Found something that I thought they gave up selling.. Good old fashioned print magazine

Tommy1234 · May 20, 2022

Well on my lunch break at work. I decided to stop into the Walgreens to buy some food. While there I went to the magazine stand of the store or the magazine aisle. I found a copy of hot rod magazine. It felt like years since I leafed through an actual magazine.

HotWheelsBurban · May 20, 2022

Tommy1234 said:
Well on my lunch break at work. I decided to stop into the Walgreens to buy some food. While there I went to the magazine stand of the store or the magazine aisle. I found a copy of hot rod magazine. It felt like years since I leafed through an actual magazine.

Yep there are still a few of them being published. I'll have to hunt that one up, looks like a good one!
I have worked in the book and magazine merchandising industry for several years. When I started, the bigger Walmarts had 40 to 56 feet of magazines, and 2 or 3 of those sections were automotive titles. After several publishers merged and bought each other out, and they pared down the titles, many magazines got discontinued.
Now, a large Walmart magazine rack is 12', and many are 8' or only 4'. Hot Rod is one of the few survivors, but oddly enough, I don't have it in any of my stores. I used to service Kroger and HEB stores, and they got it, so I'll have to check them for it. Thanks for the tip!

Tommy1234 · May 20, 2022

HotWheelsBurban said:
Yep there are still a few of them being published. I'll have to hunt that one up, looks like a good one!
I have worked in the book and magazine merchandising industry for several years. When I started, the bigger Walmarts had 40 to 56 feet of magazines, and 2 or 3 of those sections were automotive titles. After several publishers merged and bought each other out, and they pared down the titles, many magazines got discontinued.
Now, a large Walmart magazine rack is 12', and many are 8' or only 4'. Hot Rod is one of the few survivors, but oddly enough, I don't have it in any of my stores. I used to service Kroger and HEB stores, and they got it, so I'll have to check them for it. Thanks for the tip!

Reminds me I got swing by to barns and nobles

thinger2 · May 20, 2022

Ahh.. The good old days.
Buy hot rod mag and get inspired.
Take the ragged out Camaro and put Skyjackers on the back.
Run 60 series on Crager SS rims or Centerlines If you had the money.
And pizza cutters on the front.
A torker intake with a carter AFB or an Edelbrock.
And cheap headers with cherry bombs.
Buy an accell cap with a Mallory rotor just to have two different stickers to put on the back window.
A Kraco stereo with 6x9s in the back.
A mullet, a RATT tape or Motly Crue
Hack a big hole in the hood and glass on a ridicoulous Harwood scoop the size of a coffin.
If anyone wants to race tell them you cant because you are breaking in a new cam.
This is how we built the slowest most mismatched cars back in the day.
And it was awesome.
The early 80s were a blast

Tommy1234 · May 22, 2022

thinger2 said:
Ahh.. The good old days.
Buy hot rod mag and get inspired.
Take the ragged out Camaro and put Skyjackers on the back.
Run 60 series on Crager SS rims or Centerlines If you had the money.
And pizza cutters on the front.
A torker intake with a carter AFB or an Edelbrock.
And cheap headers with cherry bombs.
Buy an accell cap with a Mallory rotor just to have two different stickers to put on the back window.
A Kraco stereo with 6x9s in the back.
A mullet, a RATT tape or Motly Crue
Hack a big hole in the hood and glass on a ridicoulous Harwood scoop the size of a coffin.
If anyone wants to race tell them you cant because you are breaking in a new cam.
This is how we built the slowest most mismatched cars back in the day.
And it was awesome.
The early 80s were a blast

Ah yeah back in the younger days (pimp my ride was on the air ) . I've never. I kind of remember when I would go shopping with my folks and grab the magazines in the magazine aisle or be there most of the time while they shop.
I remember back when I was younger my dads car was a 92 Plymouth Acclaim (one car family). Being young I read magazines and stuff. I remember installing accel wires on that car. When the seat belt on the passenger front seat was worn I installed a racing harness in the most hack way (L brackets to the lower seat belt mount). When the transmission went on that car my pops went to the dodge dealership and traded it for the charger.

Tommy1234 · May 22, 2022

Pretty soon this post will become onion belt.
Gimme 5 bees for a quarter

Well if anyone has more onion belt stories or memories to share keep it up

Tommy1234 · May 22, 2022

I remember a family road trip in my dad's old Plymouth. At the time I just got my license a license junior year of highschool. And my family decided to visit my brother (mothers side) in Texas. So we printed up the driving directions off of mapquest along with an atlas and loaded up the Acclaim. It ma, pop and me driving on our way.
We met my brother (he skydives and does rigging) at an small airport in Gladewater TX. My brother had 1995 c1500 extended cab step side in white (more onion belting here sorry)

RichLo · May 22, 2022

I still try to buy a real map every time I drive beyond my comfort zone. Last time came in handy when one satellite was down (only 2 points of contact vs 3) and I needed the real map to get home at 9pm.

1998_K1500_Sub · May 22, 2022

I remember the local "News Agency", it was the store downtown (population 6500) that had a selection of newspapers, magazines, greeting cards, etc. It was a nice store. The year was 1975.

Play-Boy and similar were all in the back, up on the high shelf where the kids couldn't reach them... unless you had a tall friend. The question "Does the carpet match the drapes?" could actually be answered then. Now-a-days seems all the floors are bare.

HotWheelsBurban · May 22, 2022

Yes, I remember the"news agents" ( that's really an English term for newsstands, but has been used in the US too). Back in the 70s, before Walmarts, Target and every grocery store had lots of magazines, my Dad would go all over town for his car magazines. There was a newsstand on South Main ( not too far from where we live now!), one or two in Bellaire, and a few downtown. One of the downtown ones was in the bottom of an office building, that also had a gas station (Exxon I think) in it. Funny the things you remember after 50 years....
The one on South Main had that high counter like newsstands and pharmacies used to have, and the cigs and girlie mags were behind that counter too.

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