At 01:45 PM 11/6/95 -0600, RGOLEN@umassd.edu wrote:
>
>Wow...this thread has finally migrated from VINTAGVW to here...so
>let me throw in my $.02 worth...although I DID get chucked off
>of VINTAGVW for expressing my views on VWT&A and Douche Bags &
>Horny Volks Wusses....
>
>Perhaps when I was a pubescent 14 or 16 the format of a magazine
>that featured both cars and semi-nekid wimmen was the ultimate...
>Unfortunately, that was 25 years ago...I've had plenty of
>cars...and plenty of women since then (not to sound sexist...
>but you know what I mean)...
>
>Back twenty five years ago the thought of cars and blonde big breasted
>bikini bug/bus bimbos would bring about the requisite necessity for
>crank polishing....today, I'm older and I HATE the idea that the
>magazine publishers believe that I'm still a 16 year old, and that
>my purchasing habits, my life pleasures stil revolve around
>this sort of drivel. Hell, if I want to have a car fantasy
>today, I'll drive the bug or even the 944...if I want a sexual
>fantasy, my wife can fullfill that...I don't need no steenking
>magazine!
>
>The second thing I find offensive about VWT&A or DB&HVWs is that
>the "bimbo factor" is clearly a devise to cloak the fact that
>the writing in these magazines (both technical and event) sucks..
>My 6th grade son can do better....and considering that I've
>been thru college/grad school/law school reading something written
>by an author whose highest literary style is to use words like
>"sano", "bitchin'", "resto", "ass kickin' stereo" just doesn't
>cut it...to add insult to injury it appears that BOTH the magazine
>editors and advertisers appear to believe that I'll probably
>ignore the writing style because I now have a "chub" from looking
>at the bikini clad bimbos....so therefore I will now have to
>run up to the bathroom...latch the door and flog my dolphin..
>
>Their logic being with the amount of vibration going on, the only
>thing I'll be able to focus on is the picture...rather than
>the print.
>
>
>I'll pick up those mags only when I have to...if there is some info
>that I'm not able to get anywhere else. All is not lost however,
>this group as well as the VintagVW group provides much better
>and IMMEDIATE tech info than any of those magazines could ever
>do! In addition, clubs like the VVWCA, GASS, The CVA etc. puit
>out a better newsletter than these editors at the various magazines...
>
>Sorry to get off on a rant....
>
>Ric
>
Ric,  all I have to say is....... RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!
I do subscribe to one of those magazines and do agree wholeheartedly with
you and find it interesting in their reader's poll; that over 70% of the
readers are over 25 and married.  Maybe Muscle car Camaro mania magazine or
a similar lot would be apprapo for the cheesecake but not such prestigious
readers as those interested in such a world-class automobile such as the
German car.
               If I want to see cheesecake I'll buy the sports magazine
swimsuit issue or turn on the TV Hype type news shows,

                          Peter DePaoli
                          Carbondale, Il
                          '71 Westy
                          '73 Super Beetle