wmf62

i received a subscription solicitation for 'Vette' in the mail today. anyone know anything about this magazine?
Bill

Vet65te

Bill, I used to subscribe to both Corvette Fever and Vette Magazines years ago but dropped my subscriptions when it seemed the majority of their articles focused mainly on late model Corvettes, not a big surprise really. I think in 2010, Corvette Fever merged with Vette Magazine.
Mike T.

Poorhousenext

Vette has been around for years. It's one of the few vette only magazines that survived. Corvette Fever was merged into it.

Corvette Magazine is another of the old timers that has survived.

wmf62

and they are offering a 'free' clock too....
Bill

bighouse

That's funny, I just got one for Car Craft offering a "free" clock with subscription.

I get Muscle Car Review. No vettes, but good reading.

Kerrmudgeon

Magazines?.....oh ya, I remember them....barely.

Cruzmeisters

Young Whippersnapper!...(I ENVY you!)

woodsdesign

I also used to subscribe to Corvette Fever and Vette. I found that the articles started getting redundant. Also, the C2 features were becoming scarce. I found I was getting all I needed on this forum.
Also, I would get a renewal bill at least six months before it was due. That bugged me.
All that being said I was thinking of giving Vette another chance.

Plasticman

Something to read while on the "throne".......

Plasticman

waltonb123

I'm an old magazine guy from way back. It's very sad to me that they are closing down one by one. With that said, I will not renew my Vette magazine subscription. Very rarely do they have any C1 or C2 articles, mostly all newer features. I like you get everything I need from this forum!
Bob

waltonb123

Lol, I just bring my IPad Mini!

Tom E.

I like it, partly because I still like paper magazines & newspapers and look forward to it.

"Vette" Mag usually has a feature article or a short piece with pictures on just about each corvette generation with a brief owner's biography and car history (originality or type of mods done), and also a "how to fix-it" spread with photos & step-by-step captions.

Some months it seems to focus more on older cars, then other months on newer. All in all, I find it has plenty of interesting information & articles (which can't be an easy task for the editors), and is a good source of information & promotes interest in supporting the hobby.

rfn026

Back in the late 90's I was the editor at Corvette Fever. Our circulation was over 100,000. The magazine was making huge amounts of money. It was so rich I think we got sold 3 times in one year. It was crazy.

The suits sat me down one day and explained that they wanted to take the magazine in a new direction. I was shown the door.

The suits are still there and Corvette Fever is gone. I never really understood that that the "new direction" was to kill the magazine.

btw - I'm having a great time over at Vintage Motorsport magazine these days.

Richard Newton

corvett66

I remember the good old days when D. Randy Riggs and Paul Zazarine were the editors at Vette and Corvette Fever. The magazines haven't been the same since!

LouieM

Well said. I agree.
For me, reading on a computer screen is less pleasurable than reading print on paper.

rfn026

Paul Z. passed away last year.

D. Randy and I are back together at Vintage Motorsport magazine. We're one of the few magazines that's gaining in both circulation and ad revenue. The issues have been running 160+ pages.

There are some good things happening in the print business.

Richard Newton

LouieM

I hadn't known of your magazine before, looked up online, liked the content, and just subscribed. Sorry to hear Paul Z. passed away, glad you and D. Randy are still writing for a quality magazine.

abdo

I remember when Richard Lentinello was the editor of either Vette or Corvette Fever. He was only there a year or two. He is now editor of Classic Car which I have subscribed to for many years. It does not feature Corvettes very often but I enjoy the articles of other classic cars.

jrs 427

Just bought over 125 issues of Vette, corvette fever and corvette quarterly. For three dollars I have many articles to catch up on. The news stand prices are way too high for redundant material.

Brandons72vette

I like Vette Magazine, and yeah they seem to be more focused on late model Vettes and occasionally a classic. At the end of the day though, you have to say that you would rather read the magazine with any Corvette in it over one of those stupid "Ricer" magazines. I used to have a subscription, but I moved and just forgot to renew the subscription.

My dad in OCtober 2001, at Texas Motor Speedway with the Lone Star Corvette Club (LSCC) was on the cover of Vette Magazine with his former 1960.