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2010 marks the 20th year I’ve been working in publishing, and a lot has changed. Back then we didn’t have the internet, didn’t have software nicknamed ‘desktop publishing’ because I allowed everything to be done on-screen. Nope, I started work on a mechanical typewriter and submitted my copy to the sub editor who sat just a few feet from me, but I actually handed her the copy on a sheet of paper (how archaic!). She proofed it, passed it back to me so I could correct all her red marks on it (oh, the shame) and then it went off to the typesetters who put it in the correct font for the magazine, and sent it back to the designer. He would cut each individual line out of the pages from the typesetter, and stick them on to his A2 design ‘spread’. It was time consuming, it made a mess and there was always a mist of spray glue floating around the office, which would stick to everything you wore and go home with you each evening.
Today, we sit at machines and do everything from sending messages (still to those sat a few feet away from us), up to designing and producing the whole magazine, which is incredibly convenient, time saving and simplified. It has its pitfalls, but on the whole it makes the job way more enjoyable.
I’d like to think that building and modifying cars has gone pretty much the same way. I don’t mean all done at a machine - that would be dull – but as far as convenience and simplification is concerned. I know that the past few cars I have modified have been way easier than some projects I’d rather not mention. I love the fact you can check out parts on the internet, buy them, fit them and voila, you’ve modified your car for the better. Yes, you have to choose the right parts, but to me that’s half of the interest, by doing on-line research and seeing what others have to say about the same parts.
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Richard Nicholls, Editor, American Car World

 

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Inside the January issue...

Most people thought Pro Street was dead in the Nineties, as more usable cars took a grip of the scene. Well, we're happy to report it's very much alive and well, it's just had a little twist, like Jim 'Bones' Bassett's '69 Camaro.

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Will the Dodge Charger never lose its crown as the ultimate muscle car? We hope not, and with cars such as Martin Hough's '68 example about, you can see why.

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They call them grocery getters in the States, and I guess that over there Michelle Walker's Suburban would raise an eyebrow or two. Over here, people are gobsmacked once they look beyond its sheepish exterior.