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The Dorks have gone next level!

It could be worse guy's, look what they are doing to Harley's
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My new 1969 SuperBee came from the factory with white wall tires and full 14" wheel discs. It did not stay that way for long!
So, if my old car somehow survived, and was fully restored, do you think the restorers should/would put the white walls and full covers back on?
 
DeltaV said:
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The car is a factory EW1/EW1 white V code Charger R/T like my car,but is blue inside with blue pinstripes. Very cool car. I have pictures of my V code white Charger R/T, but you will have to get the magazine to see that one.

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Wheels and tires finish a car and it speaks volumes of who owns it. Old school or new school doesn't matter, if the combination blends well. I enjoy a staggered look, but then again, I'm not a purist.
 
Love the day two look. The cars that drove by and you stopped whatever you were doing to check out!
 
Dave6T4 said:
My new 1969 SuperBee came from the factory with white wall tires and full 14" wheel discs. It did not stay that way for long!
So, if my old car somehow survived, and was fully restored, do you think the restorers should/would put the white walls and full covers back on?
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I had this issue with my GTX when I finally acquired it after a five decade pursuit. The car came from the factory with dog dish caps, and Goodyear Speedway white lines. The original owner (also the dealer) immediately removed the steel wheels, and replaced them with 1968 style factory Magnums (road wheels) without trim rings. His previous GTX had those wheels from the factory. When Chrysler went to trim rings in 1969, he didn't want them.

During the five years the car was a daily driver, it wore a variety of tires, including red lines, and later, white line radials prior to being sold in 1983. When I finally bought the car, it had trim ring road wheels, with white letter BFGs, a combination it never wore back in the day. I didn't ponder the question long, and went back to chrome rims with red lines.

A concours restoration would require Speedway white lines and dog dish caps. That will not happen on my watch, and the original owner's son has assured me it won't happen when the car finally goes back to his family.


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I have a subscription to MCG. I usually get through it fairly quick as the articles on numbers matching, one of whatever, paint marks etc, are about as stimulating as watching paint dry or golf. They are a great resource for pieces with all of the ads they run. It's too bad, to me at least, that they don't go beyond that. But then again, it's what they've been doing for quite some time, so it works for them. I too have seen Rob walk right by a great feature car only to glom onto the usual stuff. At last years SEMA show, I talked with one of the gents from Modern Rodding magazine. He actually worked at Mopar Muscle[ atrophy as it was beyond weak]. I asked if they would be up for a Mopar publication as MCG is it since Mopar Action went bye bye along with the others. He said he would present that to Bryan Brennan who runs the publication. Since then, as I have a subscription to it, they've been doing some Mopar features. Maybe they're testing the waters? I hope so. The company consists of many who got the boot when Motor Trend/TEN killed off many of the magazines. They do a bomb *** job with Modern Rodding. Waaayyy better than Street Rodder.
 
ckessel said:
I have a subscription to MCG. I usually get through it fairly quick as the articles on numbers matching, one of whatever, paint marks etc, are about as stimulating as watching paint dry or golf. They are a great resource for pieces with all of the ads they run. It's too bad, to me at least, that they don't go beyond that. But then again, it's what they've been doing for quite some time, so it works for them. I too have seen Rob walk right by a great feature car only to glom onto the usual stuff.
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In Rob's defense, he actually featured Baby Blue in the May 2014 issue. I made it easy for him. I wrote the story, accompanied by artwork, and sent it to him as a submission for "our readers write." I had hoped that he might run a "pictures from back in the day" short, and I was pleasantly surprised when he ran the entire submission, with minor editing. I had no idea the car made print until I received the May issue.

I wrote professionally for a short time early in my career. Dead line pressure drives everything, and I can see why the magazine has survived, with narrowly focused content. Have to do a lot with a little, and still draw advertising revenue. I left publishing for the trucking business without a backward glance.

The featured GTX in the current issue caught my attention with the somewhat similar origin story to my car. Although I think the Demonstrator makes a far better subject, being the actual car, rather than one like it, a publisher has to grab the low hanging fruit, and picking a concours MCACN car provides a far more efficient filter than talking to every GTX owner at Carlisle.
 
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Bought this 71 road runner back in 1994 and this was the original wheels on the car. The tire is original and was in the trunk as spare.

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Kern Dog said:
The mullet headed leader of the magazine makes the decisions as to what cars make the magazine.
I saw that dude in Los Angeles last weekend. I was parked next to two Challenger convertibles, standing behind my car. This dude took pictures of the other two cars then skipped mine.
Now, I don't care if my car were ever in a magazine but the dude didn't have the decency to take pictures of all three cars and just delete the one of mine later? In a shrinking market, wouldn't you try to hold onto every possible enthusiast to subscribe to your magazine?
The cars I've seen in the magazine are either stock appearing or Day Two in style. The dork doesn't appreciate anything beyond that.
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If it makes you feel any better, I have 3 interesting stock 70 and 71 Challengers, including a very unusual spec convertible, and a Mr Norms sold T/A I've owned since HS and did a OE restoration on. I've seen Rob at many shows over the years my cars have been in including MCACN the 6 or 7 times I've had a car there, and AFAIK he has never even taken a glance at any of those cars let alone taken a picture.
In 2022 his photographer Tim Costello came up to me at the Belvidere Illinois Mopar show eager to shoot my Magnum GT. I was organizing a malaise muscle display for that years MCACN show, and I think Bob Ashton who was at the show told Tim he should shoot my car for the MCACN show preview features MCG that comes out the month before the show every year. I met him after the show at a location he uses to do photo shoots there, took my info, and told me I'd get emailed a questionnaire from Rob soon I should look for and respond to ASAP.
I had recently let my MCG subscription expire, but called a few days later to resubscribe as maybe I was finally going to get a car featured in it!
Never even got the questionnaire or any further contact from MCG. I guess they tricked me into paying for another year....
So nice stock doesn't necessarily get attention from him either.

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68BabyBlue said:
In Rob's defense, he actually featured Baby Blue in the May 2014 issue. I made it easy for him. I wrote the story, accompanied by artwork, and sent it to him as a submission for "our readers write." I had hoped that he might run a "pictures from back in the day" short, and I was pleasantly surprised when he ran the entire submission, with minor editing. I had no idea the car made print until I received the May issue.

I wrote professionally for a short time early in my career. Dead line pressure drives everything, and I can see why the magazine has survived, with narrowly focused content. Have to do a lot with a little, and still draw advertising revenue. I left publishing for the trucking business without a backward glance.

The featured GTX in the current issue caught my attention with the somewhat similar origin story to my car. Although I think the Demonstrator makes a far better subject, being the actual car, rather than one like it, a publisher has to grab the low hanging fruit, and picking a concours MCACN car provides a far more efficient filter than talking to every GTX owner at Carlisle.
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It must be the guys with low T running dork dish hubcaps on their muscle cars. The guy in the ad who can't untangle the garden hose. Mags display toxic masculinity! Lol
 
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