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jeffnanny (Offline)
  #1 8/10/11 10:12 PM
Was looking around in my garage today and found 8 issues of open wheel magazine from late 91 to early 92 and a 94 jr johnson special of circle track. It is crazy looking back to these days. Which then I was just 6 years old. Being younger seeing these and bringing back memories was good. But I was wondering if there are people that collect these things to keep looking at them through time. I have sat around most the night reading through them. But was just seeing if there was interest in them. I would let someone else read back in these and enjoy them.

Thanks guys..
Bad Dad 54 (Offline)
  #2 8/10/11 11:34 PM
I enjoy reading my "Back Issues" not just Open Wheel but many others, I have some as old as 1968. What I like most is the articles that used to show you how to build things or improve power output. Not like today's magazines where as I used to buy them for .50 cents & minimum wage was about $3. Now magazines are $5.99 & minimum wage is around $7 an hour. Plus it's buy this buy that where we used to go to the junkyard & scavenge for what we wanted. I still do.
jim goerge (Offline)
  #3 8/11/11 1:29 AM
I have every Open Wheel that was published . Still get them out and reread them . Man have the cars changed so much fom then to now
jeffnanny (Offline)
  #4 8/11/11 7:27 AM
Well thats good news.. Thanks guys. I think I will just keep them on my coffee table and read them here and there. Just from these issues to now it is funny looking at the suits, the non-down tube cars, the hair do's, the setups, and so on. I have enjoyed them and think I will just keep them to enjoy. If anyone has missed out on early 90's sprint cars let me know. I will share these with you.. They are informative but def put a smile on your face..
duel (Offline)
  #5 8/11/11 8:55 AM
I don't have all of them but most. My problem is trying to keep the wife from throwing them away.
Gregg (Offline)
  #6 8/11/11 10:38 AM
I have most of them. The articles were always first rate. Last year I took a few of them out and read them. One article about Cliff Griffith was very interesting. Up until then Cliff Griffith was just a name on old box scores.

In the early 1990s Peterson Publications bought the magazine. Open Wheel started going downhill after that and then it was gone.
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fishnman (Offline)
  #7 8/11/11 3:53 PM
I have about 95percent of the issues. I swap out 10 to 15 issues every 3 months or so in a certain room where a shower, sink and toilet are located. Always take time to read them when........ well............. you get the picture.
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dirtball (Offline)
  #8 8/11/11 3:54 PM
That reminds me , I've got a stack of Speed Age magazines, think I'll get them out one of these days. Cheers!
Mud Packer (Offline)
  #9 8/11/11 5:14 PM
Originally Posted by fishnman:
I have about 95percent of the issues. I swap out 10 to 15 issues every 3 months or so in a certain room where a shower, sink and toilet are located. Always take time to read them when........ well............. you get the picture.
Thankfully for all of us that you didn't post the picture.
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jim goerge (Offline)
  #10 8/12/11 2:12 AM
Originally Posted by fishnman:
I have about 95percent of the issues. I swap out 10 to 15 issues every 3 months or so in a certain room where a shower, sink and toilet are located. Always take time to read them when........ well............. you get the picture.
Oh you also have a reading room
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