Best Corvette Magazine for C3's ?

[Michel73]

I know there are several Corvette Magazines out in print but which one do y'all like the best for C3 stuff :confused

Thanks and Save the Wave

 

[Eric]

Corvette Fever is pretty good about running the step by step tech articles on C3 about every second issue. It seems to me that Vette has less C3 stuff though. Neither is heavy on C3 info though, guess the advertising dollars say C5.

-Eric

 

[SwaveDave]

Im not renewing Corvette Fever nor Vette magazine ; theres way too much on C5's and i dont care to read featured articles on how some guy took his L48 thru the Appalachian Mountains over a weekend. I like CarCraft and Chevy Hi Perf. magazines much better for the articles and technical info you can pick up.

Dave

 

[Michel73]

Eric,
Sorry to hear that you are Vetteless :cry What happened to the 71?


Michel

 

[Eric]

Eric,
Sorry to hear that you are Vetteless :cry What happened to the 71?
Michel

Michel,

Appreciate the sympathy. I sold her to fund my wife's education. She has two more years then she and I both get Vettes. The waiting is the hardest part.

-Eric

 

[matchframe]

SwaveDave,

You made my morning, I laughed so hard, I almost dropped my coffee over the statement "...about how some guy took his L48 thru the Appalachian Mountains over a weekend."

I have to agree with you about Car Craft & Chevy Hi Perf. I would also add HotRod Magazine as well.

Bill

 

[Michel73]

Eric,
Sounds like you made a wise choice on a good investment

Save the Wave

 

[Eric]

Chevy high-perf is nice for me since they occasionally tell me tricks for my 60 degree V-6 cars which I have three of.

- Eric

 

[SwaveDave]

Bill,

Glad you got a kick out of my statement...too bad its true. You can only take so much of silly articles to fill up a Magazine like some preppy-lookin' kid whos about to start college standing at the back of a bone stock 1977 with his initials on the license plate , or a proud Soccer Mom who loves Corvettes in addition to MiniVans, or an elderly couple who have sold the Barn and took a spin around the country in a 2000 C5 . I swear that the featured poeple get a financial kickback from the Magazine so they will promote the magazine to thier friends and coworkers.

I think the overall Corvette populus are getting tired and annoyed over seeng such rhetoric in a subscription theyve paid for. These sorts of articles should be in Travel Magazines or Better Homes and Gardens.

There should be a Magazine called : 'Corvette GearHeads'.

Dave

 

[Stallion]

I like the Corvette Magazine. It's a lot more information and articles than Vette and Corvette Fever, and it's cheaper. But outside of price, it is good quality, too. It is tough getting a lot of information on C3s, as the C5 is what they are looking to sell still. Oh well. Good luck!!

 

[Stallion]

rice burners

Well I don't know if I'd go that far!!

 

[1981]

Im not renewing Corvette Fever nor Vette magazine ; theres way too much on C5's and i dont care to read featured articles on how some guy took his L48 thru the Appalachian Mountains over a weekend. I like CarCraft and Chevy Hi Perf. magazines much better for the articles and technical info you can pick up.

I agree with Dave. I have let my subscription go since for the last year I have tried to sit down and read my new issues of Corvette Fever only to be advertised to death for the new 30HP addtion to the C5. And when a C3 article is written it doesn't do much for the enjoyment of C3's. Except for if you are into articles of showcase C3's. The articles lean more towards the C5. Which I really would not mind if I owned a C5, but in Rick Church's post I almost lost it when I realized these magazines are pretty much showing the C5 as a Honda Pep Boys "Fast and Furious" trick car. The cost and marketing behind the additions are different between Honda types and the C5, but the basic quest to add that new red and gold shinney air intake that is said to add an astounding 15HP to your already 405 ZO6 is the same. hmmm, I might look into adding that new red and gold/blue chrome steering wheel on my next garage pit stop. They say it will add 10-15HP to my turns or was that my torque, maybe my idle, well its gotta help something.

I am really glad I got away from Corvette Fever before I saw a C5 with a fin. Just kidding, but man that would have been pretty awful to see.

All in all I really think it boils down to different tastes, I like my corvette stock with some additions that you can not see that improve performance (roller rockers, stuff like that) but stock none the less. Those who like bone stock would disagree. Others like to add stuff, colorful things that match their tastes and give them performance, or maybe just a look. Most of these corvette mags are catering to these people. Which leaves me out.

I have turned my sites to those magazines which were listed earlier.

Hot Rod
Chevy High-Perf
Car Craft
and the anticipated "Corvette GearHeads"


1981

 

[Flared69]

Michel,

Appreciate the sympathy. I sold her to fund my wife's education. She has two more years then she and I both get Vettes. The waiting is the hardest part.

-Eric

Damn, I think thats a fair trade off though keep the wife happy and have two vettes at both your desposals

 

[JohnZ]

How 'bout a 3-part tech series (across three issues) on "How To Install Your Carbon Fiber Ashtray Lid and Strawberry-Anodized Monogrammed Sill Plates"?

Sorry Couldn't resist :eek

 

[Flared69]

So corvette enthusiast has lots of c3 info?

 

[Flared69]

if u like wheitbeer

Franziskaner is a great drop for about $28/case

 

[SwaveDave]

Rick, VERY good observation on your behalf. I believe you are quite correct in your analysis . I think thats why someone needs to come out with a 'CORVETTE GEARHEAD FOR THE C3'r" magazine ! Because CF and Vette magazines no longer appeal to me (as a regenerated hippie who finds featured articles about some guy in a nature trance as he passes over the Appalachian mountains in his C4-5, a bunch of nonsense...), im going to take my subscription business to the notorious gearhead magazines of the new millennium (and old millennium) : Hot Rod, Chevy hi Perf, CarCraft....where they talk about pistons bigger than the plates i eat off of, and Bumpsticks that resemble the nastiest of billyclubs .

To the checkbook....

Dave

 

[Greekman]

I'm not re-newing my subscriptions either to Vette magazine or Corvette Fever. Again too much info on C5s.

I presently get Auto Restorer, Cars & Parts, NCRS and CCA magazines and materials. They are fine with me.

All though the new C5s are nice to look at and I am sure fun to drive, I am just not interested in them, they are to high priced so I probably will never have one.

I am content with my old American Muscle Cars!

.

 

[phrogs]

I too let my corvette fever subscription go..
I just dont get all the
C5 crap eaither but its been around for a while now...
But I did get a couple of the corvette magazines while I was in the gulf and I did like them real good quality of paper that was a plus

johnny

 

[Flared69]

yeah its a pretty good mag.

I think c3 is the boohoo of the magazine world - because its not quite worth much, not recent enough that a lot of readers have them, and not rare enough that they are worth 10billion dollars so they can justify doing a spread of Bob The Giraffe on his cross continental treck to the Andes in his hunt for a plankton eating whale with horns... actually, that sounds more interesting than what they do publish.