In fact, when it comes down to it, most of the 126 years is cactus-dry compared to the kind of stuff the likes of Car & Driver were putting out in the 1960s and 1970s, and I say that having written some of it.īut as a record, it’s hard to beat. I’ve actually flicked through the physical bound volumes before, and the 1890s stuff makes a telephone directory feel lively. Not many people are going to find themselves wading through the really early years unless they’re doing a serious historical project. Related: Spotify’s Car Thing Waiting List Surpasses 2 Million Mark As Chip Supply Throttles Production
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The world’s oldest surviving car mag, Autocar was first published in 1895 when there were just six cars on Britain’s roads, meaning Archive Digital, the company doing the scanning and uploading, had to digitize 6,180 issues and over 1.2 million pages. We’re talking a forest’s worth of car literature. British weekly magazine Autocar has just launched a subscription service that allows members to access almost every issue it has ever produced for £7.99 ($11) per month, or £74.99 ($103) annually, with a concession for subscribers to the current print product. I remember setting off for the two-day drive from the UK to Malaga in the south of Spain in a Porsche 911 GT3 for a rendezvous with the then-new BMW M3 with two bags: one full of clothes, the other crammed with enough CDs to keep me sane (European radio is awful).Īnd now it looks like a similar miniaturization process is about to take place with my sprawling collection of old car magazines. Fifteen years ago things weren’t so simple. Now you can call up anything from the latest K-Pop tune to a Bach cello suite at the push of a virtual button.Ĭompanies like Spotify have crammed millions of songs, or at least access to them, into something the size of a pack of playing cards. Satellite radio gave us access to dozens more stations, but the real game changer was Apple’s iPod, followed by streaming.
It’s easy to forget how easy music lovers have got it these days.
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