Do you save your magazines?

I have a question to those of you that save/collect their monthly magazines. I subscribe to several monthly car mags and will occasionally pick up a stray magazine if it has an interesting article regarding something I’m getting ready to do to my project. This is in addition to all the manufacture’s catalogs picked up at events and from their web sites. I’d like to keep some of these handy for future reference.

The question is, how do you organize and store your favorite magazines ( I can hear the bathroom jokes already :eek:)?

Mike

I save em untill the wife has a fit.Then out they go.

Well, I am a pack rat, but don't keep any magazines unless I think there
may be something that would be of interest down the road. For those I
do Keep, I throw in a box in the shop....I have found that CHR is the best
source of info out there, and I have seen more than one..Free too...rd

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Originally Posted by Mike52

The question is, how do you organize and store your favorite magazines

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By putting them in a box & mailing them overseas to the Military.
If there is something I think I may want to save I copy it & put it in a folder.
Not many in there though.
I had mags that were from the 70's to present, decided the best thing for them were to bring more smiles to our guys & gals overseas....joe

25 years worth of mine finally went into the dumpster after the local vets hospital told me they didn't need any more. I would like to say that I've missed them but I really like those empty shelves to put other treasures on again. Catalogs are picked up yearly at NSRA shows and the old ones - again, the dumpster for recyling at the local transfer station:3dSMILE::3dSMILE:

I tried selling the mags for a buck or two per year at 2-3 swap meets between the vets refusal and the dumpster - sales were zip, nada, none:mad:

Mike,
In the past I have drilled magazines using a jig to fit 3-ring binders but you end up drilling into text and pictures as they are not printed with enough margin at the fold for holes. One approach is to use old cereal boxes cut on an angle - if you plan & cut right you get two from a box, but leaving more for support may be better. They can be spray painted or wrapped - just an idea that I have not used yet.

I saved them religiously from '58 until about 2000. By that time I had thousands, with issues back to the late '40s. I had discovered the net by then, which gave me double or triple the info, every month, and in real time. I pulled out a couple hundred of my favorites, and sold the rest to friends. Today I get one courtesy of a publisher friend, which I leaf through, then give to the kid across the street.

i have some left but i really stop buying them long ago did not care for there trick of the week and there one sided views on some things all the add space they sell.it is more like a summit catalog.i have my mother looking out for old motors in junk stores for many years now. i have them that go back to 1935 till 2005 and is nice to have when i did the 36 caddy engine and when i worked on a 41 olds auto trans . they are nice to have when others take things apart and then hand them off to me:HMMM:

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Originally Posted by TooMany2count

By putting them in a box & mailing them overseas to the Military.
If there is something I think I may want to save I copy it & put it in a folder.
Not many in there though.
I had mags that were from the 70's to present, decided the best thing for them were to bring more smiles to our guys & gals overseas....joe

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I do the same thing with mine

I have hot rod/custom car magazines going back to the early '50's.
Not only do I save all the ones I buy. I keep a look out for secondhand
older ones and buy them too. Love looking back through them.
I have thousands of them in shelves in my workshop.

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Originally Posted by LIFESTYLZ

I have hot rod/custom car magazines going back to the early '50's.

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Look in July 54 Rod and Custom and you'll see my car.
A pair of Tennessee Deuces.
The roadster is still around too.
Magazines! I still have a lot from the late 70s up.
I aquired a batch from the mid to late 60s that I still love to look through.
I quit subscribing to magazines a while back. I'll look on the news stand and see if there's on I can't live without. Very few.
They've gotten so "we installed this kit from Joe's Kit Shack" and full of commercials and not so much "here's how to install a (junkyard item) on your hot rod."
The ones I have are in the magazine boxes as someone showed above, stashed in a closet.
They pretty much take up the whole closet too.:rolleyes:

Organize; Whats that??? HE! HE! I've got tons of old car mag and I do the type of mag by the dates. I used to have all kinds of body building mag from the late 70's till the mid 90 when I could no longer work out because my health. I met A young guy at work that was in to body building and offerd them to him which he glady took. He could not beleive that some of the books were older then him. Ok I am feeling my age now. HE! HE! HE!
I also take all my old summit catalogs which I have tons of, to the VA Hospital and put them in the waitng rooms. The next time I went back about two days later I could notfind one. Them guys like car parts, and parts books as well!!!

I subscribe to 2 NZ magazines.
NZHRM and NZRodder.
Being a small country there is usually a lot
of people and cars that I know personally.

