Letters from the edge..

[Steve1968LS2]

First of all this is not a rant.. just observations..

We get letters here.. tons of letters.. some good, some bad and some just weird.

We also do cover surveys.. Tons of people are sent a survey about our covers choices and less than 200 actually take the time to do it. With this they get to add a comment at the end. I thought I would share a few I thought were funny.. or just odd.

Our most recent covers:

April - Dodge Charger
May - Nova (kit)
June - Chevy Camaro
July - Plymouth Road Runner
August - Chevy Nova
September - Firebird Esprit
October - Ford Mustang

Cars featured:

April
Mustang
Camaro
Chevelle
Charger

May
Nova
Mustang
Camaro
Challenger

June
Camaro
Mustang
GTO
New Chargers

July
Maverick
Road Runner
GNX
Camaro

August
Nova
Mustang
Camaro
Road Runner

September
Esprit
GTO
New Mustang
Camaro

So out of the last 24 cars featured 9 have been Chevys.. 6 have been Fords.. 3 Pontiacs, 5 Mopars, 1 buick, etc

So we are Chevy heavy but hey, go to a show and you see more bowtie cars there than anything. Add in the huge popularity of Camaros (especially '69's) and that seems about right given what is out there.

The question on the survey is "Is there anything you would chage about it?" (it being the cover and I can't tell you what the choices are exept this month they are both chevies and one is a '69 Camaro)

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answers: (typed verbatim.. errors and all)

How about something non-chevy

Camero's are nice, but over ton. It is time to see something different.

They are all Chevrolets. Remember when Car Craft was labeled "Chevy Craft"? Mix it up

Put the bar code on the back

I would put a different A-body car on the front cover like a 70's buick skylark, olds cutlass or GTO instead of chevys all the time.

yes, something other than a chevy

The neame of the magazine to popular Chevy

Make it so nothing covered up the magazine name, i hate that.

Don't have a '69 Camaro on the cover for at least two years. How about a Vega, Pinto or something else. Why can't you find another car?



All chevys how about us Mopar guys??

Put a ford on it

Show less Camaros

It needs nekkid wimmin! (yody??)

Put any other cars on the covers - Camaros and Chevelles are overdone

A Choice without a chevy

Put a Mopar on the cover

Lose the g-Machine fad!

Enough with the first gen Camaros alread.

More late model cars.

Lets see some primer and don't forget pro-street trucks!

Show more 6-10k low buck cars people can acutally afford

A bit less focus on the early classics how about the cars of the 80's?

I seen a ford mustang on one of your ads, dont care for seeing fords of any kind in there!

I love chevy, but funky whacked out units are not interestion = more cars that are correct even if stock, with unique motors

Please under no circumstances devote the entire magazine to pro-touring; every car looks the same. How about gassers, hot rods and pro-streets?

I bought our 67 Chevy and your mag for my wife. she is overwelmed by the techy stuff and would like to see more pictures of cool cars.

I would like to see more trucks..

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Those are just some of the more interesting ones.. thought you might like to see into the mind of a PHR reader.. or at least car mag reader.

I know we have a "camaro in every issue" but you would be shocked how many Camaros we have lines up.. dozens and dozens.. especially '69s.. I think we try pretty hard to find cars other than Camaros to toss in the mix but what people build (myself included) and geography conspire to make it difficult.. I saw a Duster the other day that was really nice.. I was all excited till I saw the drum brakes :(

I also think we do a fairly good job bouncing between high dollar, mid dollar and the hard to find low buck cars. Thoughts?

Of the top 5 cars for SMOTY 3 were chevies, 1 mopar and 1 ford.. of those TWO were '69 Camaros.. lol..

Anyways, I know we are biased towords pro-touring here but I thought it would be a good discussion and I thought some here might like hearing "behind the scenes type stuff"

If we run '69 Camaros we are hated by the "non-camaro crowd" -- If we don't run them then all those that build and love them (a large number) would be ticked.. catch 22 or just life in the big city?

Hey, it beats a discussion on caliper color ;)