A new side gig for me (if anyone's interested)

[VintageMusclecar]

A good friend of mine (Neil VanOppre) used to write for the big car mags back in the `80's and `90's and was the editor for "Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords" for a while as well. He and another friend of his (Tony DeFeo) were also the driving force behind the short-lived "Cars Illustrated" magazine. While CI was only published for a few years back in the 1980's, it developed an almost cult-like following in that brief time.

Fast forward to today: An anonymous source obtained the rights to the old CI name, and I'm happy to report that the CI title has been resurrected in digital format.

http://www.carsillustrated.com/

Once again Tony & Neil are at the helm and are working feverishly to get things up & running again. The site is relatively new and there isn't a whole lot of content posted yet, but I am honored to announce that I will be contributing material for the site and my first article was posted tonight.

http://www.carsillustrated.com/to-dy...-the-question/

Most of you are already familiar with my 496 build, but Neil thought there was a lot of useful information to be shared from the build and asked if I would be interested in putting together a multi-part article for the site. Naturally I obliged.

Please take a few moments to peruse the site and read up on some of the other projects currently underway.

The next installment will be posted up as soon as I have time to get it wrapped up. If there's any interest here I'll post the updates in this thread.

[iluv69s]

Congrats !!! Sounds cool..will check it out.. Good Luck !!

[68l30]

Loved that old Mag, I was a follower big time. Powershifting 101= Priceless!

Good luck with the new format, headed over to check it out!


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[njsteve]

Congrats! Looks like a cool site.

A couple decades ago I was a tech editor at DPG which published Mopar Muscle, Musclecar Review, SuperFord, Mustang Monthly, Corvette Fever, etc. It was a fun time back in the day when they had paper magazines and cameras with actual film in them.

Good luck with the project. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[mockingbird812]

Good to hear Eric. They are lucky to have you. Congrats!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[flyingn]

excellent! They were my favorite automotive writers and will be following the new website for sure! Great idea too!

[69 Post Sedan]

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[VintageMusclecar]

Thanks guys.

Rest assured the content will remain true to its heritage. Neil &amp; Tony are just as zany today as they were in the `80's. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] (I'm in good company lol)

[scuncio]

Congrats, I must have missed this post!

[JRSully]

I still have a pile of those old mags in my attic somewhere, used to buy them as a kid as soon as they came out. They used to have EXCELLENT articles on East Coast street racing as I recall, very no nonsense musclecar mag. Wasn't Joe Oldham involved with that mag for a while.? Glad to see its back and look forward to reading to it. Good Luck with it Eric.!