Which is your favorite muscle car magazine and why?

Muscle Car Review, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Car Craft, others?

 

I recently subscribed to Hemmings, for their mix of muscle car profiles, tech tips and improved editorial content. They can lose the die-cast cars, and vintage race articles and give more coverage to current car shows and swap meets. And... they would make a lot of people on this board very happy if they would profile a pre- '68 Cutlass!

 

HMM hands down. Love the car mix and writing.

 

If you asked me a couple years ago, I might have said HMM. But I let my subsription lapse. I'll buy the occasional issue if I find out there's a story on a car I especially like within. Usually there's not. Kudos to them anyway for giving the more obscure cars some attention, and for trying at least to limit the bullsh*t and hype.

 

HMM before Terry McGean was named editor. I couldnt wait for the next issue to arrive. Now it gets tossed aside. I will not be renewing it.

 

I like Car Craft simply because of the lower budget builds and tech articles. I also enjoy HMM and agree I can do without the die-cast articles. Very rarely Ill read Popular Hot Rodding, I don't care for every car they feature or build requiring 18 inch or larger wheels. Hot Rod is another I read and subscribe to, that may change if they don't lay of the "money is no object" builds.

 

just let my musclecar review subscription lapse

too many clones passed off as authentic

besides,they dissed BOP

 

Probably Musclecar Enthusiast. HMM has a pretty good cross-section of interesting rides but the editorials are pretty predictable. Plus, Musclecar Enthusiast covers racing side better. Just opinion...

 

Old national geographics magazines have the best car ads.
I'm just not interested in reading about 69 Camaro's and 70 Chevelles anymore, I do like articles about some of the less popular cars. Me and my pals read about most of them in the 70's and we debated which one we'll buy when we got our licences. I had car craft for a year or two and most of it was worth reading but I never renewed it.
My 2 c

 

None of the above. HMM has continually published incorrect info and I finally dropped it several years ago. The original MCR was great, until Petersen (or EMAP, or Primedia, or whoever they are now) bought it and killed it. I've been a subscriber to Hot Rod since 1971, but the recent redesign has turned it into a coffee table book with glossy pictures but little hard info. Camaro Craft is unchanged. Monthly Chevy engine build, a half dozen Chevy car features, etc.

While not a muscle car magazine, I really like Auto Restorer. Lots of good hands-on, how-to info.

The Buckaroo Publishing magazines were also really good with lots of photos of the cars being built, but they went belly-up last year.

 

I like muscle car enthusiast and hemming's, I know they are not always accurate and sometimes painfully so, but heck I've driven oldsmobiles since the late 70's and I am still learning about my car. I actaully appreciate some of the cars Hemming's features, even though some of those cars I disliked then and still do today - others I'm learning to appreciate as time goes by. I think they do a pretty good job considering the passionate audience they have, amount of cars they have to try to feature, and the market they must reach to make money.

 

hands-down:

"autorestorer"

great articles and how to's and best of all they have no adverts like the other rags, just the meat.

no adverts = independance and objectivity...

 

Well, no advertisements except for the Eastwood product placement in every article by Larry Lyles...

 

true, but you are smart and know what I mean.

 

Same here, but I would like to see more personal luxury muscle (Toronados/W-34s, Riveria GSs, 300s, Fury GTs,Mercury Madrada X-100,etc)

 

Awesome thread. I just subscribed to Auto Restorer.

 

Always liked the tech articles in car craft and then hot rod, when the author moved there a few years ago. Tech in Popular Hot Rodding hit an all time low this year with their new gal. HMM tech also equally miserable. Still get car craft because I have been reading since I was 15. Got to have something to read in the bathroom!

I looked at auto restorer but did not subscribe. With the endorsements above, I will give it another look.

 

1 good thing about PHR is that they do have their project OLDS, the 65 cutlass that they're doing continuous builds on.

 

Thanks for the feedback. I just subscribed to Autorestorer too.

 

My favorite magazine is Car Craft because they usually feature cheaper how to articles and usually are about cars that the everyday person can afford.

 

I was waiting for someone to mention that. Bearing in mind that the magazine guys don't really know the cars and just report what they are told, it still doesn't make the info any more accurate. I like to see and read about other makes and models too. But I have to take it all with a grain of salt. If you know their inaccuracies with what you *do* know, then you can pretty well figure the inaccuracies are there with what you don't know!

 

My choice is Musclecar Enthusiast. I find Car Craft and Hot Rod are way too technical and out of touch for us commoners.

 

I'm in agreement with Joe P. The current crop aren't anywhere near the glory years. When Tom Shaw was editor of MCR, it was fine. Now he's freelancing and editing Mustang Enthusiast.

My favorite magazine is Collectible Automobile. I have every issue since I found the first one when I was 12.

 

???

Too technical??

Hot Rod has turned into a bunch of glossy pictures of high-dollar cars that were built with a checkbook!

 

My favorite muscle car magazine is my '69 Chassis Service Manual.
Great info and only $5.00 when printed in '69.
What a deal!

 

Car Craft for all of the same reasons as everyone else who mentioned it.

I do enjoy Hemmings Motor News, but I don't subscribe, but love to learn a little something about all things automotive.

 

One of my hobbies is building model cars, and I really like Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Motor News, and other dedicated muscle car magazines because they have some of the best pictures of rare muscle cars for different ideas. I have found that Hemmings Muscle Machines has the best in depth pictures of all.

 

Joe...that's what I meant. Their articles are way out of my league of modifcations.

 

My Question is: Will a 1965 starfire fan shroud, interchange with a 1966 Starfire! if they are both 425?

 

Your question is way off topic and should be posted elsewhere, but:
My parts book information says the the '65 would have a "ring" and the '66 would have a "shroud", so I would say no.

 

HMM all the way for me. Every issue has a good variety of old muscle.