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  • Raze

    Aug. 3, 2009 7:27 a.m. Raze Reader

    4cylndrfury wrote:

    mad_machine wrote:

    makes me wish the OLD sport compact car.

    double + eleventy billion

    I REAAAALLLLLY looked forward to the weeks where both a new GRM and a new SCC were on the newstand at the same time. When my wife and I were planning our wedding, she would drag me to a big box bookseller, and we would sit and drink coffee and she would sit down with 10 wedding mags and I would read my 2...GRM and SCC, and she couldnt understand why I didnt get more like she did. She would get thru all 10 before I closed my first, and then she would have to sit there and make sour faces while I read the other. When she asked why I was buying those 2 at the end of our trip to the store, and I never got any others, the only answer I had was "what other ones are there?"

    I've done this before, I let my wife run wild in the bookstore, I'd grab a GRM (mine hadn't arrived yet) and sit with a coffee. An hour and a half later she'd find me and ask if I was still reading the same magazine, and I'd tell her I was only halfway done. I'd then buy it, she'd ask why I was buying a mag I had a subscription to, and I'd say "because once it starts, it cannot be stopped, and that the other one will go to my buddies house" :)

  • Jensenman

    Aug. 3, 2009 7:32 a.m. Jensenman MegaDork

    Several years ago, I had decided it was time to quit racing motorcycles before I balled myself up trying to keep up with 19 year olds. Damn kids.

    I was sniffing around for something to take the place of dirt biking. A bud of mine dropped a GRM off at my house; it just happened to be the 'Engine Swaps' issue with the Ro Spit on the cover. All was lost after that. I have to agree, the mag's information far surpasses anything that, say, C&D or R&T or etc have ever done. Keep up the good work!

  • Apexcarver

    Aug. 3, 2009 12:42 p.m. Apexcarver UltraDork

    I remember my first GRM. I happened across it at Barnes and Noble. The Zero to Hero or something like that article about getting into racing. It had a golf GTI on the cover IIRC. Got me hook line and sinker. GRM made me realize just how bad my other magazines were (mustang mags, 5.0, MM&FF, C&D, R&T) and gradually they looked so poor in comparison I dropped the subs to all of them.

  • Rusty_Rabbit84

    Aug. 3, 2009 1:17 p.m. Rusty_Rabbit84 HalfDork

    yes. i must give GRM props on building and maintaining my new addiction. This is all i do now at work and love it! Hey, there are worse things to be addicted to...

  • David S. Wallens

    Aug. 9, 2009 5:51 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director

    Thanks for all of the kind words. We do appreciate it. I have been working on the 2010 editorial calendars all weekend. More goodness to come.

  • poopshovel

    Aug. 11, 2009 2:48 p.m. poopshovel SuperDork

    Yup. Funny reading the stories of how folks got introduced to the mag.

    My brother and I decided to buy a cheap honda and throw nitrous at it a few years ago, with plans of eventually running it in One Lap. I told a female co-worker about the plan when I was driving said P.O.S. honda to and from work every day. She mentioned that her husband played around with hondas. We eventually met and hit it off. After 5 minutes he says "Man, you really need to look into the Grassroots Motorsports Challenge thing." Sends a bunch of challenge issues to me via his wife at work. I remember thinking "Holy crap, this isn't just a bunch of pictures of whores spread out on cars and a list of all the high dollar garbage the owner paid someone else to put on said car."

    Thanks again for keeping it real, honkeys. Every time I see that "other" mag in my bathroom now, I want to throw up knowing I spent money on it. I read a couple more "articles," and there are GLARING grammatical errors to boot! I'll post some quotes here if I can remember to. Funny stuff. It's also worth mentioning that this mag's "parent" mag has been in the business since the beginning of time.

  • Sept. 1, 2009 9:42 a.m. redzcstandardhatch New Reader

    GRM has changed my life, and given meaning to the idiotic way we cheaply built cars-we finally had a purpose-the challenge!

    when gutty was featured last year, i thought i'd died and gone to heaven.

    i love GRM. i cant put down the new issue until my eyes hurt. my other car (red EF hatchback) was just featured in super street (not sure why), and i didnt even read that whole magazine. haha

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