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Left Foot Functioning
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Duncan, OK
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Best Magazine for '69-'72's ?
I'd like to hear ya'll's opinions on the magazine(s) that give the best coverage of our trucks.
The coverage on this board is really great, but I don't have a computer in the "reading room" yet... Thanks...SSOW ![]() |
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Moore, Ok
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Custom Classic Trucks is about the best that I'm aware of.
http://www.customclassictrucks.com/
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: North Dakota
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I used to get Chevy Truck (I think thats all it was called) but I think they quit or something (can't remeber). That was a good mag though (there were 67-72 stuff in it all the time.
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Gotta Startem Early
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Amarillo, TX, USA
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I like Classic Trucks a little more than Custom Classic Trucks, but they are both good mags covering many 67-72's plus other trucks that should incite new ideas
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67-72 Addict!
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: The TAX State!
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I have a subscription to Classic and Custom Classic Trucks. Both always have good coverage but I like Custom Classic better!
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary, Alberta,Canada
Posts: 1,595
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I know what your thinking.......I have ESPN. ![]() Sometimes it's easier to do things the hard way. ![]() Fesler Built 1968 Chevy C10....Must resist the urge to mess with it!! ![]() ![]() |
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Progress = 0%
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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I subscribe to Classic Trucks and am overall pleased with it.
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Watch out for your cornhole !
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Location: Azle, Texas
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Like was said above, the internet is the only place I can get my tech article kicks. I go to a hot rod board that is nothing but hundreds of new hard core tech posts every day. Stuff like gas welding patch panels, or building you own frames. Every since I found that site, I haven't wanted many magazines. By the way, the best car magazine in the world is The Rodder's Journal. The 12 dollar cover price scares folks off though. It's a shame, because I'd pay twice that for the magazine, it's that good.
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Thats the Hillbilly way
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Torrance,Ca
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Watch out for your cornhole !
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Location: Azle, Texas
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They're all lame to me.
I want to see some nuts and bolts. Most of the cool trucks that are featured don't have any pertinant information in the text. The whole article will go on about how his grandad found the truck and passed it down through the generations and Joe Bob drove it through high school...blah, blah, blah. I want to see how he modified that bumper to fit, or that later model brake booster to fit, or those type of things. I buy the magazine for the trucks, not the human intrest articles.
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Left Foot Functioning
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Duncan, OK
Posts: 348
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Tech Mags - Endangered Species
Tx - Excellent point, and exactly what I was afraid of. Yeah, it will be good to see finished products for ideas of what to do (or not do), but I'm like you - I want to know more about how it was done and how well it works than how many coats of paint or previous owners it has.
My theory? An overabundance of lawyers. The more how-to articles the mags write, the more exposed they are to some nitwit doing it the wrong way to the point of damage or injury - then hooking up with a shyster to sue the pants off of someone to pay for the nitwit's stupidity. I've subscribed to HR, PHR, 4WLR, 4WOR, and various others for many years, and I've seen a steady decline in the tech content of these publications, and I don't believe its all because the audience has changed their tastes. When the magazines now do a how-to, all they do is hire a custom shop to do the work and take pictures. Guess the shops have liablility insurance anyway. I guess, in a way, you could consider this board a replacement for that magazine content, or perhaps an evolution of it enabled by internet technology. Who would have guessed 20 years ago that thousands of shade-tree mechanics would be swapping ideas, advice, and pictures whilst separated by thousands of miles? Oh well, off the soapbox. I'll pick one (for the pictures) based on the above advice and stick with this board for how-to advice. Thanks for the responses, and keep the shiny side up...SSOW ![]() |
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: NB
Posts: 3,367
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Stick to the internet and this board! Mag's are for
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Pasadena, CA
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I think Classic Truck is a little better myself. Custom Classic seems like they reprint alot of stuff I see in other magazines. Has anyone seen the new webrodder.com webpage? Lots of great how-to articles on there.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lake Placid, Florida
Posts: 930
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www.classictrucksweb.com
www.streetrodbuilder.com In my opinion way more classic trucks than custom classic trucks. I agree about the tech articles. The only mag that I have seen that does a good job is Street Rod Builder. It has step by step processes usually with color pics for each. It is a bit more expensive than the rest but by far the best auto mag I have ever bought. Last edited by chevytruckfan; 06-25-2004 at 02:02 PM. |
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Location: Benton, AR "The Heart of Arkansas"
Posts: 10,880
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Classic Trucks seems to favor the 67-72's, more than Custom Classic Trucks. Truck Builder has a series going on a '67-72, also. Lots of color pix in Truck Builder.
Chevy Truck magazine was a Petersen publication, like Custom Classic Trucks was. At some time, I'm betting that one of them will merge with the other and we'll have Classic Custom Classic Truck magazine. Sport Truck and Truckin' both have features from time to time for our trucks. Since I can't always have a computer in my truck, I have to refer to the magazines, but this message board format is the the best one I know of for our 67-72's.
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SLOW BUT SURE,BUT CLOSER
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: eleanor wv usa
Posts: 3,093
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Get Classic and Custom Classic, like Classic better. But for overall tech Chevy Hi- Po, Car Craft and Chevy Rumble. Doug Marion and Jeff Smith are great with their stories.
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PROJECT 7DEUCE
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Location: GRANTS PASS OR
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I like street truck's because it cater's to everything and BMC really love's these truck..
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: daytonabeach
Posts: 22,956
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" HIGH TIMES" is a good magizine for gettin ideas from
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: north of Phx AZ about 30 miles
Posts: 698
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Try Truck Builder. I have only found last months here in Phoenix. I think it is just starting its publication and is not everywhere yet. I saw it in the book store and it had an article on a rebuild of a GM 12 bolt, just had to get it. It seems pretty good on the tech articles, but then again I have only read this one edition. I will probably buy it next month just to see.
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