Get Your Ride Famous

As I'm sure many of you know, we feature a few of our reader's rides in each issue. We also feature one each week on the website's home page. Here are some quick tips on how to get in on this.

1. Have a cool car. A story behind the car always helps.
2. Go to your profile on this site, click on your "garage" and create a profile for your ride.
3. High-res photos are needed.
4. Votes on your car make you much more visible to our searches.
5. Updating info and news on your car from time to time helps you stand out, too.

It's that easy. Do it and get ultimate bragging rights over your friends.

What if my car is already a legend in its own right? Well, perhaps its sudden disappearance and reclusiveness has added to that over the years....

Either way, I vote for aussiemg's "Clifford" the big daft red truck.

Clifford stinking rules.

That is all

I have the friggin fastest Kia in auto-x..... how can it possibly stand out any more?

So not only do we have to maintain a build thread on our rad rides, we have to build and maintain a garage post as well?

Yeah, how about you guys pay attention to the build threads forum since that is where most of the effort is placed by your readers.

The last time I did this I got hate mail.

ClifFord rules in Mongo's shadow

8MP camera on a Galaxy SIII good enough quality yet?

My car will be back on the road in a couple of weeks.

turboswede wrote: So not only do we have to maintain a build thread on our rad rides, we have to build and maintain a garage post as well? Yeah, how about you guys pay attention to the build threads forum since that is where most of the effort is placed by your readers.

There's a lot of content on this site. It's easy to miss things that don't get updated often.

Every time you post an update to your car's garage profile, it gets bumped to the front of the Readers' Rides page with a thumbnail. That means the more often you post updates, the more often you get a picture on the Readers' Rides page, and the more likely someone with some power sees it.

If your project is cool enough, I don't think you need to have a bunch of updates on the garage post to be worthy of a feature; but you do have to be noticed somehow and that's a good way.

Yes, series8217 is spot on, on everything he said. We do indeed search through the Build threads as well, mostly for the "Hot Builds" section. The "Internet Hot Rod of the Month" usually comes from the Readers' Rides section of the site. We do sometimes search by how many votes a car has gotten in the Readers' Rides section to see what everyone likes and it helps the super cool builds stand out. Just trying to give anyone a hand who didn't know how it get in the mag.

In reply to EdHigginbotham:

Well the Highest Rated Reader's Ride also has one of the longest build thread's.

You know, just saying and all.

That is true. You may or may not have already been on my list for that...