may submit a claim for the value of the issues you will not receive in accordance with the below instructions.
Please be further advised that the Company has insufficient assets to satisfy all of its liabilities. Upon the conclusion of the wind-up process, creditors will receive a pro rata distribution of available assets, if any, to satisfy claims submitted in accordance with the following:
1. If you believe that the Company owes you money, you must submit a final invoice or claim for any liability through the Dissolution Date in writing and include the claim amount, basis for the claim, origination date, proof of payment if a subscription claim (e.g. copy of front and back of cancelled check; as well as other data mentioned here), and documentation evidencing the basis of the claim.
2. The deadline for submitting claims is March 9, 2020.
3. Any claims that are not received by the Company on or prior to March 9, 2020 may not receive a distribution from the assets of the Company, to the extent such distribution is made.
4. All claim submissions must be sent to: Lumina Media, 640 Avis Drive, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, Attn: Lumina Claims Desk.
Dated: February 1, 2020
Lumina Media, LLC
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The magazine had been around for 30 years without ads. The reality is that the quality of the magazine had been declining. I started subscribing for he how-to articles by Larry Lyles and Jeff Lilly. The last year or so has been a couple of car features and worthless stuff like "Car Spotting". The how-to articles were things like "How to do a half-fast resto of a farm truck" and stuff like that. And HOW many issues does it take to show how to rebuild a CCC Qjet??? Still sorry to see it go, but
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You kill me. I grew around lowriders. Killin me..🤣🤣
Umm can I make a joke about what's up front?
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I know that I am super late to this thread. PUBLISHED magazines are a totally different ball game. It's like vinyl records to digital music. Maybe I don't want to get on my damn phone or computer. Maybe I want to sit and read and digest what I just read in my hands. This internet world is the death of humanity. 🌪️
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Diego - just a quick question for you (and feel free to PM me if you don't want to answer in the open forum), are you the guy that took over the final page of MCR when Tom Shaw passed away? If so, I'm glad to hear you're still writing and following along with the Olds crowd.
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A real shame.
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Diego - just a quick question for you (and feel free to PM me if you don't want to answer in the open forum), are you the guy that took over the final page of MCR when Tom Shaw passed away? If so, I'm glad to hear you're still writing and following along with the Olds crowd.
This reminds me to renew our Turning Wheels subscription (Studebaker semi monthly)
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