SEMA has announced its industry-leading SEMA Magazine is now available to everyone for free in a digital format ( I have not seen a single issue of this while at SEMA this past week)

https://sema.secure.darwin.cx/L4NLVGSS

https://www.sema.org/news-media/enews/2024/45/announced-2024-show-sema-magazine-now-available-everyone-free-digital/-24ss

Ford fans can now access Ford Times from 1964-1981 via the Heritage Vault.

 

https://fordauthority.com/2024/04/ford-times-magazines-become-public-via-ford-heritage-vault/

Lowrider magazine died in 2019. But now, Dr. Denise Sandoval, a university professor of Chicana/o studies, has partnered with MotorTrend magazines to make an online digital issue of Lowrider magazine by women, for women, for the obvious publicity, and to champion a cause.

Dr. Sandoval shared how it was a true passion project working on this all-women issue of Lowrider magazine. 

With lowriding popularity at an all-time high, combined with the rise of car clubs exclusively for women members and car clubs led by women, 2024 felt like the perfect moment to spotlight the women who haven’t always received recognition but who have impacted lowrider culture.

This limited-edition revival highlights the women behind the wheel who have fought for their place as drivers, builders, mechanics, painters and welders in a car community few women ever are interested in.

To access the digital version of the issue: https://www.motortrend.com/plus/magazines/lowrider-special-edition-2024/issue/652907

https://northcountrynow.com/premium/brandpoint/stories/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-remaking-of-lowrider-magazine,230375

https://www.motortrend.com/lowrider/

the most obvious thing they forgot, was to remove the mustache from the Lowrider Magazine logo, 

It's pretty cool that some comanies have put the entire archive of their magazines online. I just learned that Mopar Collectors Guide has. (Hot Rod announced they had, and a decade ago Marvel put all their past comic books online)

 

https://moparcollectorsguide.com/mcgnewcart/2024-digital-login-page-settings/

George tipped me off to this online magazine, ReInCarNation

https://www.rcnmag.com/ezines

This was printed monthly and mailed free of charge. After a while they printed it every other month, finally it went to digital only. 

They finally ceased publishing entirely but have left all issues (cover to cover) on line and they are downloadable. Lots of interesting cars!

look at this magazine cover art... WOW

I've never came across Otto Brennemann's art or illustrations before

I was looking for info on the flying catamaran airplane that Air Via Transport Company of New York had Lewis A Yancey piloting, that I posted last week... https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/03/cool-design-similar-to-that-1929-italia.html

When I came across this amazing magazine cover art on Google Books! YAY! I hope you enjoy reading magazines, and love that these are digital, free, incredibly interesting, and lit by your computer/tablet/laptop monitor for optima viewing!

And it's FULL of cool stuff, like these patents! Here's one from Brunelli!! I was just posting (or adding to old posts) about the Burnelli aircraft! 

Since I was looking up Yancey's aircraft, this advertisement led me to this magazine on Google Books.. 

https://books.google.com/books?id=XEogxsXaMNsC&pg=PA117&dq=%22Lewis+A+Yancey%22+Transport+Company+of+New+York&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-xOGZkdL9AhWDiO4BHdMqAQ4Q6AF6BAgSEAI#v=onepage&q&f=false

more proof that there is a magazine for everything, there's this online one for helicopters and autogyros

https://docplayer.net/48684611-Winter-2013-including-gyroplanes-helicopter-life-is-the-high-life.html

RM Sotheby's now has an online magazine

 https://online.fliphtml5.com/rxtcb/gwsy/#p=1

Beginning Nov. 1, all 74 years of Hot Rod Magazines will be available online, free, in PDF format, on MotorTrend+... provided you sign up for an account with Motor Trend. I guess that means getting their app? Or accessing through their website

