Kit Car magazine out of business?

[powerslide]

The loss of Kit Car Magazine is unfortunate, but its just one of many dominos that will fall. I'll bet their advertising dollars have just evaporated. How many of their advertisers have gone out of business? Why buy a subscription when the internet web site was free! The subscriber base has eroded over time with the onset of the internet. Most of our replica manufacturers are "small businesses," and don't enjoy the financial resources to withstand the current economic stresses. The picture of our hobby this time next year will be much different than it is now. All the automotive magazines are suffering; Autoweek is down to 48 pages, Road & Track is down to 120 pages. 2009 is going to be ugly for all of us...a big mess that's going to hurt a lot of people!

[Ron61]

I am afraid that you are right and that is why I only renewed my subscription to two of the 7 magazines that I took. One of them was Kit Car and the other PC World. I remember when there were two Kit Car magazines and then they merged. One of them used to publish a once a year special edition called Cobras and I still have a couple of those.

I think not only are we going to see a major change in our hobby, but in many other aspects of life also. I do go to the web sites of some of the other magazines and read their stuff, but I wonder how long they will be there.

Ron