Re: Car & Parts Out of Business

Posted by BH On 2010/9/3 21:58:12

acolds -

Hemmings Classic Car is merely the successor to Special Interest Autos. SIA had been published by Hemmings for nearly 35 years, but they introduced Hemmings Muscle Machines and Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car magazines within a year or two of HCC, IIRC. Personally, I was glad to see the foreign cars stripped out of HCC, but I hope that Hemmings doesn't get carried away, like Amos Press did with too many automotive titles over the years.

IMHO, all of those spin-offs helped water down C&P. Now, they're pulling it all back to one magazine, but killing the goose that laid the golden egg. I've also heard, privately, from a few other enthusiasts outside of Packard circles who are equally disappointed and will not continue with the new publication.

WRT electronic media, I greatly enjoy the quick reference of digitized documents that PackardInfo offers for FREE, but I, too, prefer having the quality of original or literature or high-quality reprint in front of my own two eyes.

I'm proud to say that I have NEVER paid one red cent for any sort of subscription to ANY online publication - and hope I NEVER do.