Growing Up

Growing up I got my car fix from two places. My dad and car magazines. Starting Around 10 I couldn't read enough car magazines. I went back through my dads stash and read everything he had saved for the past 15 years from multiple magazine brands. However over time I became less and less interested in the big money exotic cars that all the magazines fixated on and began to enjoy GRM more and more. I have been trolling this forum for knowledge, mostly in the background, since about 10th grade, finally joining my senior year. Now, after bumming off my dads subscriptions for the past 13 years I have finally gotten my own! Got the shirt and everything! Time to go get some grease on it

Welcome to the club. I grew up reading my dad's magazines, too--mostly Sports Car Graphic and Road & Track from the'60s.

Mom got pissed when I found dads magazines.

They may have had cars in them...

But he also had a huge stack of woodworking magazines I read. Guess thats why I approach every woodworking project with the same approach as I use for furniture. Ever see a guy hand cut mortise and tennon joints to build a shed? Im that guy.

Still have the last 20 years of car and woodworking magazines. My daughter is six, and becoming an avid reader. I slipped grm into her backpack last week. Unfortunately she still prefers dr Seuss.

I got all my uncle's hand-me-down Mustang Monthly magazines. GRM sucked me in a few years later.

Mine came from my uncle. I still have copies of Car Life, Road and Track, Car and Driver, and Popular Hot Rodding, plus some dune buggy magazines, all from the early 60s.

N Sperlo wrote: I got all my uncle's hand-me-down Mustang Monthly magazines. GRM sucked me in a few years later.

Ha! I still have several years worth of Mustang Monthly from the early 80s.

I remember finding the occasional trashed up Playboy in the woods. Kids these days will never know that kind of joy.

In reply to Appleseed:

They don't know how good they have it with a whole world of perversion at their fingertips instead of hoping to trip over a musty damp musty magazine or worse the underwear section of the Sears catalog.

My sixth grade teacher had a foot high stack of Corvette magazines on his desk. If I finished my work I could read them. Hugely influential.

I had a paper route from age 8 to 16, so I started buying my own car magazines at the local drugstore at around 9 or 10. I think my first ones were Car Craft and Car Modeler. But by 14 I was deep into sports cars, so it was Sports Car Graphic, Road & Track, and Car and Driver. By 16 I had a subscription to Competition Press & Autoweek. (That was the sixties).

I thought this thread was a Blink-182 reference.

Anyways, I've paid for my subscriptions from my allowance for a couple of years now. C&D, because John Phillips, and R&T, because it's the second-best American car mag there is. When I move, I'm getting GRM. I promise.

I stole Road and Track, autoweek, classic motorsports, and grm from my dad and used my moolah for popular mechanics and popular science

mazdeuce wrote: My sixth grade teacher had a foot high stack of Corvette magazines on his desk. If I finished my work I could read them. Hugely influential.

My seventh grade teacher had a '73 Corvette.

Gary wrote: I had a paper route from age 8 to 16, so I started buying my own car magazines at the local drugstore at around 9 or 10. I think my first ones were Car Craft and Car Modeler. But by 14 I was deep into sports cars, so it was Sports Car Graphic, Road & Track, and Car and Driver. By 16 I had a subscription to Competition Press & Autoweek. (That was the sixties).

I had a paper route too, but it never occurred to me to buy a car magazine. In fact, I'm not even sure that I knew that there were car magazines back then. But around age nine, I started buying the Bargain News every Thursday afternoon and read every car and motorcycle ad in it, all because my friend Scott found an ad for a minibike that needed a throttle cable for $25. This weekly ritual continued until St. Craig brought forth His Holy List.

Starting about age 11 or so I would buy a Muscle, Classic and Sports Car Trader whenever they came out. Then it was Car Craft. Then Hot Rod. Then Four Wheel and Off Road. Then FourWheeler. Then Summit catalogs. Then Road and Track. Then Car and Driver. Then High Performance Pontiac. Then Motor Trend.

And then I bought my first issue of GRM and all the other ones stopped.

(I still wish I could get Muscle, Classic and Sports Car Traders though )