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Hi all - I'm looking at starting a new series of features in Retro Cars, and need your help! I've run them successfully in Performance Vauxhall (which I also edit) and would like to run them in Retro Cars. The premise is simple - people love to see the work that has gone into making cool cars, and while Feature Cars are great - there's never enough page space to show the work that has gone in to them - at best a handful of pics are squeezed in to the feature somewhere. The cars don't need to be full-on feature worthy cars - just cars that have been taken from the brink of extinction and transformed into 'finished' cars. If you're interested I'd need 20-25 images throughout the build process, from the beginning to the end, showing the key stages. Importantly these images need to be high res (around a 1meg upwards per image). If they're only a few kb they will probably be too small to use, so harvesting them off an existing build thread will probably be unsuitable as most are resized for web use. If you're up for it send over a couple of pics - preferably before and after shots to retrocars.ed@kelsey.co.uk. Ideally you will have carried out the majority of the work yourself, although it's understandable if you've entrusted some the tricker aspects to a specialist (welding, paint, electrics etc). If the pictures are suitable I'd then ask you to supply a brief caption with each pic, and a bit of blurb about the car's story (you don't need to be a literary genius, just give me something to go off). Here's an example from Vauxhall showing what the feature will look like - I envisage them going over 4 pages.  If you're up for it, let me know! |
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FOAD
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Looks like an interesting feature, I would offer some of my cars but nothing ever seems to get finished around here.
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Well I've got a couple of interested parties... (just in case you thought this was a tumbleweed post!) ;-)
Any more takers?
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Porsche
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Kev from B'ham.
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Sounds like a good idea. I'd enjoy reading that in Retro Cars.
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fogey
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So, Steve will be writing out some cheques for the owners will he ? Thought not . . . .
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Email sent
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1987 Opel manta GT 2.0 16v
1976 Opel manta s project
1985 Opel Rekord E 2.2i
1992 Vauxhall Carlton 2.3TD
1989 Mercury Grand Marquis
2005 Landrover discovery 3
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MrSpeedy
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www.vintagediesels.co.uk
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If you're interested in the whole evolution of my Vitesse I'll be more than happy to provide some pictures and guff.
Or the recent resurrection of our 400e from accident hedge bound back to A1 condition
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Last Edit: Dec 3, 2015 19:45:57 GMT by MrSpeedy
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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Reader Restos wanted...bstardchild
@bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member 71
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Jesus you guys are getting really lazy..... Start reading threads in readers rides  |
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Jesus you guys are getting really lazy..... Start reading threads in readers rides These features aren't intended to replace resto threads (they're what makes forums like this so enjoyable) but think of the feature as the 'highlights' ;-) |
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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Reader Restos wanted...bstardchild
@bstardchild
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Jesus you guys are getting really lazy..... Start reading threads in readers rides These features aren't intended to replace resto threads (they're what makes forums like this so enjoyable) but think of the feature as the 'highlights' ;-) Oh I got that bit - I just think it's lazy journalism - get the everyone to send you pictures and story - copy filled - job done mag filled I look at in this way because if you are like that with two pagers than you are unlikely to be very fussy with bigger features - if you can't see that I'm surprised |
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Every time someone posts something about featuring somebody's car on a website, on TV or in a magazine some get really offended by it. Am I missing something? I doubt very much the people who are wanting to feature the car will become millionaires of the back of the feature. All I see is magazines getting thinner and thinner and using lower quality paper.
I have been lucky enough to have a car featured in performance VW in the past. I wasn't paid or offered expenses and didn't expect anything. It was a great experience and a good feeling to see your car in print and hopefully appreciated by others. We all want our 15 minutes of fame don't we?
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fogey
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And the publishers, who often don't give a toss about cars or our hobby and only produce the magazine for advertising revenue, receive the benefit of your hard work by filling the pages of the mags as cheaply as possible with stuff that's already available for free on the net.  |
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Last Edit: Dec 3, 2015 22:41:10 GMT by fogey
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These features aren't intended to replace resto threads (they're what makes forums like this so enjoyable) but think of the feature as the 'highlights' ;-) Oh I got that bit - I just think it's lazy journalism - get the everyone to send you pictures and story - copy filled - job done mag filled I look at in this way because if you are like that with two pagers than you are unlikely to be very fussy with bigger features - if you can't see that I'm surprised It's a feature that has gone down really well in my other magazine. People like it. It's interesting. Not everyone goes on forums. The fact that it's 'free' (which it isn't as it takes a lot of my time to sort out - people need a lot of assistance to deliver what's needed for the feature to work, words need rewriting, pictures need chasing up etc etc - it's not an easy feature to put together). The fact that it doesn't cost money doesn't mean it's 'lazy', it means that it frees up my very limited budget to help pay for decent photography so I can be MORE fussy. I'm making the best magazine I can with the limited resources available to me. And the publishers, who often don't give a toss about cars or our hobby and only produce the magazine for advertising revenue, receive the benefit of your hard work by filling the pages of the mags as cheaply as possible with stuff that's already available for free on the net. If you don't like it, don't buy the mag. I'm just trying to do my job. |
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And the publishers, who often don't give a toss about cars or our hobby and only produce the magazine for advertising revenue, receive the benefit of your hard work by filling the pages of the mags as cheaply as possible with stuff that's already available for free on the net. What a ridiculous statement..... |
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And the publishers, who often don't give a toss about cars or our hobby and only produce the magazine for advertising revenue, receive the benefit of your hard work by filling the pages of the mags as cheaply as possible with stuff that's already available for free on the net.  |
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I'll have to check if I have kept the pictures in Hi-Res of my Cortina build if you are interested?
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96 E320 W210 Wafter - on 18" split Mono's - Sold :-(
10 Kia Ceed Sportwagon - Our new daily
03 Import Forester STi - Sold
98 W140 CL500 AMG - Brutal weekend bruiser! Sold :-(
99 E240 S210 Barge - Now sold
02 Accord 2.0SE - wife's old daily - gone in PX
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I'll have to check if I have kept the pictures in Hi-Res of my Cortina build if you are interested? By all means email details in. |
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