[DeTomaso] NPC: Automotive Journalism Humor

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Larry,


               Hmmm.  It is the day of coincidences and great minds 
think alike.

               I, too, have dropped my decades long subscriptions to R&T 
and C&D because of their descent into puerile writing.   I quit R&T when 
Peter Egan finished his last regular column.  For current reading, 
Grassroots Motorsports is a good solid publication for people that know 
enough about cars to be disappointed with what the mainstream mags have 
become.  GM's writing is not as good the old standards of R&T/C&D, but 
it is *honest* writing done by people that know cars, tools, driving and 
repairing sports cars.  My opinion.


                          Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles



On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Larry - Ohio Time wrote:

> Car & Driver was the only publication I read from cover to cover every 
> month
> from '65 till around 95. The last years I found myself reading less 
> and less
> till I got to the point of not renewing my subscription. I sill enjoy 
> going
> back to re-read the old issues.
> Car art by words.
>
>
>
> Larry (Popular Mech too) - Cleveland
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of
> MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 12:56 AM
> To: cengles at cox.net; detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Automotive Journalism Humor
>
> Chuck,
>
> Brilliant stuff.
>
> To see just how far the standards of American automotive journalism 
> have plunged, pick up the August 1971 issue of Car and Driver, where 
> the Pantera was introduced to the USA for the first time.   I was 
> reading that issue in bed last night, and was bowled over at the 
> outstanding prose contained therein.   Not just one, but every single 
> writer in that magazine had a
> marvelous gift for expression, writing with a style and precision that 
> would be completely foreign to virtually all writers today.
>
> Sad....
>
> Mike