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
|