I've always looked around for a magazine that has some j-body's in it but I have never come across any. Wondering if there is any magazines out there that advertise for j's or is there any way we could get a magazine started? It would be good promotion for different company's and let the j-body scene get more recognized cause there are some really nice j's out there. Anyone know if it is possible to get a magazine started?
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It would be good promotion for different company's and let the j-body scene get more recognized
not many companies are interested in a platform thats been dead for 4 years...
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This is true....but I'm sure people who own a j-body would be interested in buying it...although j's have been "dead" for 4 years doesn't mean no one will buy the magazine....I think its just really @!#$ty cause there are some wicked j-body's that deserve recognition...even if there was a magazine that gave j's some coverage, not necessarily an entire mag designated for j's. I know the support for j's is hard to come by as its easy to see with the amount of aftermarket options for our cars. Anyways, I thought I'd just give a shout out to see if anything was out there or if anything could become available.
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that was the first thing I thought of too...lol
Matthew Jollymore wrote:This is true....but I'm sure people who own a j-body would be interested in buying it...although j's have been "dead" for 4 years doesn't mean no one will buy the magazine....I think its just really @!#$ty cause there are some wicked j-body's that deserve recognition...even if there was a magazine that gave j's some coverage, not necessarily an entire mag designated for j's. I know the support for j's is hard to come by as its easy to see with the amount of aftermarket options for our cars. Anyways, I thought I'd just give a shout out to see if anything was out there or if anything could become available.
actually their not. and those that do complain that the magazine isnt high quality and then the guy has to come on here every month making posts trying to get people to submit info on their car and they dont so he had to open it up to other magazines because the number of good carsn isnt enough. the amount of intrest isnt enough etc. etc. etc.
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this is very unfortunate...guess thats the reality of things. Well I was just wondering what people had to say about this topic and it appears to be pretty negative so chances are nothing is gonna change. Too bad someone didn't know of a magazine that was willing to give j's some coverage. Anyways, thanks for giving the heads up that this is a dead topic.
BuMmErZ old Sunfire was in Performance Auto and Sound up here about a year ago. they did a full article on the car.
Shifted wrote:There used to be one...
And honestly... who wants to buy a magazine about a car that's no longer made?
uhm.. about 75% of car enthusiast magazine readers?
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Project Car did up a Cavalier in one of their earlier issues.
z yaaaa wrote:Shifted wrote:There used to be one...
And honestly... who wants to buy a magazine about a car that's no longer made?
uhm.. about 75% of car enthusiast magazine readers?
Yeah, about popular models, Supra's, JDM spec cars, old muscle, new muscle.... not a dead grocery getter, no matter if we know our cars have more potential than a lot of imports, it's just not a popular "reader attracting" platform.
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Brad wrote:BuMmErZ old Sunfire was in Performance Auto and Sound up here about a year ago. they did a full article on the car.
yeah he's also working alongside the magazine and had some major sponsorship. from what he told me they pretty much only do cars that the sponsors ask them to shoot. kinda dissapointing but i guess you gotta pay the bills somehow.ive tried to email them a few times but havnt gotten any response, ever.
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Let's see... things I've read in magazines about J-Bodies:
- The SCC issue which one article was "The ten craziest swap ideas ever conceived". They included the idea of taking a wrecked Evo and swapping in all the working components.
- The few issues of SCC where they were kicking around the idea of a project J-body
- Joe's Cav as car of the month in SCC
- Project car's build up of Project Cruiser, which despite all the flak it took here was a logical build for what they got, and Rick Chu himself even came on here and said that they originally had an ecotec car lined up that they got screwed on, which inspired the article on how to not get screwed when buying a car used.
And that's about it. All in all, JBO seems to be the only source for Js that has useful bits instilled into it here and there, along with the more Gen 2 driven V6Z24.com.
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Zenith wrote:Project Car did up a Cavalier in one of their earlier issues.
Yep, I get this mag every time a new one comes out. Good write ups. Real builds.
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i remember seeing another Cav in PAS, i think it was 95-99, gold&green paint i believe idk if it belonged to anyone on here
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Chuck (Chesterton) wrote:i remember seeing another Cav in PAS, i think it was 95-99, gold&green paint i believe idk if it belonged to anyone on here
Definatly Bob Mull's, I still have that issue laying around somewhere...
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what issue(s) did Project Car do a Cavalier? I always thought Ricki Chu was awesome and was a lil saddened when he left SCC, but after lookin at the first few issues of Project and it looked like it was more or less gonna be a beater drift car mag, I left it alone
I've seen j's in a few mags.. there was an issue of SCC a few yrs back (there was a red EVO8 and a Porsche Carrera on the cover) where they covered a single cam turbo Cavalier coupe from Canada (they called it the Beer Runner) and then they covered Edelbrock's '02 Cavalier Z24dr that was all kinds of hooked up, and was spraying. the same mag also covered some chick's '00-'02 Cavi that was sponsored by Axis Wheels.. it was silver/black/orange, sportin a set of 19s on it. also, an issue of Super Street WAAAY back in the day covered the J-Body Bash.. I've also heard that Modified used to cover j-bodies alot back then..
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I Wanna See You Suffer wrote:what issue(s) did Project Car do a Cavalier? I always thought Ricki Chu was awesome and was a lil saddened when he left SCC, but after lookin at the first few issues of Project and it looked like it was more or less gonna be a beater drift car mag, I left it alone
I believe it was the 2nd issue.
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Scott Ryman wrote:- Project car's build up of Project Cruiser, which despite all the flak it took here was a logical build for what they got, and Rick Chu himself even came on here and said that they originally had an ecotec car lined up that they got screwed on, which inspired the article on how to not get screwed when buying a car used.
hahaha, I remember that issue, lol.
