Tom Shaw's New Magazine is DOA

[mmcporter]

From Tom Shaw himself via email, sent to me after I asked where the heck is the second issue:

----Original Message-----
From: TOM SHAW
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 1:11 PM
To: MORRIS PORTER
Subject: Re: Thanks for the premier issue, but....

I have merged Musclecar Power with Musclecar Enthusiast magazine, published
by Amos Press. You will now receive Musclecar Enthusiast magazine instead of
Musclecar Power. If you subscribed to both, your subscription will be extended
by the total number of unsend issues.

You will receive your first issue of Musclecar Power at their regular monthly
frequency.

Sorry for the hassle. We could not generate the level of sales needed to
continue.

I hope you like Musclecar Enthusiast. It is a good magazine produced by good
friends of mine. I will be writing for them too.

Tshirt orders will be fulfilled with Musclecar Enthusiast Tshirts.

Best regards,

Tom

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[NEW]

Finally a lead, that gives you something to hold on to..

its like a lay-away plan, paid for long time ago, you think everything is lost, and suddenly everything is sort of ok.

Looking forward to t.shirt, and magazines.

NEW

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I'm all right with that plan, I already subscribe to MuscleCar Enth. so I'll take the extension and another T-shirt. Kudo's to Tom for taking on the project and giving it a good effort. Will be nice to see him writing again, even if it's not his own mag.

[55chevy]

You know guys.. Muscle car Enthusiast is a nice mag, But we've now lost TWO other great Muscle car mags. First Muscle Car Motion and now Muscle Car Power.. Both have been merged with Muscle Car Enthusiast.. Personally I would've preferred 3 good magazines to just 1.. Let's hope Hemmings Muscle will stick around for awhile and not merge with MCE as well.. or vice versa.. We've seen this same thing happen in the past with other great magazines.. SPS Muscle Cars.. Guide To Muscle cars..etc.. All got taken over by Muscle Car review that Primieda got its claws into and dissolved almost instantly.. then returned a while later to make a quarterly magazine out of the name.. I guess just so they could keep rights to it or whatever.. And every other magazine that was good , Car Craft, Hot Rod, ALL of the 4x4 mags.. All now say Primedia on the cover and have shrunk in physical size and been stuffed FULL of advertising... Take a Peterson Hot Rod or Car Craft from the 60s-70s and lay a Primedia Hot Rod/Car Craft on top of it an you'll see what I mean.. Anyhow.. I'm done bitching. I guess 2 monthly Musclecar mags are better than none, but when you just can't get enough [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] What can you do?

[mmcporter]

Agreed; Monopoly is not a good thing in business. We need MORE TITLES!!