Will Eisner, illustration and comic book legend (the most prestigious award in comics is named for him!) was a Corporal in WW2, and one of the things he was doing, was the ' Army Motors' magazine

You might recognize Connie from the PS Magazine that Eisner did for the Army through the Korean and Vietnam wars https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/04/will-eisner-originator-of-graphic-novel.html

You can enjoy this whole issue of Army Motors on https://radionerds.com/images/f/f5/Army_Motors_V5_N4_July_1944.pdf where there are 52 issues of AM! 

Lots of issues of PS also https://psmag.radionerds.com/index.php/191

their website has a lot of other cool stuff, including 

I didn't know Heavy Metal magazine was an illustration magazine.. but saw a lot of them at Comic Con this year... this is one sweet cover

in the swap meet at the LA Roadsters show today, at the Pomona Fairplex, I came across 3 full sets of Hot Rod magazine... this booth had one on hand, plus some other cool stuff! The (ASKING) going rate for a complete set is 1k. No one I talked to had a buyer yet

these binders are just a display sample to grab the passerby's attention. The rest were in the trailer 

Hot Rod magazines entire run of print magazines are online in a flip format

  https://www.hotrod.com/magazines/hot-rod/3169

Jim assembled a nearly complete collection of Hot Rod magazines, from the 1st, to 2014. A couple months ago, he put it up for sale, but of course, didn't say how much he was asking. No one ever does.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=9518539754858051&set=pcb.1016298887200864

I collected nearly all the regulars from mid 1949 and didn't stop holding onto them until about 2019 or so. The quality drastically fell off around 2015 or so. From 2004 to 2014 it was really fun. 

In 1965 the CA Division of Highways allocated $100K and built Mrs. Orcutt a 4 mile driveway to the nearest road, arrow straight... Car And Driver found it. Used it for trying to achieve 200 mph.

Just like that, Mrs. Orcutt’s driveway was catapulted into the automotive history books in June of 1984 through actions you definitely couldn’t get away with today.

https://www.theautopian.com/americas-200-mph-driveway-is-currently-rotting-in-the-desert/

great old cover of Drag Times, and Drag Racer 1959

https://competitionplus.com/drag-rags-1959-part-2-how-the-smokers-beat-the-fuel-ban/

https://competitionplus.com/drag-rags-1959-part-2-how-the-smokers-beat-the-fuel-ban/

SEMA has announced its industry-leading SEMA Magazine is now available to everyone for free in a digital format ( I have not seen a single issue of this while at SEMA this past week)

https://sema.secure.darwin.cx/L4NLVGSS

https://www.sema.org/news-media/enews/2024/45/announced-2024-show-sema-magazine-now-available-everyone-free-digital/-24ss

Whatever happened to Automobile Quarterly? And why is everyone trying to replicate it, when it failed in 2012? If that, which was highly regarded, failed, then why are all the rest of the magazine companies going to 1/4erly publications?

 On Ebay, the going rate is about 2 dollars apiece, but the shipping is expensive. About half the cost of purchasing a bulk amount of books on Ebay is shipping.

If you ever wanted to read them, you're not alone, obviously a LOT of people loved Automobile Quarterly, collected them, and now? Find they have a shelf full that they will never look at again. Like most magazines, it's one and done.

I guess that's why so many people go to libraries, instead of buying books. Rarely does anyone re read a biography for example. And re read a magazine? Not likely. 

I can tell you that I've got boxes of magazines, and likely won't ever have time to look through them again, but, I have the goal of reading through the 1949-69 Hot Rods, the entire collection of Muscle Car Review (thank you Mike B!), Rodder's Journal, Hagertys, Maxim, Razor (really good but unheard of), and FHM. 

For the past 5 years or so, I've only kept Rodder's Journal, and Hagertys. I gave up on some, and some gave up on publishing. Automobile, Car Craft, Motor Trend Classic -  they all quit. Road and Track, Car and Driver? Rarely have anything interesting, it's always about Porsches, Ferrari, etc test driving new cars... who's buying a new car every month? Seems overkill when people only buy a new car every 4 to 6 years. 

So, does it make sense to buy a collection of Automobile Quarterly? I guess only if you then donate them to a museum library? It's not like you'll ever read them twice, I suppose if you can get them cheap enough, that you can sell them on Ebay for the same price? 

