Article our cars got in hotrod magazine...

[Turbo6Smackdown]

Hey guys, I know youre like me, and flip thru hot rod magazines while at meijer or the grocery store, so tell me what magazine this was I was looking at. Was about 6 months ago, at 'rite aid' drug store. I THINK it was called popular hotrodding? All i know is, in the first say, 5, 6 pages of the mag, there was a page set aside for the editor to just talk about what he wanted to talk about. Well in this particular month, he was talking about the best overall muscle car out. He started off the article, about how even though the old school 60's muscle cars were fast, they were only fast for THEIR eras. Quoting the hemi cuda and such. So I keep reading, and low and behold, he finishes the article with " I think the best overall muscle car to ever be produced, was the buick grand nationals. They can be made to go the fastest, with the least amount of mods "

I was like 'woah, hey honey, come read this....' Anyone spot this article?

[Renthorin]

Hey Tony. Did you ever find out what magazine it was in?

I tried to look at the back issues online for Popular Hotrodding magazine but on dialup....it was an exercise in pain!

If you can find out what mag it was I bet we can order a back issue and add one to our collections

[Turbo6Smackdown]

nope. no luck as of yet. will let ya know when / if i find it though!

[Turbo6Smackdown]

I think, its the july 2006 issue. anyone have this? if so, could you please check the first few couple pages in it, to see if this is in fact, the issue where the author talks about the turbo regals?

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[Renthorin]

Yeah, I think that IS the right one. Check this:

July 2006 Popular Hot Rodding Table of Contents

They can be purchased here....I just ordered one :-)

Primedia - Backissues: POPULAR HOT RODDING JULY 2006

[MeanBuicks]

Don't know about that particular editorial but there's one in the January 2007 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines by Ray Bohacz that speaks highly of turbo Buicks. He starts out by recalling the largest displacement engines available back in the day and then explains how he learned about turbocharging.

Excerpt:

I vividly remember my first exposure to a then-new 1978 four-barrel turbo Regal. I was at a stoplight in my '68 Slant-Six Dodge Dart when the hair dryer-equipped Buick pulled up next to me.

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Just then, the Regal lurched forward and pulled a few car lengths ahead of my Dodge, before the brake lights came on and we both had to stop. It was me who suffered humiliation as we waited for the light to turn green.

That moment cemented in my mind the virtue of forced induction. A short 10 years later I would open up a shop that specialized in tuning late model performance cars with an emphasis on the Buick GN and eventually the 20th Anniversary Turbo Trans-Am. The most power I ever made with an engine was 1,312 horsepower on John Meaney's dyno in Michigan. It was a 4.1 liter Buick V-6 with aftermarket symetrical port cylinder heads and a custom manifold. It featured twin turbos and 160 pound/hour fuel injectors.

That humiliating day in 1978 was the catalyst for my interest in turbos that eventually opened the door for my writing career. I guess I work best "under pressure."

[Turbo6Smackdown]

sweet article.
and renthorin, that buick article, is i think a 455 buildup, if im not mistaken.

the article im referring to, is pretty much just a page set aside, for the writer to just babble i think. i think its the 5th page in or so. but im almost positive thats the book i was lookin at. Ill find it. if its the last thing i gotta do.

[turbofish38]

That Ray Bohacz is starting to get on my nerves. If I ever meet him in person I'm going to kick him in the turbine after I give him a piece of my mind. If he was so impressed by the turbo Buick than why doesn't he own one? Here check out this thread and scroll down to my link TurboBuicks.com - Hemmings Muscle Machines Article on TPS

Impressed? Yeah Right! Make sure you click on the PHR link and read what he says about the carb turbo.

A first class a$$clown IMO. We could do with out his opinion and commentary.

[odell4o8]

Lee thompsons hot air blue t-type was on the cover of hotrodding mag, back in 95 i think was the year i forgot the month he still has a copy,

[Turbo6Smackdown]

Yea, I admit, the earlier turbo cars werent miracles, but, that just means you gotta know what youre doing a little more now, thats all. They run fine I thought. If I had the money, Id love to experiment on an all black or burgundy 80 sport coupe. It would be quite fun.

[Turbo6Smackdown]

hey renthorin. did you ever get that popular hotrodding mag yet?

[Renthorin]

Yup. All done looking at the pictures too

Some cool stuff in there. You want to borrow sometime you can.

[Turbo6Smackdown]

cool thank you.. but did you find that one dudes little 'opinion article' ? id say it was like 7 or so pages in, and it took up i think, most of the page. and it was him detailing his opinons on the best bang for the buck, as far as muscle cars. and he described the old school muslce cars, as being 'not as fast as you think they were', and how the buicks, could whoop pretty much anything around, for less than x amunt of money. was that article in there?

[Renthorin]

Nope no TR articles in the magazine that I can find.

You can still borrow though

[Turbo6Smackdown]

hmmmm maybe ill call them guys, and find out that way. i WILL find that article.

[Turbo6Smackdown]

OKAY, that was about useless. None of their email addresses are working either. Primedia sucks... They just throw me to some editor, that wasnt even there...

[Renthorin]

Are you looking for Popular Hotrodding or Hot Rod magazine?

You mention PHR often but the thread title is HR mag....

I never checked the back issues of HR mag but might do that today from work while 'on my break'.....

[jsta6]

Originally Posted by Turbo6Smackdown

OKAY, that was about useless. None of their email addresses are working either. Primedia sucks... They just throw me to some editor, that wasnt even there...

Isn't one of the guys a sometimes member of this board. Username is GMHTP or something. Also try camaroz28.com or whatever the sister board used to be called (when they were both owned by Jason).

[Renthorin]

GMHTP was the guy who worked with GMHTP magazine. He might keep tabs on what the other rags publish....worth a shot.