Another thread had me wondering, the staff of GRM must have come up with some ideas for spin-off titles over the years before Classic Motorsports. Fess up guys and gals, how long did you debate Miata Motorsports?
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March 10, 2010 4:53 p.m. pinchvalve UberDork
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March 10, 2010 5:07 p.m. John Brown MegaDork
Quasi Mofosports? For unfinished projects!
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March 10, 2010 5:50 p.m. Keith PowerDork
Wasn't Classic an existing magazine that was welcomed into the Motorsport Marketing fold?
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March 10, 2010 6:19 p.m. midknight Reader
I thought it was a mag about british cars that was renamed Classic Motorsports.
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March 10, 2010 6:56 p.m. JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
midknight wrote:
I thought it was a mag about british cars that was renamed Classic Motorsports.
More specifically, it was British Car magazine that became Classic Motorsports. Originally we were going to call it Classic Autosport, which we all agreed was an awesome title. Unfortunately, Autosport magazine in the UK thought it was an awesome title first, and told us politely but firmly that it wasn't to be.
And that was pretty much our first bigtime foray into publishing anything other than GRM. Back in the CMC days that organization had a newsletter, but it was usually 16 pages of newsprint, and only went to CMC members, so it wasn't like a "real" magazine.
We also ran a short-lived extreme wrestling league, a charitable organization that outfitted trailers to make fudge for blind people, and the XFL, but none of those worked out very well.
But, yeah, there's always ideas and opportunities floating around.
jg
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March 10, 2010 7:57 p.m. P71 UltraDork
Bring back the XFL!!!
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March 10, 2010 8:01 p.m. JtspellS New Reader
Mazda motorsport monthly, with some E30's too!
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March 11, 2010 2:15 a.m. Wally PowerDork
Sean Connery said:
Dolly Parton
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March 11, 2010 10:07 a.m. Dr. Hess PowerDork
JG, you could have just waited six months and bought the English mag, Autosports, for $35 and a twelve pack of beer, the way the English economy and the mag business seems to be going.
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March 11, 2010 10:24 a.m. Adrian_Thompson HalfDork
Dr. Hess wrote:
JG, you could have just waited six months and bought the English mag, Autosports, for $35 and a twelve pack of beer, the way the English economy and the mag business seems to be going.
That's funny.
My biggest problem with English Magazines is there is no discount for a subscription, in many cases you pay more for a magazine as you pay for delivery too. I'm not just talking about if you live overseas, but in the country too.
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March 11, 2010 10:42 a.m. Strizzo SuperDork
$45 per year! and only 5 issues. excellent mag but thats outrageous
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March 11, 2010 10:57 a.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
Wally wrote:
Sean Connery said:
Dolly Parton
"I'll take The Rapist for $400, pig."
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March 11, 2010 10:58 a.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
Strizzo wrote:
$45 per year! and only 5 issues. excellent mag but thats outrageous
Thats like... 1 + 7 - .5 / 0 ... ... A million dollars an issue!?
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March 11, 2010 10:58 a.m. BoxheadTim HalfDork
Adrian_Thompson wrote:
Dr. Hess wrote:
JG, you could have just waited six months and bought the English mag, Autosports, for $35 and a twelve pack of beer, the way the English economy and the mag business seems to be going.
That's funny.
My biggest problem with English Magazines is there is no discount for a subscription, in many cases you pay more for a magazine as you pay for delivery too. I'm not just talking about if you live overseas, but in the country too.
Not the ones I'm subscribing to (well, Practical Performance Car mostly). The discount however is pretty minimal in country. And the subscription cost almost doubles to GBP80/year if I want it sent to the US. Which I do.
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March 11, 2010 11:00 a.m. integraguy HalfDork
Here's a sure fire title:
BMWs, Miatas, and bikinis.....you get the motorsports guys, plus a bit of "spillover".
No wait, make that
BMWs, Miatas, bikinis and beer
a sure seller.
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March 11, 2010 11:04 a.m. Dr. Hess PowerDork
Here's one: Auto-X.