The first cover of Four Wheeler Magazine had this photo, and it's so good, and has such and interesting story, they used it again on their 60th anniversary issue and dove into the story

Aileen Maxwell was the photographer, and the location is Black Bear Pass overlooking Telluride Colorado. 

That trail has been around for off roaders for more than 6 decades, but the local sheriff is fed up with the tourists, so he's shutting that down https://www.motortrend.com/news/1508-sheriff-calls-for-closure-of-black-bear-pass-after-latest-accident/

I think I needed to include that info, but that isn't what this post is about... it's about how a passenger along for the ride took a great photo, and a magazine recognized how cool it was, and began it's long run showcasing how incredible the off roading experience is. 

She purchased this 63 Jeep in 1964, this is her with it in 2010, at age 95, after it was restored

Aileen and her husband were instrumental in starting a Four Corners Jeep Club and photographing the scenic Four Corners area. Aileen was secretary and later president of the club.

 
In 1962, the Four Wheeler Magazine was just being published and Aileen’s picture of the Four Corners Jeep Club driving down Black Bear Pass was chosen as their first cover. 

She eventually had 11 cover pictures and 4 travel stories featured in the Four Wheeler Magazine.

The last time she "jeeped" over Elephant Hill, she was 98 years old. She lived to be 106

https://www.thecortezchronicles.com/post/aileen-maxwell-to-celebrate-106th-birthday-october-22nd

A much more lengthy version of this story, and a lot more info on Aileen's photography and their use in the Four Wheeler Magazine are in the Feb 2022 issue 

Ford fans can now access Ford Times from 1964-1981 via the Heritage Vault.

 

https://fordauthority.com/2024/04/ford-times-magazines-become-public-via-ford-heritage-vault/

Lowrider magazine died in 2019. But now, Dr. Denise Sandoval, a university professor of Chicana/o studies, has partnered with MotorTrend magazines to make an online digital issue of Lowrider magazine by women, for women, for the obvious publicity, and to champion a cause.

Dr. Sandoval shared how it was a true passion project working on this all-women issue of Lowrider magazine. 

With lowriding popularity at an all-time high, combined with the rise of car clubs exclusively for women members and car clubs led by women, 2024 felt like the perfect moment to spotlight the women who haven’t always received recognition but who have impacted lowrider culture.

This limited-edition revival highlights the women behind the wheel who have fought for their place as drivers, builders, mechanics, painters and welders in a car community few women ever are interested in.

To access the digital version of the issue: https://www.motortrend.com/plus/magazines/lowrider-special-edition-2024/issue/652907

https://northcountrynow.com/premium/brandpoint/stories/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-remaking-of-lowrider-magazine,230375

https://www.motortrend.com/lowrider/

the most obvious thing they forgot, was to remove the mustache from the Lowrider Magazine logo, 

It's pretty cool that some comanies have put the entire archive of their magazines online. I just learned that Mopar Collectors Guide has. (Hot Rod announced they had, and a decade ago Marvel put all their past comic books online)

 

https://moparcollectorsguide.com/mcgnewcart/2024-digital-login-page-settings/

the new editor-in-chief of Road & Track deleted a well-respected journalist's 5,000-word article about power and wealth in Formula 1 that was briefly published online.

Kate Wagner attended the United States Grand Prix in Austin last October. 

Then Wagner wrote the article, "Behind F1's Velvet Curtain," a compelling scene report. It examines how the obscene amounts of money flowing through F1 can warp reality, as well as the propagandistic way F1 is covered by subservient press corps.

Only hours after the story was published, it was removed from the Road & Track website. 

There was no explanation to readers as to why a 5,000-word feature suddenly vanished. 

It's in the archives, here https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain

The subtitle is "If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever."

Yup, that hooked me, now I've got to read that article

Karin "Jan" Smithers, best known for playing Bailey on WKRP in Cincinnati, was discovered when a Newsweek photographer took a photo of high school senior models on a motorcycle

This was the photo that started it all for Karin Jan Smithers, in Woodland Hills, CA in 1966. 

