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  • Tim Baxter

    Sept. 17, 2009 4:18 p.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    For those who missed it, we've rolled out a couple of cool things for our upcoming 25th anniversary issue.

    First, take a look back at our very first issue, now on the site:

    http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/issue-1/

    Then, take a look at what tomorrow might hold and sign up for our first ever electronic issue:

    http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/digital/

  • Sept. 17, 2009 4:38 p.m. Nashco SuperDork

    Tried to register for the first e-ssue and got this:

    Just hit it with a hammer... If you're seeing this, something has gone terribly awry.

  • Tim Baxter

    Sept. 17, 2009 4:40 p.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    We got your registration, and have fixed the thing that caused the error. It's all good.

  • confuZion3

    Sept. 17, 2009 5:49 p.m. confuZion3 SuperDork

    Did you use a hammer?

  • Supercoupe

    Sept. 17, 2009 6:01 p.m. Supercoupe Reader

    I knew that 99.00 subscription deal was a scam..that got my money and now they go digital...shheeshh...

  • stuart in mn

    Sept. 17, 2009 6:57 p.m. stuart in mn SuperDork

    I'm trying to figure out how there were letters to the editor and tech questions in the first issue.

  • DILYSI Dave

    Sept. 17, 2009 7:05 p.m. DILYSI Dave UltimaDork

    Any way the pages on issue 1 can be made big enough to read?

  • Tim Baxter

    Sept. 17, 2009 7:06 p.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    Click 'em, Dave.

  • SupraWes

    Sept. 17, 2009 7:41 p.m. SupraWes Dork

    They are really difficult to read, even when clicked. Do I need glasses? Maybe at home on my 24" monitor it will be legible. 17" Imac=no.

  • 2002maniac

    Sept. 17, 2009 8:03 p.m. 2002maniac Reader

    SupraWes wrote:

    They are really difficult to read, even when clicked. Do I need glasses? Maybe at home on my 24" monitor it will be legible. 17" Imac=no.

    agreed. clicking them makes the page 1/3 the size of my screen. Not easy to read the smaller type.

  • Tim Baxter

    Sept. 17, 2009 8:08 p.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    Grab the PDF?

  • TJ

    Sept. 17, 2009 8:15 p.m. TJ HalfDork

    Anyone else running tires that were advertised in the first issue? On the page titled 240 fever featuring a Lotus Elan at a local autocross there is a tire ad with Yokohama A008's advertised, they are also the inside the back cover ad...I have been running those on the Mini, no longer the state of the art, but a decent tire, especially when there are not many choices in 165/70-10 except ATV's and golf carts.

  • Woody

    Sept. 17, 2009 8:42 p.m. Woody SuperDork

    Wow, I didn't realize that you could buy a new TVR in the US 25 years ago.

    Of course, not many people did....

  • suprf1y

    Sept. 17, 2009 9:16 p.m. suprf1y Reader

    stuart in mn wrote:

    I'm trying to figure out how there were letters to the editor and tech questions in the first issue.

    They just made them up, like they do now.

  • Josh

    Sept. 17, 2009 9:24 p.m. Josh HalfDork

    Tim Baxter wrote:

    Grab the PDF?

    That would work great if all you wanted to read was the Riken ad. The PDF linked to is only one page, just the back cover.

    Really cool to see what things were like back then. I get the impression from that issue that oh, say, 70% of the entrants at events back them must have been Datsun Z cars .

  • Sept. 17, 2009 10:25 p.m. 4eyes New Reader

    I used to run AOO8s on my spridget And on Panasports too... Thanks for the memories

  • 2002maniac

    Sept. 17, 2009 11:58 p.m. 2002maniac Reader

    I was two years old

  • mtn

    Sept. 18, 2009 12:07 a.m. mtn SuperDork

    Wow... I saw an advertisement for anti-sway bars... And the car used as an example was a Mustang II... I think. Someone want to confirm this for me?

  • Wally

    Sept. 18, 2009 1:44 a.m. Wally UberDork

    DILYSI Dave wrote:

    Any way the pages on issue 1 can be made big enough to read?

    Ease up on the porn for a couple days.

  • Marjorie Suddard

    Sept. 18, 2009 5:55 a.m. Marjorie Suddard General Manager

    suprf1y wrote:

    stuart in mn wrote:

    I'm trying to figure out how there were letters to the editor and tech questions in the first issue.

    They just made them up, like they do now.

    We did not! We got our friends to write them.

    FWIW, I TOLD Tim it was weird to have letters. He said people wouldn't know they could write in unless they saw them.

    What did we know? We were a couple of <25s sitting in the spare room of a rental house. (And given that, what did we have to lose?!)

    Margie

  • wayslow

    Sept. 18, 2009 7:52 a.m. wayslow New Reader

    Um, is the electronic issue only open to US residents? The drop down menu, on the form, only has states listed.

  • Tim Baxter

    Sept. 18, 2009 8:23 a.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    Josh wrote:

    Tim Baxter wrote:

    Grab the PDF?

    That would work great if all you wanted to read was the Riken ad. The PDF linked to is only one page, just the back cover.

    Fixed.

  • jstein77

    Sept. 18, 2009 8:50 a.m. jstein77 HalfDork

    That is so cool - thanks for posting it. Many, many memories in that one. Can you do number 2 also? I did the C Stock comparo article in that one.

  • Tim Baxter

    Sept. 18, 2009 8:56 a.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    Honestly, I don't think that will happen. Getting hold of a 25-year-old issue, scanning all the pages (without irreparably mangling the issue) and putting it up proved to be quite a challenge. I know it was a much larger, more difficult project than I initially thought it would be. We might, but I wouldn't expect it.

  • jcanracer

    Sept. 18, 2009 9:13 a.m. jcanracer New Reader

    I signed up immediately

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