Hot Rod says they’ve digitized more than 128,000 pages of their magazine from more than 900 issues. That’s hundreds of thousands of photos, ads, and books of stories

https://www.thedrive.com/news/hot-rod-magazine-will-post-every-from-1948-to-2021-online-for-free

https://www.motortrend.com/news/hot-rod-magazine-archive-release/

I just learned there is a Lincoln car club magazine, and a Lincoln museum, the Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum, is part of the Gilmore Museum (thank you Graham!) just North of Kalamazoo Mi

the Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum https://www.lincolncarmuseum.org/

the online magazine https://www.lincolncarmuseum.org/images/pdf/LincolnLink_Spring_2017a.pdf

in you want to read the newspapers, like this example from 1916, from California, there's a website that has them scanned, and it's real nice, and free

 https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19161001.1.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

by the way, you can read the Stutz Club magazine online

https://issuu.com/rdaeger/docs/stutznewsissue89/3

online digital magazine about vintage racing

 

at https://www.flipsnack.com/victorylane/victory-lane-vol-36-no-7-july-2021/full-view.html?fbclid=IwAR0veUaCzcqElbwr198IuAyKMzrFDGZizwnBC8ndgImTc0PiTeIJbC39UTo

online magazine about San Francisco history

https://www.outsidelands.org/publications/

in 1908, members of the legislature voted unanimously to ban all automobiles from Prince Edward Island. Thanks Andrew P !

 Ultimately the benefits of the new "automobile tourism" could not be ignored. 

The ban was partially lifted in 1913, allowing motoring on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

 In 1918, the act was revoked altogether.

https://www-archives.ingeniumcanada.org/canadiancar/eng/frise_chronologique-timeline/1900/index.html

http://vre2.upei.ca/islandmagazine/fedora/repository/vre%3Aislemag-batch2-70/OBJ

In partnership with the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, the Robertson Library has digitized 62 issues of Island Magazine collection.

There are a lot of free online magazines you can flip through

https://issuu.com/vintageeaa/docs/va-vol-46-no-6-nov-dec-2018

I just learned that Caterpillar has a magazine, online digital and free

http://d3taka8n2yszky.cloudfront.net/issue_3_2019/2167-Caterpillar_SARL-GB/index-h5.html#page=1

I just learned of an online digital magazine about the used car world

https://www.autoremarketing.com/ar-digital-archive

Really intricate piece of art

A reverse image search on Google did not turn up the artists name, but somehow Steve pulled some magic out of his hat, or did some arcane work, and FOUND this piece of art in a 1938 Aviation Week magazine, which IS ONLINE and that's a lot of amazing... not only can we flip through a 1938 magazine, online, it's got this piece of art. Still no artist to credit, but WOW

https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/permalink/10157257281169556/
https://archive.org/details/Aviation_Week_1938-12-01/page/n19

Thanks Steve!

ever hear about Burnside skatepark in Portland?

Back in 1990, motivated by the lack of parks in the area, a renegade group of skaters focused their creative energy into pouring concrete under a bridge in a neglected part of Portland, constructing a renegade three-foot-tall by three-foot-wide bank against a slanted wall under the Burnside Bridge.

There was garbage and graffiti everywhere, so the skateboarders started cleaning it up and introducing themselves to local business owners. Ultimately, the skaters persuaded city officials to let them keep building because they turned an eyesore into an attraction.

Over the following years, that initial undertaking eventually evolved into a 10,000-square-foot legit park, arguably the most famous DIY project in the world. It also spawned a modern concrete skatepark revolution that became prevalent in the North-western U.S and beyond.

To say Portland’s concrete park scene has evolved quite a bit since that first lump of concrete was shaped in 1990 is obviously an understatement. And that evolution sparked what is currently one of the strongest riding scenes in the country, as Shad elaborates: “When I first moved here in the early 90s, there were like ten dudes who rode. Now there are hundreds.”

While Portland has many attributes that contributed to the abundance of riders, one significant reason is access to the many concrete parks all over the area. With fifteen more slated to be built in the Portland area, and an additional five alone in Vancouver, Washington in the next ten years, Portland will be even more of a cement transition Mecca.

https://www.redbull.com/us-en/theredbulletin/DIY-Skatepark-Treasure-Island-In-Bay-Area
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/concrete-paradise-2016-28-08

By the way, if you want to read Red Bulletin online, https://issuu.com/redbulletin.com