There it sat, with the usual stack of junk mail and bills, the latest edition of Sports Car International, one of the best car magazines out there.
I plop it down on the coffee table, and a couple of hours later, take it out of it’s wrapper. Instead of Eric Gustofsons normal editorial, there’s a one page letter from the publisher:
That’s it, SCI is done. What you hold in your hand is the last issue.
CRAP!!
SCI was some of the best writing out there … near Peter Egan levels at times, and they always had an interesting take on interesting cars and events.
Pete Brock always did great write ups on Le Mans & Sebring and big time sportscar (or, perhaps, as the mag preferred Sports Car), and Jay Lamm, first conceived and announced his concept of the 24 Hours of LeMons in his regular collumn in the magazine.
The world changes, and what once was, a small but high quality magazine with a small but loyal niche following (e.g. guys like us that can get jazzed over a new Maserati as much as get jazzed over an old Lagonda) doesn’t have the right to exist where there are 4 score websites produced per day that give you crap re-writing about cars that have zero character for free.
Stop reading. Right now. Turn off your computer. Leave your home or work, and go down to your nearest bookstore, and buy some books; used books preferably, from a small independent bookseller. Read them, and either keep them, or give them to someone who would appreciate them when your done. Go buy a car book a week, and if at all possible, take time off from work to do it.
Source: The Mail
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