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Just picked up the September issue....wanted to read the story about the L78. I was surprised there were some obvious errors concerning the compression ratio and the style of Holley carb. Do these guys fact check this stuff with folks who know [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]

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Tom - MCR (and others) are known (at least by me) to have on occasion some glaring errors in some of their articles. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]
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Sometimes all they go by is what is told to them by the owners -- we all know the issues with that ... TAZ
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I let my 2 year subscription run out.Wasn't much new month in month out...same old same old.
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I don't get it all the time...once in awhile if the spirit moves me. The L78 article caught my eye...perhaps they should have asked one of us to help write it [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]


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Often, what was edited and published was not what the author had written. Things get changed for odd reasons by people that should not be editing content. Something I recently learned. Don't shoot the author, hang the editor.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 68l30</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Often, what was edited and published was not what the author had written. Things get changed for odd reasons by people that should not be editing content. Something I recently learned. Don't shoot the author, hang the editor.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69hurstSC</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 68l30</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Often, what was edited and published was not what the author had written. Things get changed for odd reasons by people that should not be editing content. Something I recently learned. Don't shoot the author, hang the editor.

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As told from friends and family that have gone thru the process of writing...

For the Record, I actually like MCR and the editor. I have every issue dating back to Classic Sixties...My comments are a generalization. There are cutting room floors for more than one media....I bet there are some good stories within them too!


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Edited for content... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69hurstSC</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 68l30</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Often, what was edited and published was not what the author had written. Things get changed for odd reasons by people that should not be editing content. Something I recently learned. Don't shoot the author, hang the editor.

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I concur. I was the tech editor at MCR and Mopar Muscle from 1990-94 and sometimes I'd be floored by edits/corrections that were made by the people above me. I was, on more than one occasion, told that I should have been writing to a fifth grade reading level and the fact that I had a law degree meant that I was writing too far above the heads of my audience. Whether it was them making technical material no longer accurate or just plain &quot;correcting&quot; my correct grammer with incorrect grammer or slang, it drove me nuts.

Don't get me started on the phrase &quot;it needs restored.&quot; Or how Charger Daytonas had fiberglass nose cones... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]


...and when I finally met someone there that had a better talent at grammer and syntax...I married her! (We just had our 23rd anniversary a couple weeks ago). [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]


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