I used to buy almost every hot rod type magazine that hit the news stand, but anymore I just bum them off of my Son. :D But I have a lot of them yet, going back to about 1953. For years I kept them in boxes, but they got beat up and I had to dig through them to find the ones I wanted to read. Now we keep them in plastic racks that come in a couple of widths, and stand them on end. You can also pickup an entire rack and take it somewhere where you want to read them (bathroom :o)

Here are the ones we have.

Don

I have a thousand or so,,all the NZ hotrod mags,NZ Rodder,piles of US mags back to the mid 60s,van mags,a few years..Most are in folded file boxes,but some in regular cardboard boxes,,Wont throw them out,cos as soon as I do,I will need to find something...:rolleyes:

Summit catalogs and Speedway catalogs. I really don't buy magazines. I had a subscription to MT for a few years for some reason, I still have all of them, and some havn't even been flipped thru. keep them around for no real reason, but there in magazine racks...

Mine always end up in the garage and when everyone has looked through them I give them to one of the kids who stop by for a visit.... Gotta get them young-uns thinkin' Hot Rod!!!!

Most magazines today are more than half full of ads. Then the tech articles (if you can even find one) are ad biased too. I used to subscribe to them all. They all went in the dumpster when the dentist office & VA stopped wanting them. I still get Street Rodder but only because it was a Christmas gift (they must have paid for 10 years worth!) & those go in the trash after a few months.

The only one I subscribe to & save every copy is The Rodders Journal.

I used to save them as a source of reference, but the advent of the web/internet has made that practice obsolete. As a source of information and reference material, the internet is just as good or better, doesn't require any shelf space, and silverfish don't eat it.

Bob

I've got about a gazillion. Want some?

I have 30 years of streetrodder and Rod action in the shed sealed in plastic boxes.:HMMM:

I use a single edge razor blade to cut out the pages of relevant articles, staple together and then file them in a file cabinet under different subjects.

i give mine to a local furture kid hotrodder.

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Originally Posted by TooMany2count

By putting them in a box & mailing them overseas to the Military.
If there is something I think I may want to save I copy it & put it in a folder.
Not many in there though.
I had mags that were from the 70's to present, decided the best thing for them were to bring more smiles to our guys & gals overseas....joe

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I believe USPS will pay for this. I have been meaning to look into it before tossing all mine, but my collection also goes back to only about 2000 :o. I remember reading my dad's old ones that he still has though..

My mother was a very fine woman. She and I were very close, BUT ...... when she put my collection of very early "Hot Rod" magazines (which dated back to the first editions) out on the curb for the annual "Boy Scout Scrap Paper Drive" that put a big strain on our relationship.

If that wasn't enough, she threw in one of the small magazines that had pictures of our old roadster in it.

I stomped into her house just about to cry and asked her why she did that. She answered "Oh, the things were old as the hills so what good were they?"

That was about fifty years ago and I'm still mad about it.

There are some things that women just don't understand. (I'm not talking about you, Barb).


Jim

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Originally Posted by Big Tracks

My mother was a very fine woman. She and I were very close, BUT ...... when she put my collection of very early "Hot Rod" magazines (which dated back to the first editions) out on the curb for the annual "Boy Scout Scrap Paper Drive" that put a big strain on our relationship.

If that wasn't enough, she threw in one of the small magazines that had pictures of our old roadster in it.

I stomped into her house just about to cry and asked her why she did that. She answered "Oh, the things were old as the hills so what good were they?"

That was about fifty years ago and I'm still mad about it.

There are some things that women just don't understand. (I'm not talking about you, Barb).


Jim

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I actually had Vol 1, No 1 of Hot Rod - and when I got married, it went to the landfill (I'm may be ancient, but not so much so that I bought it from the newsstand).

My mom did other "wrong" things like trash my Lionel train set, but that's for another thread:CRY::CRY:

I had tons of playboys. Way to many. I cut out the picture, jokes and whatnot and sealed them in plastic. For some reason, I still look at them. I'll give them to the grandson when he turns 18.

I keep the ones that have good pics and articles I like, And i have all the original American Rodders and the buckaroo ones, I have most of the Rodders Journals including the first one. I have saved everyone we have had cars we worked on, Someday my son can look back and see what I did.

My wife showed me how to make a electronic folder on our computer. Now I just scan what ever I want to save and file it in the folder I have named that is relevant. It sure beats going threw stacks and stacks of magazines.
And if I can do it anybody can. :LOL:
Ken

Wow, you all have some great tips - and some very sad magazine loss stories.
I was going to suggest the same thing as Wayne Gilchrist, but I think that TooMany2count actually has the better method. It's a lot easier, and whether you agree with them being sent or not, those guys in the service deserve everything we can do to make their lives a little better.

not currently getting any mags, but when I did, I would save them up and give them as a christmas present each year to my brother in law. Since I am the only one reads them, usually just once, they are like new.