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Re: Grassroots Motorsports: If you dont like it, try Pepto

To: "Jim InVirginia" <nqrithfordatsun@msn.com>, andycost@earthlink.net,
Subject: Re: Grassroots Motorsports: If you dont like it, try Pepto
From: RacerY@comcast.net
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:46:46 +0000
heh heh-
yeah, I let that one lapse 6 months ago...

but that was a more amicable parting-
they were just doing things that I've done,
and now I've moved on.
Circle Track's always got one or 2 good bits... and it's dead cheap.

Vintage Racecar Journal's pretty cool- but #$#@ expensive!

Toby
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jim InVirginia" <nqrithfordatsun@msn.com>
> If you dont like GRM, ditch it and subscribe to their sister pub, Classic 
> Motorsports!!
> 
> 
> >From: RacerY@comcast.net
> >Reply-To: RacerY@comcast.net
> >To: "andy cost" <andycost@earthlink.net>, "Roadster List"  
> ><datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: RE: Grassroots Motorsports back issues online
> >Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:38:56 +0000
> >
> >Yeah, me too, Andy-
> >since when was a new Pathfinder a 'grassroots' tow rig?
> >There's very little tech, and that which there is
> >is pretty shallow.
> >I went back to the early '90's issues to see if it was me-
> >nope, those are still pretty cool.
> >So I'm not re- upping my subscription...
> >Toby
> >and I race a BMW,
> >but it really is kind of grassroots..
> >
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >From: "andy cost" <andycost@earthlink.net>
> > > I'm a little upset with grassroots right now.  They started out as 
> >autocross
> > > magazine years ago.  They expanded to grassroots motorsports and started
> > > including new sorts of amateur racing.  That was OK with me.  Now the
> > > magazine is almost all dedicated to high dollar semi-pro road racing.
> > > Another thing that got me upset is the fact that the 2006 SOLO II 
> >Nationals
> > > was not covered until the Feburary issue.  That is 5 months after the 
> >event.
> > > Granted the February issue came out in January but that is still 4 
> >months.
> > > The article was buried near the end of the magazine, did not have 
> >in-debth
> > > coverage of any of the classes and many classes were not mentioned at 
> >all.
> > > The article was short and disappointing.  I'm sure they are getting a 
> >fair
> > > amount of criticism from enthusiast like me.  I suspect if you plan to 
> >be a
> > > high dollar BMW or Porche road racer then you are content.  For the rest 
> >of
> > > us "Grassroots" it has lost it's appeal.  I found one issue buried under 
> >a
> > > stack of mail that my wife had scurried away a month earlier.  I hadn't 
> >even
> > > missed it.
> > >
> > > Andy Cost




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