What Mags do you read?
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From: Rio Rancho, NM
I was recieving Street Rodder, Rod & Custom, and Custom Classic Trucks for awhile. I've since let them all expire. I go back and forth with Street Rodder, they tend to focus on high end stuff but they do provide some cool history and tech stuff now and again. Rod & Custom is pretty good and I go back and forth there also...getting it for a couple of years and letting it go for awhile.
Custom Classic Trucks and Classic Trucks are worthless. I think they might be trying but its too little too late for me. I'll give them another couple of years and try again (you know how it is, the editors make the rounds of these mags every couple of years or so) I just don't think every trucks needs to be sitting on air bags and resting on the ground, have a 350/350 combo, and have huge mega wheels with low profile tires....YUCK!
ok, ok, I'm stepping off of the soap box now.......
Bobby
Custom Classic Trucks and Classic Trucks are worthless. I think they might be trying but its too little too late for me. I'll give them another couple of years and try again (you know how it is, the editors make the rounds of these mags every couple of years or so) I just don't think every trucks needs to be sitting on air bags and resting on the ground, have a 350/350 combo, and have huge mega wheels with low profile tires....YUCK!
ok, ok, I'm stepping off of the soap box now.......
Bobby
Fleet Owner
Joined: Dec 2000
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From: Central PA
Vintage Truck is the only truck magazine I get anymore. I used to get Classic Truck but even tho it was real cheap, I dropped it since there were few articles I was interested in.
Vintage Truck is a much better mag for us light-siders. I appreciate all brands of old trucks and all sizes. And most of these trucks were built by the owners not by some high priced shop for a guy with a large checkbook.
Vintage Truck is a much better mag for us light-siders. I appreciate all brands of old trucks and all sizes. And most of these trucks were built by the owners not by some high priced shop for a guy with a large checkbook.
Fleet Mechanic
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: peyton, colorado
I also get lots of magazines, variety of subjects, motorsports mostly. John Dianna's Buckaroo stuff is good, been reading him 30+ years. My Custom Classic trucks subscription just got renewed recently by my wife, I was going to let it lapse. Same stuph every month, and now they're showing late model trucks. Back to John Dianna and Buckaroo...last year he did an article in street rod builder on his "new angle anglia" which he started building in the early 70's. I still have the original Hot Rod article from when he started it.
Logistics Pro
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Moro Bay, AR
The only one I get is CCT and it won't be renewed when it runs out. When I want late model trucks, I'll look at one of the other mags. They're currently doing a long term build of a 88 C1500 
If that's a classic truck, then I'm getting old, very old
Jeff
If that's a classic truck, then I'm getting old, very old Jeff
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From: La Verne, California
Originally Posted by lowtrkn2k
I'm wondering what truck specific magazines everyone subscribes to. I know about Classic Trucks and Custom Classic Trucks of which I subscribe to both of those. Are there other "classic truck" type magazines out there that are pretty good reads with good tech articles??
Im surprised I haven't seen any Classic Ford Truck specific mags. I see ones for Mustang and some other model specific mags. It wood be pretty nice if there was one for the F100's.
Im surprised I haven't seen any Classic Ford Truck specific mags. I see ones for Mustang and some other model specific mags. It wood be pretty nice if there was one for the F100's.
Though I do agree that the articles these days seem to be nothing more then promotions for the Advertisers product line.
Vintage Truck when I'm able to find it, it's more Retoration oriented w/ only minimal Mods included in some of the articles.
All extraneous funds these days are going to help pay off the mortgage on our new home & magazine subscriptions were the first thing to go.
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Joined: Aug 2001
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From: Glendale, AZ
I used to pick up CT & CCT quite regular but have noticed alot of repetition. I wasn't really getting anything for the money so I quit buying them. Ok, all I really wanted them for was the occasional peek at a 57-60 which is few and far between. Now... if I could just get Foose to pick up my truck and finish it in a week!
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Joined: Dec 2003
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From: New Mexico
Most of the mags out there are OK to subscribe to for about a year and then the articles repeat themselves. And, most of them are about building your truck out of your checkbook--not really fabrication oriented. I get a lot of info out of this forum and metalmeet. Both have lots of photos and there is correspondence to and from the builders for specifics. No mag gives you that.
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Joined: Jul 2001
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From: Deridder, LA
Classic Truck mag is my number 1....over the years I have picked up on some nifty little tricks of the trade....you have to be patient with them...they cover all those lovely 50-70s trucks pretty well...one thing for sure....a F100 is going to be in there every issue no matter what...
I agree with Dffay earlier post...this forum is the best on the net...i have every question answered which classic truck mag couldn't do with Rob....he takes a while on the email tip.....
I agree with Dffay earlier post...this forum is the best on the net...i have every question answered which classic truck mag couldn't do with Rob....he takes a while on the email tip.....
Cargo Master
Joined: Jan 2005
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From: Tucson AZ
Okay, I'll bite, I get Street Rodder by subscription and the rest off the newsstand on a ""per issue'' basis if I see something I like. For my recent birthday a friend gave me a subscription to Rodder's Journal, it's a bit pricey but is in a league by itself. I am so old now that I can remember when Steve Coonan used to hang around our shop with a sandblaster is the trunk of his dad's Bonneville, but he was always taking pictures. Those were the days!
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From: Katy(Houston), Texas
Well, I agree that this forum is better than any magazine out there. I have certainly learned a lot more reading this than from a magazine. The magazines are mostly eye candy. I guess this Forum is a magazine for the do it your self types because the trucks in those mags are really about paying to have someone else build your dream. I myself, like probably everyone else here, likes to do my own building. I subscribe to CCT and CT mags but I'm reallly starting to get tired of all the big money builds and very little "How To" articles.