Re: IAP/C&D subs

["Paul Misencik" <paul@domain.elided>]

>YMMV, but in my estimation none of those folks is worthy
> to check Setright's oil, much less trash his writing.

Hear hear!  I've been getting my gift subscription also, and CandD has
evolved into a flat-out TERRIBLE magazine.  The writing is self-conscious
and forced, and the coverage seems more geared toward a different market, I
guess...  Far more likely to read about the latest Silverado or Mustang GT
than anything about any cars I seem to care about.

Despite the fact that Car and Driver wrote a little sidebar aritcle on me
back in 1994 (my fifteen minutes, I guess), give me Road & Track anyday of
the week and twice on Sunday.

Paul Misencik
Huntersville, NC  28078
email: paul@domain.elided
www.paoloroman.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Owen" <nashwill912@domain.elided>
To: <alfa@domain.elided>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: IAP/C&D subs


> Mike Trimble said:
>
> "I got an identical gift, and mine have been turning up in the mailbox
like
> clockwork...This is obviously a promotional deal they've
> worked up with C&D: The store banks some good will and the mag hopes that
> these new subscribers will re-up with their own money when the freebie
runs
> out. Win-win for everybody, I'd say, unless you don't care for the
magazine."
>
> I've been getting mine regularly as well, and I'm not sure I'd continue on
my own. I treasure the memories of Warren Weith, and even kinda liked Davis
in spite of
> his relentless self-glorification. I remember feeling some trepidation
when they moved their HQ from New York to Ann Arbor, and was relieved when
the old attitude
> seemed to prevail, at least until Davis took his best writers and
split...but the crowd now in charge seems to have moved clear out to Idaho.
That they could just
> as well call it "Truck and Driver" is bad enough, but last month one of
those guys (Bedard, I think) mentioned that LJK Setright had once written
for the
> magazine, and dismissed his prose as "incomprehensible." YMMV, but in my
estimation none of those folks is worthy to check Setright's oil, much less
trash his
> writing. Their constant yammering against any form of environmentalism
also got old an awfully long time ago.
>
> As for IAP, put me down as another satisfied semi-customer - I bought a
steering rack from them a few years ago, but all I've done more recently was
call them for
> price and availability on a few things which I then proceeded to buy from
someone else. Their telephone people, however, are unfailingly cooperative
and pleasant.
>
> Will Owen
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