Missing Stock&Super Stock Magazine.

[cicero819]

I can`t believe that Drag Racing cannot support more than one magazine, I miss the great articles penned by Woody Hatten, Steve Collison(I know that they have pass on) and Dale Wilson. Bracket USA was another great Magazine that had many articles of class racers and their race cars. Drag Racing Action unfortunately is too proForce and the rest of the clowns and way too much product mini commercials and endorcement. Miss the great Mr. Dirt articles, even Car-Craft White Lightning with Reher-Morisson Corvette articles. Unfortunately you can forget National Dragster also have become a pro rag. Just my own opinon. CR p.s. I forgot Drag racing online is one bight light.

[Hemi Moose]

...yeah I sure do miss reading all of those old SS&DI issues, great articles & photo features.

[Ed Fernandez]

Remember the old saying "you can never go back".Like many things in our lives (I'm talking about us gezzers over 60 years old) it will never be as it was.Thank God we have our memories(till dementia takes over,or we're called back by our maker).









8 more to go.

[Geerhead55]

Went up in the attic, little more than a year ago, to look up an article in one of my SS&DI issues. It always bugged me that my collection started with issue #2, Dec '64,, so I decided to pull them all out and see how many I was missing overall. I found that out of nearly 35 years of publication, I was only missing 28 issues,, so that started my quest to get them all. Through swap meets and E-bay, I accomplished my mission just before the holidays last year. Sometimes I had to buy duplicates to get the few I needed, so I have many extras, including 4 #1s. Of course by doing this, I've taken the most mint copies for my collection, and have bagged, boarded and boxed them up. I've also been able to find most of the "Photo Greats" albums and "Poster" albums.
I've always felt that Super Stock & Drag Illustrated magazine was the best at what it did, and I was sorry when it was dropped from publication in '99. I'd love to see something similar take its place, because with all due respect, the current drag magazines out there don't compare to the original article. My 2 cents.
Danny Durham

[bill dedman]

What galls me about that deal was HOW SS&DI was "executed."

AS I UNDERSTAND IT, Petersen Publishing (or, maybe one of its successors, but I think this happened before it was sold,) bought it, then sent "Junior Stock Johnny Dianna" personally, out to the East Coast (Alexandria, Virginia) to SHUT IT DOWN.

Which, he did. It MUST have hurt him to do that....

If Petersen had had something to replace it, I could KIND OF understand that way of doing business (No, I couldn't,) but the truth was, they didn't (and HAVEN'T) had anything remotely like it since then.

Steve Collison was bery, bery, good to me, publishing every article I ever sent him, and I am no Mr. Dirt, believe me!!!

It sticks in my craw to this day, they way they killed that magazine and left the market to wither and die.

Shame on them!!!

I don't have them anymore but, I bought every issue of that magazine from vol. I, #1 (I think it was Sept., 1964,) 'til it was killed...

And, yes I miss it!!!!

[Tom keedle]

soooooo, who WAS Mr. Dirt, anyway?

[Earle Holt]

The current Drag Racing Action magazine is the closest I've seen to these magazines you've mentioned. You can tell its edited by a real sportsman racer. Ive subscribed since its inception and plan to continue that as long as it stays mostly a sportsman mag.

[owen]

Bret Kepner.

[Bret Kepner]

Says who?

[Mike Fuller]

Originally Posted by Earle Holt

The current Drag Racing Action magazine is the closest I've seen to these magazines you've mentioned. You can tell its edited by a real sportsman racer. Ive subscribed since its inception and plan to continue that as long as it stays mostly a sportsman mag.

Your right Earl. It is just about the best mag out there for my money. Once I started reading it I dropped my Hot Rod subscription.