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mopar muscle magazine? Getting thin?

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Hey guys,

Is it me? or is the Mopar Muscle Magazine getting a little thin?. Maybe the paper is thinner or something? I just picked up the feb issue and really didn't feel it was worth 6 dollars. I know if I buy a subscription they will be cheaper, but I don't buy them every month either. I guess there's only so many articles you can do on early mopars.My 2 cents worth....
 
Yeah, the magazines are not what they used to be. Course anytime I'm at the store and see them I buy but i barely have time to read them anymore.
 
mos mags were getting thin 20+ years ago...I rarely will buy a magazine...not much to look at..I get them for the ads (ok where have we read this, I only read them for the articles, we didn't believe you then..we sure not going to believe you now) but seriously I only buy one every other year or so just to sorta keep abreast of some of the rodding accessories and of late..there is little even on that end of the spectrum...the internet has pretty much killed the magazine business..
 
The paper is definitely a lot thinner (lighter weight) and of lower quality. It tends to want to curl alot!
I've always preferred Mopar Action for content anyway but the paper quality with MM has me pretty frustrated too (doesn't help that I worked in paper for 30+ years :))
 
I dropped the scrip a few months back. Got tired of the light reading and the cost was more then any other mag. I just don't need 50% of the mag to be ads and the articals crap like how to install a muffler.
Wayne
 
Mopar Muscle has been going downward for quite a while now. Randy Bolig has taken it from what was once a really good periodical to nothing but a rag. He forever is touting, "HIS" projects and then capitalizing on the new Mopar offerings. To me he has abandoned the older cars for the new. And quite frankly, most I dare say cannot even afford all this new stuff anyway. He checks in some times on MOPARTS but as of late he seems more inclined to take the expensive proceeds being charged and keeping a low profile while laughing all the way to the Bank. $6.00 for a news stand price for that rag is just way over the top. I do have a subscription though which will run out in 2016 that I now have had for a long time. But i won't renew after that. Really the only magazine I will continue with is Mopar Action. And I do subscribe to it for the Resto and Tech sections along with just about every upgrade we can put on our rides that Rick Ehrenburger has published. He is what makes that Magazine a really good one...IMHO...cr8crshr/Tuck:jerk:
 
yeah it's been getting thinner it seems every year now, I use to post over on their MMM forum allot, it got pretty slow too... I don't get any mag. subscriptions any longer, it's so easy to go to a web site instead with out all the paper/clutter, I use to have about 3 or 4, 6' tall stacks of mag.'s, gave them all way to people that wanted them, when I moved 8 years ago... only buy them rarely & very selectively now
 
I am getting bored with my sub to Mopar Muscle. I can go thru the whole mag in just one bathroom session! Does Mopar Action have more coverage of the earlier 60's Mopars?...........................MO
 
I get both MM and MA as christmas gifts, but still feel MM is not really worth it anymore. I think it is quite expense for what you get.
 
I quit buying them many years ago. I once sent a letter to Hot Rod back in the early 1980s and said "there's a million different ways to do a Camaro, and your magazine has covered 999,997, so why not just run the last three and start covering something besides Camaros?" and I felt the same way about Mopar Muscle back in the 1990s, only it was E-bodies instead of Camaros.

IMHO, the best car mag was Autobuff, the car equivalent of Easy Rider. :) It had topless gals, but every issue had a Ford, a Chevy, a Mopar, and a foreign project car detailed in it. Plus they had lots of unusual cars from makes instead of the usual Camaro, Mustang, "Cuda crap.
 
Mopar Action is much better. Their website sucks but i guess that means they spend their money on the print. Rick Ehrenburg seams to be pretty smart and the articles are well written. Mopar Muscle always kinda sucked as far as im concerned.
 
I've said it before,Bolig needs to go as editor. Too many articles on the stuff he has and those stupid engine challenges that use up three editions. Not enough articles on things the everyman has and can afford. If you notice the builds they do are done with complimentary stuff donated by vendors not everyone can afford . Look and you'll see ads either on the same page as the article or a few pages later for the vendor of the stuff they put on. Wish Mopar Action would publish more times during the year.
 
bee71 said:
I've said it before,Bolig needs to go as editor. Too many articles on the stuff he has and those stupid engine challenges that use up three editions. Not enough articles on things the everyman has and can afford. If you notice the builds they do are done with complimentary stuff donated by vendors not everyone can afford . Look and you'll see ads either on the same page as the article or a few pages later for the vendor of the stuff they put on. Wish Mopar Action would publish more times during the year.
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Could not have said it any better. Bolig is way too full of himself in the first place. Always has been and always will be....EBoogher is the MAN!!!!:headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:
 
Bruzilla said:
IMHO, the best car mag was Autobuff, the car equivalent of Easy Rider. :) It had topless gals, but every issue had a Ford, a Chevy, a Mopar, and a foreign project car detailed in it. Plus they had lots of unusual cars from makes instead of the usual Camaro, Mustang, "Cuda crap.
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I used to work for the publisher of Auto Buff as he was also the owner of MAS: Minnesota Auto Specialties. I worked at the counter of MAS on 26th and Hennipen in Minneapolis back in the mid-80s. I did counter and phone sales. On slow nights we used to get a good chuckle out of looking through all the issues of Auto Buff he had laying around. Some of the cars were pretty over the top even by '70s and '80s standards.

The owner Gary used to keep his Ford Cammer-powered T Bucket parked in the front of the store inside. The building used to be a Ford dealership way back in the '30s or something and had three sub-floors filled with fiberglass body parts accessed by a car-elevator and spiral ramp. The apartments up top were made into board rooms and looked like something out of Boogie Nights, lots of red velour.
 
I happen to agree, i had m~muscle, m~collector's guide, m~action, and hot rod, kept only one HotRod, i think i just got board with all the mopar stuff, don't know, i still pick a mopar mag like 3 times a year.

GrabberOrange69 said:
I subscribe to:

HR Deluxe
Hot Rod
Car Craft
Rod and Custom

The 2 I cant wait to get my paws on are R&C and HR DEluxe
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