Corvette fever final issue disappointing
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Corvette fever final issue disappointing
I used to be a suscriber of both, corvette fever and Vette magasines for long time. As time when by, less C3's were in there magasines so i didn't renew my suscriptions and just bought the ones that i found interesting. When i found out that CORVETTE FEVER was cut out i wanted the last issue. When i look at it, i found that no C3 were in the magasine. The magasine was founded in the 70's so right in those C3 years.
It seem that they didn't do anything special for there last issue. It even had the card for a subsciption for CORVETTE FEVER (that was a real joke).
I was really disappointed that they could'nt have the respect of at least have one feature of every body style.C3 owners were of those who did encouraged them for all those years. It seem that our money didn't count for them all those years.
I bought my first Corvette Fever magasine in the early 80's and kept every magasines (that i bought )since then.
Just hope they do make a real special issue with maybe some of the BEST OF CORVETTE FEVER.
It seem that they didn't do anything special for there last issue. It even had the card for a subsciption for CORVETTE FEVER (that was a real joke).
I was really disappointed that they could'nt have the respect of at least have one feature of every body style.C3 owners were of those who did encouraged them for all those years. It seem that our money didn't count for them all those years.
I bought my first Corvette Fever magasine in the early 80's and kept every magasines (that i bought )since then.
Just hope they do make a real special issue with maybe some of the BEST OF CORVETTE FEVER.
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Interesting side note.
Was reading about the publishing business recently and over 350 magazine publications folded in 2009.
All have declining circulation.
The only one on the increase is the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Was reading about the publishing business recently and over 350 magazine publications folded in 2009.
All have declining circulation.
The only one on the increase is the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
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Back in those years, all the news were trought those magazines. Now with all the infos we get trought all the medias we have now it's not suprising they do sell less magazine than before.
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I was also surprised, after all those years, that they did not come out with a big bang, last issue. They could have done something better than that. Do not think you are ever going to see any kind of best of, it is over and done.
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With the quality of Corvette magazine being far superior to any of the others I'm not surpriesd to see them fold. Its never good to see a business fail, but this is one case where its nice to see quality recognized. I am fortunate to have every issue of Corvette magazine in my collection but never really cared to keep the others that I have subscribed to over the years.
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I was really disappointed that they could'nt have the respect of at least have one feature of every body style.C3 owners were of those who did encouraged them for all those years. It seem that our money didn't count for them all those years.
I bought my first Corvette Fever magasine in the early 80's and kept every magasines (that i bought )since then.
Just hope they do make a real special issue with maybe some of the BEST OF CORVETTE FEVER.
I bought my first Corvette Fever magasine in the early 80's and kept every magasines (that i bought )since then.
Just hope they do make a real special issue with maybe some of the BEST OF CORVETTE FEVER.
Personally, I think CF could have done some great things with their older material. There exists a wealth of CF articles from the 80's which have a lot of great C3 articles and how-to's. Back then they were the contemporary cars and there were great mods and fixes along the same vein as new exhast systems and other tweaks for C5/6's. They could have tapped into some of those articles and re-ran them as a 'flashback' column.
Personally, I think it's time for some outfit to come up with a Classic Corvette magazine that focuses predomenantly on C3/4 and older cars. I think it's a matter of time before it happens.
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The quality of Corvette Fever had been declining for a long time, but I think the take over by Vette was something of a Saturday Night Massacre. Hence no "Farewell" issue.
Personally, the "new and improved" Vette is equally disappointing.
Corvette Enthusiast is also on the endangered species list.
Personally, the "new and improved" Vette is equally disappointing.
Corvette Enthusiast is also on the endangered species list.
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Corvette magazines shot themself because if there's no C3 in the magasine i don't bother buying it. I think it's true for a lot of people. If there model years are not covered they just won't buy them. They cover a lot of new corvettes but it would be nice to run a survey to see who buy those magasines. I think those who drives old corvette have the true corvette Fever. Those new corvette owners are not even waving. Some of them (and i say some of them, not all of them) are just driving new corvette to tell the world , look at me i got money.
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I had never opened a Vette magazine before mine came in the mail to replace my Corvette Fever subscription. I have to say, it exceeded my expectations. I wasn't sure what to expect, but judging from everything I had read here, I thought it was going to be bad. Not too bad at all.
