Showing posts with label magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magazine. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Happy Christmas from Life On Cars

AS a special Christmas treat for everyone who enjoys Life On Cars and its coverage of motoring news, reviews and events I'm happy to share this, a magazine looking back at some of the automotive highlights of 2012.

Not only is it the moment when I finally get to announce what my favourite car of 2012 is but it's also a chance to look back at some of the best bits of a cracking year for car enthusiasts, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I've agonised over which events and cars deserve a second look in the 20 pages of this rather special edition of the magazine.

If you're bored of your presents already or you've had a little too much wine and turkey, then sit back and enjoy this Car of the Year edition of the Life On Cars Magazine.

Merry Christmas!


Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Get ready for Christmas with our Car of the Year magazine

IT'S nearly that time of year again. Yep, the bit when a special festive edition of the Life On Cars magazine arrives.

As usual, it's a bit of a rundown of some of the best bits of 2012, including the not-at-all-prestigious announcement of what the best car Life On Cars has driven over the past few months is.

There have been dozens of great new cars this year, but to be in with a chance of being named Car of The Year it'll have to be at least as good as the current Ford Fiesta, the Honda CR-Z and the Citroen DS3 Racing (the winners in 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively). Even though I can only show you the cover at the moment, so far the signs are looking very good.

You can also catch up on all the old magazines - including the 2010 and 2011 Christmas specials and the current edition - by visiting the Magazines section of this blog.

The new edition will be in ready in time for Christmas...

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Life On Cars Magazine issue twelve!

IT'S back!

If the miserable weather and the clocks going back is giving you the winter blues, then the latest edition of the Life On Cars magazine should help to brighten your spirits.

  • Among the highlights of the November 2012 issue are:

  • A look at the Paris Motorshow stars conceived, designed and manufactured in Britain

  • A six page special looking back at some of the best shows across the North West this year

  • What Life On Cars thinks of the long-awaited Toyota GT-86

  • Driving thrills in North Wales with a trio of very different drivers' cars

  • The latest news and reviews

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I've enjoyed making it...



Friday, August 17, 2012

2012 Ormskirk MotorFest - Read the official magazine here!


IF YOU'RE looking forward to this year's Ormskirk MotorFest then has Life On Cars got a treat for you!

For the second year running I've been given the green light to team up with Aintree Circuit Club, the event's organisers, and produce the only magazine which has their official backing, and it's packed full of news, features and information all about the motorsport-themed event on August 26.

More than twice as long as previous Life On Cars magazines, it's a delve behind the scenes of the full throttle event taking place in Ormskirk on the Bank Holiday Sunday which I hope you'll enjoy reading as much as I've enjoyed creating.

See you there...



P.S: If you missed the chance to read the official magazine on last year's show you can check it out here.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Life On Cars: The Champion motoring roadtest directory

THOSE of you who have been following Life On Cars for the past few years will probably have worked out it's about motoring by now.

Driving cars - and more importantly, writing about them - is what this blog's always been about, and it's always heartening to see from the number of hits that people do read it and enjoy it. Which is why, in a tradition started way back in 2010, I've always liked to give something back by creating special, online-only magazines packed with features, reviews and test drives.

This isn't one of them.

There will be no tenth issue of the imaginatively-titled Life On Cars magazine but what I've got instead is something I use to show the car makers, the PR people and the SMMT that all my test drives do actually make it into print - what I call the Champion motoring roadtest directory.

Readers familiar with the motoring pages of The Champion will be familiar with its pages but for those of you who don't live in Sefton and West Lancashire - which I know is a lot of you - it's possibly the first time you'll get to see a range of test drives and Life On Cars pieces as they've appeared in print. Covering everything from the Alfa Giulietta to the Volkswagen Polo GTI, it's an exhaustive look at almost all the cars I've driven over the past year.

Of course, Life On Cars is about more than just test drives and there's all sorts of stories and reviews on the way, including I hope, for the first time ever, coverage of the simply colossal Cholmondeley Pageant of Power later this month. If it's got horsepower and at least three wheels involved, it ticks all the right boxes in my book!

