Thread: Do you save your magazines?

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Summit catalogs and Speedway catalogs. I really don't buy magazines. I had a subscription to MT for a few years for some reason, I still have all of them, and some havn't even been flipped thru. keep them around for no real reason, but there in magazine racks...

Mine always end up in the garage and when everyone has looked through them I give them to one of the kids who stop by for a visit.... Gotta get them young-uns thinkin' Hot Rod!!!!

Most magazines today are more than half full of ads. Then the tech articles (if you can even find one) are ad biased too. I used to subscribe to them all. They all went in the dumpster when the dentist office & VA stopped wanting them. I still get Street Rodder but only because it was a Christmas gift (they must have paid for 10 years worth!) & those go in the trash after a few months.

The only one I subscribe to & save every copy is The Rodders Journal.

I used to save them as a source of reference, but the advent of the web/internet has made that practice obsolete. As a source of information and reference material, the internet is just as good or better, doesn't require any shelf space, and silverfish don't eat it.

Bob

I've got about a gazillion. Want some?

I have 30 years of streetrodder and Rod action in the shed sealed in plastic boxes.

I use a single edge razor blade to cut out the pages of relevant articles, staple together and then file them in a file cabinet under different subjects.

i give mine to a local furture kid hotrodder.

Originally Posted by TooMany2count

By putting them in a box & mailing them overseas to the Military.
If there is something I think I may want to save I copy it & put it in a folder.
Not many in there though.
I had mags that were from the 70's to present, decided the best thing for them were to bring more smiles to our guys & gals overseas....joe

I believe USPS will pay for this. I have been meaning to look into it before tossing all mine, but my collection also goes back to only about 2000 . I remember reading my dad's old ones that he still has though..

My mother was a very fine woman. She and I were very close, BUT ...... when she put my collection of very early "Hot Rod" magazines (which dated back to the first editions) out on the curb for the annual "Boy Scout Scrap Paper Drive" that put a big strain on our relationship.

If that wasn't enough, she threw in one of the small magazines that had pictures of our old roadster in it.

I stomped into her house just about to cry and asked her why she did that. She answered "Oh, the things were old as the hills so what good were they?"

That was about fifty years ago and I'm still mad about it.

There are some things that women just don't understand. (I'm not talking about you, Barb).


Jim

Originally Posted by Big Tracks

My mother was a very fine woman. She and I were very close, BUT ...... when she put my collection of very early "Hot Rod" magazines (which dated back to the first editions) out on the curb for the annual "Boy Scout Scrap Paper Drive" that put a big strain on our relationship.

If that wasn't enough, she threw in one of the small magazines that had pictures of our old roadster in it.

I stomped into her house just about to cry and asked her why she did that. She answered "Oh, the things were old as the hills so what good were they?"

That was about fifty years ago and I'm still mad about it.

There are some things that women just don't understand. (I'm not talking about you, Barb).


Jim

I actually had Vol 1, No 1 of Hot Rod - and when I got married, it went to the landfill (I'm may be ancient, but not so much so that I bought it from the newsstand).

My mom did other "wrong" things like trash my Lionel train set, but that's for another thread

I had tons of playboys. Way to many. I cut out the picture, jokes and whatnot and sealed them in plastic. For some reason, I still look at them. I'll give them to the grandson when he turns 18.

I keep the ones that have good pics and articles I like, And i have all the original American Rodders and the buckaroo ones, I have most of the Rodders Journals including the first one. I have saved everyone we have had cars we worked on, Someday my son can look back and see what I did.

My wife showed me how to make a electronic folder on our computer. Now I just scan what ever I want to save and file it in the folder I have named that is relevant. It sure beats going threw stacks and stacks of magazines.
And if I can do it anybody can.
Ken

Wow, you all have some great tips - and some very sad magazine loss stories.
I was going to suggest the same thing as Wayne Gilchrist, but I think that TooMany2count actually has the better method. It's a lot easier, and whether you agree with them being sent or not, those guys in the service deserve everything we can do to make their lives a little better.