What to do with your old MAGAZINES
 

Other than the recycle bin.....is there any value in
1) 2013-2021 Hemmings Muscle Machines
2) MuscleCar Review
3) Chevy High Performance

Just wanting to confirm the reality of my situation ????????

Thanks, Chuck Sharin

Sadly, I had every issue of Classic Sixties, Muscle Car Review and Hemmings Machines up to 2018. I couldn't give them away. I checked with sellers at Big 3 and Pomona swap meets with no interest, even if I gave them to them. I wasn't going to spend endless time on eBay trying to sell them one at a time for who knows how long, so I tossed them all out. I was really disappointed to have saved them for so long thinking that someday someone else would want them as much as I did. I really wanted to keep them, but they just weren't worth the space they were taking up. And I couldn't justify paying for storage for who knows how long before they might be worth at least face value.

I had thousands of magazines. Just about any car mag from the seventies until recent. I called the guy that is in charge of the only automotive technical class still taught in High School around here. Asked him if he wanted them for his students. He did, so he sent some high school students over in a pickup truck. Three or four trips later, they were all gone. The students were in awe at the amount of mags. They were extremely grateful for them. Now I have to do something with the thousands of motorcycle mags that I still have. Some of them have nekid women in them, so the students aren't allowed to have them.

Sad, But I did the same thing, tossed them in the recycle bin.

If you are coming to MCACN I would love the Muscle Car Review magazines.

Ryan W31

I have 2000 magazines from 1960 to 1974 (the year I graduated High School and the year most cars went south). I do enjoy going through them on occasion.

You may want to check your local homeless shelter as they may want some of them for their residents.

Donate them to a library or tech school?

I sadly recycled about 1000 car magazines from my childhood fairly recently

My wife runs a very large outpatient mental health organization in Michigan and the male patients love free car magazines!

A good spot to drop some off is if you a VA facility near you. There are still a lot of Viet Nam aged vets in the system there and they love seeing these.

I have kept all my magazines, I still have some that I bought in the mid-sixties.
I also still have a few new car sales brochures that I collected in the sixties and early seventies. It wasn't easy getting them sent down here to New Zealand back then, I would write letters to the big three in Detroit and they would always send me some brochures with their new models. It was very exciting for a young teenager back then waiting for them to arrive.

I'll check with my VFW friend who has many VA contacts at the SEATTLE Hospital...But I would have thought that magazine publishers flood the VA Hospitals with FREE magazines ?????

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Covid cleanliness did away w/ magazines at Hospitals also waiting rooms for most anything so best confirm specific facility policies before dropping good stuff off anywhere.
MCACN seems a good place to bring modest amounts to share w/ fellow members also others if someone willing w/ booth space?:hmmm:
Gotta mention how Steve's been doing an awesome job posting interesting old mag articles lately, thanks Steve!:headbang:
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~ Pete

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I've got thousands of car magazines from the early 60's on up that I've been collecting since I was 13 and I'll never get rid of them. I get just as big a kick going through them as I do driving my old cars so the kids can donate or sell them when I'm gone. They take up a lot of space but I keep them in labeled clear plastic totes in my utility room so they're out of everyone else's way at least.

I went though my old car magazines when selling my folks' house a few years ago. I recognized a '69 Chevelle owned by a member here in an article in Muscle Car Review. Sent him a PM and sent the magazine off to him. You never know.

I will not be attending the 2022 MCACN show, so wont be dragging an extra "suitcase" full of magazines...........

Boat anchors. I tossed 10,000 a few years ago, have 10,000 more. Read all cover to cover.

Some great suggestions. Wish I had thought of them at the time.

Vintage Auto Mags Dispositions
 

Interesting Topic.
I can relate as a Magazine subscriber.
Also as a survivor of a Father that had Years of Vintage Car, Truck and Gasoline engine Mags.
When it did come time (2005) to resolve my Dads paper collections I could NOT just recycle the lot. I sought out like minded Old Timer Friends of his and donated them to their homes-shops and garages. Titles like, Skinned Knuckles, Earlyday Gas Engines, American Truck Wheels of Time, Cars & Parts, HET; Hudson Essex Terraplane Etc. (Titles from memory and may be very inaccurately quoted) It has taken Years to distribute them. I found the Vendors at Swap meets were less than receptive. So Efforts to locate Folks from His Vintage Car club have been my chosen path.

I wonder Where my decades of USCC Camaro Enthusiast and Camaro Corral mags will end up in the long run

I am member 1030 in the NCRS. Thus I have every contiguous Driveline and Corvette Restorer issue since 1974. I know the pool of anyone interested in those someday is extremely small, but I can't help myself from renewing every year to keep the run alive.

I too have a ton of old Hot Rod, Cars, Road & Track, etc., (as well as aviation magazines like Air Classics, Air Progress, etc. with air racing coverage) and I consider them an important part of my library.

It was bad enough that I too collected thousands of car magazines but when I started collecting Warbird magazines on top of it Annie had a fit. I can find people that will take the aviation magazines but no one wants the car magazines.

Your a Veteran Chuck The VVA comes to our house about 3+ times a year for donations. I am sure they can use them.

When I start looking at the old magazines, I figure I may as well keep them and enjoy them until I can't do that any longer. How do you beat a Magazine cover like this?

I'd love to have more copies of the 2018 Musclecar Review that has the SCR story with my Camaro in it. If anyone has this and wants to get rid if it I'll pay for it.

Last year when I moved to a new house, wife said magazine collection had to go somewhere else, posted here that they were free for the taking.
Member here drove up from Cincy and filled up three storage boxes, thanked me for
posting, drove home happy.
Lucky me, they were not sent to Rumpke.
Andy

When I bought out a magazine collection from a guy 30 years ago I loaded up my 4 door car with hundreds of magazines. They must have weighed a ton as my car looked like a low rider.

Almost heartbreaking to read this thread because it indicates the lack of interest in baby boomer-era Musclecars in the minds of the next generation following us. The fact that current offspring don’t even want these free treasure troves of paged information really disturbs me.

Kids want to find things on the web, they have little patience for reading anything printed.
It's killing the newspaper and magazine business.JMO

I just pulled a December 1969 Hot Rod and saw Elephant Engine Ernie and Dr. Oldsmobile with a bright yellow W30 442. If they're not worth anything, I'll keep them.

If someone here would like to send some 1970's Hot Rod mags or Car Craft mags to an appreciative recipient, I'd be happy to send you $20 via PP F&F to cover the postage on a USPS medium, 11-1/4" x 8-3/4" x 6", flat rate box.

Thanks

Looking for the January/February 2006 issue of Motor Trend Classic.

Agree 100% There will always be interest in these cars in my opinion. Kids have been conditioned to access reading material online from the time they start school.

I would love to have some more copies of the November 2018 Musclecar Review and January 2023 Hemmings Muscle Machines if anyone has one they don't want.

If anyone has old GMHTP magazines I'd be interested in buying them.

I gave away more than 30 years of Hot Rod, Car Craft and Super Chevy because I couldn't find anyone who wanted them.

Freddy, PM me your address and I'll send you my copy of January 2023 Hemmings Muscle Machines. Bill

Thank you Bill.