magazine appearances

STEPHEN BROHOLM · #1 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 04:44 AM

I love buying the latest issues of "KIT CAR" and "KIT CAR ILLUSTRATED" when they hit the news stands.
Have any of you guys had your toys shown in either of these mags?
If so, which mag and issue where they in.

P.S. I hav'nt seen Kit car illustrated on the shelves here in OZ for a little while now , is the mag still in circulation?

750hp · #2 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 06:02 AM

Stephen,
OZVENOM built a Harrison Cobra with a custom twin turbo, quad cam Lexus 4L V8 and Nissan GTR ind. rear end. It has the flip/flop paint (DuPont Chromalusion, I think...), all leather interior and boot area, 17x12" wheels etc, etc. It's certainly an attention grabber, and the owner of the car is a mild mannered, quietly spoken accountant

He's a really nice guy, but OZVENOM comments on his WOT problem - any time he accelerates, it's always at Wide Open Throttle... sometimes at the most inopportune times

Always spectacular.....

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah - magazines! It's been in a hot rod show feature in Street Machine mag with some mention of his 450KW number plates. Zoom mag have recently done a photo shoot with a view to having a full feature soon.

It'll be down at Goulburn this weekend.

ac andy · #3 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 06:53 AM

Stephen, i had the same problem with Kit Car magazine and Kit Car Illustrated, i was told by my newsagent that the distributor is not bringing them into Oz anymore and that i would have to subscribe if i wanted them.

Ron61 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 07:09 AM

Stephen,

I have subscribed to both Kit Car magazines for many years and in December 2001 Kit Car Illustrated combined with Kit Car the car builders authority. There is only one magazine now. My car was in Kit Car Issustrated in the August 2000 issue on page 80. If you want to look at other Cobras Hemmings Motor News has an online car show that has every kind of car. I don't know if any of the club members have their cars in it or not but mine is. I don't know who put it in there as I have never sent them any pictures and don't even subscribe to the magazine. I was just browzing the site one day looking for parts and saw the car show link and decided to look and see what they had and there was my Cobra. It has every kind of car and is quite interesting to look at.

Ron61
Ron Widener

750hp · #5 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 07:11 AM

Andy - you just have to ask the right newsagent...

I'm a part of a family newsagency, and we've been getting Kit Car Mag all along without any supply troubles - the September issue arrived a few days ago.... It's over $12- these days, but it's free if you read it while you're standing behind the counter!!!

Rest assured, we have an extensive motoring magazine section!!!

ac andy · #6 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 07:13 AM

you bastard, you mean ive been missing out all this time and i didnt have to be? D'oh!

750hp · #7 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 07:21 AM

Oooops! Sorry to ruin your day! If it's any consolation, at least I didn't miss out!!

Excaliber · #8 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 09:12 AM

I never been in that magazine, but "locally" my car has gotten a lot of coverage. It's fun when people I meet say, "OH, I saw your car in Mid Week", or on TV or at this web site. Heck, I'm even on a Japan web site. You just never know where you will "pop up" next, lol. I missed out on Car and Driver magazine shoot recently because they wanted to focus on the "poor boy" cheap to drive angle for a "Drift Session" article recently. My car was "to nice", ha ha!

Ernie

michael_s · #9 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 01:01 PM

We really need our own magazine here in oz,imagine a cobra kit car mag with the size and quality of the new speed magazine.
with articles in full colour not half and half like kitcar mag

Fred Douglass · #10 (**permalink**) 10-01-2002, 01:57 PM

Mike,
I've often thought the same thing (here on the "antipodal" side). I even asked the former publisher of "COBRAS" magazine if there was enough interest to recommence publishing. Unfortunatrely, I got no response. I, for one would love to work for such a publication! I am also willing to bet that there are sufficient numbers of cobra-owners internationally to support a revival of that wonderful pub. I know SPF publishes a newsletter of their own, but I'd hazard a guess that SPF owners make up only a quarter of this web-site's respondents.

Bryan Wilson · #11 (**permalink**) 10-07-2002, 11:17 PM

My car was in Street Machine June 2001 issue on page 76
Regards,
Bryan Wilson

CobraDan · #12 (**permalink**) 10-08-2002, 03:22 AM

In the November issue of Kit Car they have a preview to the next issue's stories. Spring Fling II, a Cobra get-together for 237 snakes in London, Ohio. You should be able to see a few Cobras from people on this site.
Dan

Ron61 · #13 (**permalink**) 10-08-2002, 12:09 PM

I don't know if this counts or not but in August 2000 World of Collector Cars spent the whole day filming at Emerson's and all of us have our cars in the shows. They showed on three different weekends and the show numbers were 2303, 2304, and 2305. It was a lot of fun and I got to see some really nice Cobras.

A Snake · #14 (**permalink**) 10-08-2002, 01:57 PM

I got a little coverage in Kit Car Illustrated. June 1996 pg 86 (the white car) The article came out several months after the picture was taken and the car was actually done by then and not by the knot head whose shop it was in!

Also got on TV on My Classic Car with Dennis Gage. Two times. Once from Autofest '98. Just a brief shot at the reception from the night before (episode#996111) and earlier from the Sonic Drive-in Cruise-in. The latter aired in January 1999 episode#996104. My TV persona stinks so the interview got cut down pretty short.

Also got a couple of pics in the My Classic Car magazine that featured the Autofest '98 show.

Last, the picture in my gallery "Evolution of The Cobra" is a publicity shot used for advertising the Forest Grove Concours d' Elegance. It was taken with a 4x5 format camera on a tripod by a real pro. This by the way, is the one and only time a replica was allowed on campus as a feature car in with the real thing.

My car and other replicas, street rods, muscle cars and the like are usually put off on the side of the show and not mixed with the true Concours cars. So this was a real honor. I was up front with the big boys! Even got a big pewter platter for being a feaure car.

I was just wondering...has anyone else ever met Dennis Gage? Really a neat guy. I had lunch with him and took him for a ride in the car....which he liked a lot! Look at your Pringles potato chips can. The guy in the mustache is him. He was the lead chemist in the development of the Pringles for Procter and Gamble before he became a car show host. Don't let the mustache and porkpie hat fool you...he's got a PhD in chemistry.

Al

Ron61 · #15 (**permalink**) 10-08-2002, 02:13 PM

Al,

That was quite an honor for you and your Cobra. It is a beautiful car. Also very interesting about Dennis Gage. I saw him once briefly when they did a show at Thunderhill but didn't know he was a chemist.

renaissance man · #16 (**permalink**) 10-08-2002, 02:23 PM

Never in a car mag but my cobra will debut on CMT in February in musician Cory Morrow's first video "Texas Time Traveling".

mikiec · #17 (**permalink**) 10-08-2002, 02:49 PM

When Kit Car did a series on Gordon Levy's shop..The car in the paint booth was mine.

Mike

Ron61 · #18 (**permalink**) 10-08-2002, 03:18 PM

Dave, I will be watching for the video to come out.

Mike, which year and months issue of Kit Car was your Cobra in ? I would like to see if I still have it.

mikiec · #19 (**permalink**) 10-08-2002, 03:21 PM

Ron,

I do not remember exactly but between Jan of 2000 and march. I'll check whan I get home.

Mike

mikiec · #20 (**permalink**) 10-09-2002, 09:29 AM

Ron61..

I can't find the mag. However, I was wrong about the year. it should be 2001. Sometime in the first qtr. The car was in the paint booth in Dec of 2000.

Mike