Car Guy Magazine Car Guy Magazine Issue 914 | Page 6

O kay, do we really need yet another automotive magazine? Probably not, but here at Car Guy Magazine we really don’t care about the other publications out there. Yeah we read them. It’s hard to pass up $6 subscriptions to Road & Track, Car & Driver, Motor Trend and so on for the print copies. In fact I have a big stack of them piled almost two feet high next to me on my desk along with a few months of “Handyman” as well for good measure. But now these publications are charging for their digital editions in addition to the print subscription. I thought, well okay, let’s do our own magazine with the stuff in it that we want to read as an option to or perhaps in addition to the other big rags AND we’d do it ONLY as a Digital Magazine, which saves huge bucks on printing and postage. We would include VIDEO from a really cool TV Show that we know of called “The Car Guy Show.” We’d also offer this ultra cool Digital Magazine FREE to our subscribers and count on the premise that advertisers would jump on board to reach our wonderful readers, who are ready to purchase their products and services. So, dear readers, PLEASE READ the ads and CALL those advertisers to thank them for allowing YOU to read FREE content in Car Guy Magazine! The truth is that personally, I don’t really want to do anything else. I got the bug big time from publishing the regional automotive magazine Texas Driver years ago and later the awardwinning national magazine American Driver. Unfortunately the economy and the automotive manufacturer’s bankruptcies pretty much killed our publishing dreams at that time. What’s different now? By taking out the cost of printing and following the growing trend that auto enthusiast readers are jumping on the smartphone and tablet bandwagon for their automotive magazine “fix” we might be able to make it work this time. And, as I mentioned earlier, I don’t want to do anything else. So, I have to make it work! I hope you enjoy this first humble issue of Car Guy Magazine. We promise to make each issue better than the last, so please stick with us as it continues to evolve into the publication that every “car guy” will enjoy and approve! I know it will be a bumpy ride but with your help we’ll finish with something we can be proud of every month. Sincerely, Tim Miller [email protected] 4 CarGuyMagazine.com the publisher’s note