[BMWCSRegistry] To Jim

Sat Apr 12 19:02:17 EDT 2008

Jim,

I would be interested in taking a look at your magazine's web site. I 
am always looking for new car magazines. About Sports and Exotics. I 
believe you when you say they get so much wrong. And I would love to 
read a magazine that got it right. But I still enjoy looking at the 
photos and reading some of the editorial about cars I will never own or 
perhaps ever see. But if what you say is true they should be called on 
it. I taught journalism courses at my college briefly when the 
full-timer retired to the bar stool. I had an exercise where the 
students had to take an article in a daily paper and vet it. They were 
astonished to discover that the paper often got it wrong or distorted 
or failed to include a crucial piece of information.
So I understand what you are saying.

I also wish that wedding announcements and obituaries gave us the 
interesting juicy details about rap sheets, rehabs, firings,  
addictions and streakings along with the accomplishments and good deeds 
of the subject. Wouldn't that be fun.

Steve ONeill
74CSi

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Schrager <jimschrager at compuserve.com>
To: Tom Colitt <tcolt at netzero.com>
Cc: bmwcsregistry at idb.ded.forest.net; 'Jim Schrager' 
<jimschrager at compuserve.com>
Sent: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 3:47 pm
Subject: RE: [BMWCSRegistry] Hemmings

This is a really good point, and I agree.  I just
wish they would tell me that!  "We are writing
about a driver, and of course, for a 280SL, there
is a whole world of really nice cars that sell
at far higher prices and get all the details right."

They seem to act like their little world of
semi-beaters is all that exists and that it is
special, and while I understand and feel most
of my cars are just drivers, I don't see anything
interesting or exceptional about partially
restored cars done by amateurs with almost all
the important stuff screwed up.  There is nothing
wrong with that, I just don't find it worthy
of a magazine, nor do I find it instructive.

But maybe that's just me.

Best regards, Jim Schrager

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From:   "Tom Colitt", INTERNET:tcolt at netzero.com
To: "'Jim Schrager'", jimschrager

CC: , INTERNET:bmwcsregistry at idb.ded.forest.net

Date:   4/12/2008  1:12 PM

RE: RE: [BMWCSRegistry] Hemmings

They recently had an article on the Mercedes 280SL as well and had the
prices pegged somewhere in the $40000 range. I just put way over 
$100,000
into a 1969 280SL. They are not far for a nice used car, but don't they
cater to the "collector"?

Regards, Tom

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Schrager
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:43 AM
To: INTERNET:bmwcsregistry at idb.ded.forest.net; jim s
Subject: [BMWCSRegistry] Hemmings

I'm of a different opinion on the Hemmings Sports Car magazine, having
subscribed from day one.
Whenever they write about a car I know really well, like a Porsche 356 
or
911, I can't believe how many mistakes they publish.  I haven't seen the
latest issue on the CS, and I am not that knowledgable on the CS 
myself, but
I can't imagine they do much of a good job on anything.
I far prefer Sports Car Market magazine (but of course that may be 
because I
write for it).  In SCM, we really sweat the details and make sure the 
info
we provide is correct.  Just my 3.0 cents.
Best regards, Jim Schrager
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