[DeTomaso] NPC: Automotive Journalism Humor

[Rob Dumoulin]

Ditto here. I started subscribing to R&T in the early 80s and drop them
around 2004. Picked up a year of C&D a few years later but let it lapse for
the same reasons.

Now it's just First Freedom and Popular Mechanics.

Rob DuMoulin
904.476.8744
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:10 PM, <cengles at cox.net> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
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   Ditto here. I started subscribing to R&T in the early 80s and drop them
   around 2004. Picked up a year of C&D a few years later but let it lapse
   for the same reasons.
   Now it's just First Freedom and Popular Mechanics.

   Rob DuMoulin
   904.476.8744
   [1]rob at dumoulins.net
   [2]www.kbsi.co
   [3]http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-dumoulin/0/1b6/58
   On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:10 PM, <[4]cengles at cox.net> wrote:

     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:[5]detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of
     [6]MikeLDrew at aol.com
     Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 12:56 AM
     To: [7]cengles at cox.net; [8]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

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