It took the assistance of half a dozen people and months of dead ends to track down "Jan" Smithers, by far the most famous of the six teenagers Newsweek profiled in 1966. She chose Jan as her Hollywood fame name

After appearing on the cover of Newsweek's teen issue—blond, sun-kissed, seated on a motorcycle and flashing a killer smile—Smithers and her mother soon got all kinds of calls from "many, many" Hollywood agents hoping to represent her, and she decided it might be interesting to do acting. Jan and her mother went to meet some Hollywood agents but Jan was always interested in Art. She opted for Choinard Art Institute. A little later on she decided to pursue acting.

She then was on the back page of Hot Rod Magazine (see why I'm posting about her?!) of March 1967

same ad ran in Motor Trend Aug 67

 and from there, Jan’s family was contacted by Hollywood agents and modeling reps. Work in TV began in 1973 and continued until 1987, with stops on The Love Boat, Starsky & Hutch, Murder, She Wrote, and Mike Hammer. She spent ten years married to James Brolin from ‘86 to 1995

The roles of Baily and Jennifer on WKRP are likely to have been influenced by the Ginger and Mary Ann roles on Gilligan's Island

https://phscollectorcarworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/retro-flashback-feature-remembering-jan.html

https://www.instagram.com/p/CbBj8desE1q/?img_index=2

https://designyoutrust.com/2023/02/beautiful-portrait-photos-of-actress-jan-smithers-in-the-1960s-and-70s/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=745928554203039&set=a.264086655720567&paipv=0&eav=AfaGz9Kqxl4a6tm3cyFrPWNeu-PtyfsFLznjq75IpKZoA26BfjP3NOg7MtnmKf1Sss0&_rdr

I will never forget Jan Smithers’ memorable quote at Bruce Dern’s funeral in the 1966 Roger Corman classic The Wild Angels – in answer to the inquiry, 

“What is it you young people want, anyway? 

 “We want to be free…to ride our machines…without bein’ hassled... by THE MAN!”

https://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2009/06/jan-smithers-went-to-my-high-school.html

50 years later, Newsweek interviewed her about the decades and fame: https://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/27/jan-smithers-newsweek-teens-issue-457672.html

Mobil 1 might be entering the video and news realm of autoenthusiasts

Mobil 1 has teamed up with NASCAR Studios for an exclusive new series highlighting some of the more unique stories in the sport, from current and soon-to-be NASCAR Hall of Famers to overseas superstars and more.

Stay tuned as each episode of the series is unveiled on Wednesdays on the Mobil 1 YouTube channel, starting with the driver of the Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Mobil 1 Ford, Kevin Harvick and continuing with Tony Stewart, four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and current Stewart-Haas Racing co-owner.

https://loveofdriving.mobil.com/join-the-club

https://loveofdriving.mobil.com

https://mobil1fromdayone.com/mobilpromo/survey

https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialMobil1

https://www.facebook.com/Mobil1/

https://driversjournal.com/Notification/ComingSoon

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2023/11/10/original-video-series-why-we-race-presented-by-mobil-1-2

Dear Driver,

You asked to hear from Mobil 1™. Good call. Because if you love driving as much as we do, then we’ve got the club for you. The Mobil 1 DR1VRS CLUB™ is a community of passionate driving lovers from all across the country. As a member, you’ll receive early access, exclusive offers, and a subscription to The Scenic Route – an ongoing series featuring unique driving content, events, and stories handpicked just for you.

Nimbus Tidende # 222 is at the printers, and the English version is at the proofreaders, people can get a free issue - the one with the French built supercharged Nimbus and the Czech built JAP V8 motorcycle.

 email Kim in Denmark at ccc40821@gmail.com for a free issue in English

or let him know you want a subscription to the definitive Nimbus motorcycle magazine

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10230847155501274&set=gm.6448139535242262&idorvanity=688397311216542

MoToR magazine had such amazing cover art

https://www.proxibid.com/Check-the-Oil-Promotions/April-Automobilia-Online-Only-Auction/event-catalog/238399?p=15&sort=4#cnTb

more proof that there is a magazine for everything, there's this online one for helicopters and autogyros

https://docplayer.net/48684611-Winter-2013-including-gyroplanes-helicopter-life-is-the-high-life.html

Have you heard of the new magazine, Crankshaft? It was launched by the former editor-in-chief of Hemmings, Richard Lentinello,

 At 144 pages, it’s more like a softbound book than a magazine.

https://www.crankshaftmagazine.com/