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glemon said:
Remember when if you didn't get a dedicated racing magazines, Speed Sport News or something, was pretty much your only source of Formula One race reports and news. Imagine a world when you read about things two months or more after they happen, still it was great back then.
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AutoWeek was the only way we learned of Jim Clark's wins and demise, Emmo's World Championship, Lotus' Constructor's Championship, etc. The Indy race was about the only event well covered by TV. Rally wasn't ever mentioned here in the U.S.
 
Remember looking forward to a Rob Walker or an Eoin Young report in R&T about any Formula 1 race - a race that occurred weeks and sometimes months earlier.
For the most current race results and very short and abbreviated reports, a subscription to Competition Press was required - then you were able to "talk the talk" with buddies at school. Hey Doc....think it was still called Competition Press when Clark was killed - think it didn't morph into the Autoweek name until sometime in the 70's.
 
Yes, my quote, now corrected, is remember when "road and track" was the source for in depth coverage of F1, they would occasionally show races on TV (Monaco, US and Canadian GPs), if I recall right I watched the Monte Carlo GP weeks after it occurred sometimes (on ABC's Wide World of Sports!) , but they could get away with it since you couldn't read all about it on the internet. But yes, the Rob Walker and Eoin Young reports were great, didn't they use an ex GP racer, British or Irish, that had a bit of a reputation of being a bit of a hard charger post race as well?
 
Dug out this April 1967 copy of R&T (it has the road test of the GT6). The South African GP took place January 2, 1967. The magazine was probably on the stands around mid-March. We sure were patient back then.




 
aeronca65t said:
I forgot, until I read Roger's comment, about Motor Sport, which is the grand daddy of all car magazine. I occasionally buy it at the bookstore.

Bill Boddy was the editor of that magazine for over 50 years! Denis Jenkinson used to write for Motor Sport.
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Nial, they were in part the reason for my continuing loyalty to the magazine. "Jenks" and "The Bod" were friends of my father and visited our home from time to time back in the late 40s / early 50s.
 
glemon said:
.... didn't they use an ex GP racer, British or Irish, that had a bit of a reputation of being a bit of a hard charger post race as well?
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Innes Ireland. Scotsman, f1 pilot, engineer, former paratrooper, all around cool dude. Always loved his writings.

Think about that, the guys R&T had back when, Innes Ireland, Phil Hill, Rob Walker, Paul Frère. They were a who's who of motorsports. They didn't just write about it. They were it.

Throw in Pete Egan as a link to us "regular" car guys. That was magical.
 
PC said:
Innes Ireland. Scotsman, f1 pilot, engineer, former paratrooper, all around cool dude. Always loved his writings.

Think about that, the guys R&T had back when, Innes Ireland, Phil Hill, Rob Walker, Paul Frère. They were a who's who of motorsports. They didn't just write about it. They were it.

Throw in Pete Egan as a link to us "regular" car guys. That was magical.
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That's who I was thinking of, and apologies to Scotsman everywhere, I suppose I got the Irish in my brain from the name. And yes, those were great days for the magazine, when I was a car hungry adolescent in the early seventies I would read the magazine from cover to cover after school the day my older brother brought one home from his job at the grocery store.
 
Roger said:
Nial, they were in part the reason for my continuing loyalty to the magazine. "Jenks" and "The Bod" were friends of my father and visited our home from time to time back in the late 40s / early 50s.
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THAT is really, really cool!

...and apparently, you *are* an Ancient Briton! Hahaha!


I subscribed to Competition Press when I was in high school. I remember buying used racing tires for my "gymkhana" car through an ad in the back.
When I was a kid, my neighbor was a roundy-round fan and he used to get National Speed Sport News, so I would swap Competition Press for his NSSN after we were each finished with them.
 
Also enjoyed Classic and Sportscar from England, but last I checked it was about $10 an issue, and I just am not going to pay that much for a magazine, it may be more now.
 
I used to get 'Classic and Sportscar' and 'Classic Cars' in the UK. After a few years you start to see very similar articles repeating themselves so now I have a quick flick through them in the newsagent and only buy them if there is something that particularly catches my eye (ie Healey articles!).
 
:iagree: Rarely will I see anything in the motoring publications to get me to drop money for 'em.

Jay said:
Hey Doc....think it was still called Competition Press when Clark was killed - think it didn't morph into the Autoweek name until sometime in the 70's.
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Correct! And the "step" in between was "Competition Press and Auto Week" IIRC.
 
Hemmings, Classic Motorsports, SCCA Sportscar, GrassRoots Motorsports, Land Rover Owners, Land Rover World, Jaguar World, Classics and Sportscars, but mostly internet and this Forum.
 
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