Until then however, feel free to see how a whole raft of cars fared when they got The Champion roadtest treatment...


Thursday, April 26, 2012

Hot Rod, Car Craft, and the El Segundo "Automobile Driving Museum" are teaming up for car shows this summer, next one is tomorrow Friday April 27th

Makes me wonder how happy Freiburger is that he doesn't have to store any of these at his place
 Recently featured in the last 2 issues of Hot Rod magazine, this Ranchero was a tribute recreation of the late 1960's Hot Rod Magazine Ranchero that went off roading in the Carrera Panamerica (I think) and they intending this new one to go have fun in Alaska with. Yeah, intended, because that didn't happen. Instead they went to the Grand Canyon.


 Freiburger's 1970 Super Bee, and I think that hemi was one of Ray Bartons dragster engines... way over the top for a street car, and they had to rebuild it and lower the crazy aspect of some parts becaue they couldn't make it streetable.







Sunday, April 22, 2012

Friday, March 16, 2012

Life On Cars Magazine Issue Nine!


THE LATEST edition of the Life On Cars magazine is ready!

As ever it's packed with motoring features and news aplenty - including a round up of some of the stars of this year's Geneva Motorshow - and a look at two very different British sports cars.

Hope you enjoy it...


Saturday, March 10, 2012

A new magazine on the way



EAGLE-eyed readers will have already seen that work is underway on a new issue of the web magazine.

It's been a while - last Christmas, in fact - since the last issue came out, but with the weather getting a bit warmer and all sorts of interesting cars coming out of hibernation it's probably the right time to look into some great motoring stories in a bit more depth, not least the mad Morgan Threewheeler I got a taste of couple of weeks ago.

Watch this space...

Monday, January 16, 2012

Bellytankers I've photographed, but just learned about.. the Scandanavian, the Old Crow, and the Bean Bandit's bellytankers

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/scandanavian-street-rod-bellytanker-was.html
owned by Eric Hansson of Huntington Beach
200 cu in 4cyl, 320 HP, blown, Ford toploader, Ohlins coilovers on lever arms, rollbars, rack and pinion steering and Wilwood brakes
set a record in blown gas streamliner
the tank is a P-38 first built in 1952

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/old-crow-belly-tanker-gallery-i-took-at.html
Owned by Bobby Green
Old Crow Speedshop, Burbank
Period correct 1940's and 50's speed equipment
18 in Kelsey Hayes accessory disc wheels, B Block,
won 5 records, vintage 4 cyl engine classes on gas and alcohol

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/bean-bandit-crew-brought-belly-tanker.html
Ardun heads
holds two records, one at El Mirage, one at Bonneville

this post was insprired by Street Rod Premium, Winter 2012 issue who did a feature on bellytankers, pages 21 through 32
another bellytanker they featured in this article is Fred LoBellos
 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/sneek-peek-at-balboa-park-auto-museum.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/vintage-stickers-on-bonneville-racer.html

What is hiding in McLaren's sheds? Automobile Magazine's Ben Oliver found out in issue Feb 2012, page 14 and 15


great reason to get Automobile Magazine. The other reasons are Ezra Dyer's articles, Jamie Kitman's, and Robert Cumberford... and always read Jean Jennings "Vile Gossip" on the last page

Thursday, January 12, 2012

the 1955 Porsche convertible in the Arkansas Ozark woods... just one of dozens of cars found in the Ozark Natl Forrest, a Natl Park for petes sake! Perhaps they had been stolen and dumped?



Found in in this months (Feb 2012) issue of Auto Enthusiast, a good all around magazine

If you get a thrill out of learning about abandoned cars, like Barn Finds, but up for grabs because they were left in the middle of no where, on public property (the desert, the wide open places between towns in the midwest)  you might alos like a book by Will Shiers, it's called Roadside Relics. Which is on Amazon.com starting at 15 bucks used, all the way to a hundred bucks for new hardcover editions http://www.amazon.com/Roadside-Relics-Americas-Abandoned-Automobiles/dp/0760327483