GMHTP Rick Jensen is LEAVING and not soon enough!

[turbobuick]

I have been a subscriber since the first issue and I just canceled my subscription. Much to my surprise in my last issue I find RIck Jensen is finally leaving. Good bye and Good riddance. I have been trying for 3 years to get even a simple blurb in GMHTP about our point series without even so much as a return e-mail. You would think a multi race series with 1000+HP GM street cars could at least get a stupid mention?? The freakin LTX shootout with 20 cars and a single race got a 4 page article

When Hunkins left that mag went downhill. It's a shame that unless you are giving the editor parts or working on his car for free you can't get any press from them. What a joke!

Hopefully the new editor is a little more impartial and in touch with the racing community. BTW this isn't meant to be slam on the vendors who advertise and had articles written about them in GMHTP. I am happy for ANY Buick media coverage and I think the Buick vendors represented the Buick community well. I wouldn't be posting this if I would've got a simple response to just one of the multiple e-mails, phone calls and posts I made on the GMHTP bulletin board.

 

[TType84]

we talked about this in another thread.

the general viewpoint is that we all doubt a new editor is going to do anything to put more buicks in the magazine than rick did.

 

[V6gofast]

When Hunkins left that mag went downhill. It's a shame that unless you are giving the editor parts or working on his car for free you can't get any press from them. What a joke!


CHRIS ,
You just answered your own question all you had to do was .............
I don't know build him a motor ...........give him a car maybe just a ride in a
fast car would have been enough!

 

[scot w.]

I have been a subscriber since the first issue and I just canceled my subscription. Much to my surprise in my last issue I find RIck Jensen is finally leaving. Good bye and Good riddance. I have been trying for 3 years to get even a simple blurb in GMHTP about our point series without even so much as a return e-mail. You would think a multi race series with 1000+HP GM street cars could at least get a stupid mention?? The freakin LTX shootout with 20 cars and a single race got a 4 page article

When Hunkins left that mag went downhill. It's a shame that unless you are giving the editor parts or working on his car for free you can't get any press from them. What a joke!

Hopefully the new editor is a little more impartial and in touch with the racing community. BTW this isn't meant to be slam on the vendors who advertise and had articles written about them in GMHTP. I am happy for ANY Buick media coverage and I think the Buick vendors represented the Buick community well. I wouldn't be posting this if I would've got a simple response to just one of the multiple e-mails, phone calls and posts I made on the GMHTP bulletin board.

I agree! I'm just glad I don't have to see that same old corny picture of him when he was young in every single magazine!! He must of really been proud of that one single pic!

Yeah he put some articals in there but fadded bad towards the end. A while back GMHTP called me and asked why I canceled my subscription, My reply was simple "because you cut out doing coverage on buicks"!!! They just replied "Okay, Thanks" and that was it.

The bottom line is these magazines go after "whats hot at the moment"!!! TO THEM our cars were hot back in the day and now there is a new toy on the block OR a "New Craze"..

TIP: Send pictures of your car to Popular Hot Rodding and ask to be entered in the "Hometown Hot rodding" (kind of like readers rides) and you will have a good chance of getting in..

 

[Chuck Leeper]

Economics.. Plain and simple.
There were never enough Buicks produced, to create a market for the aftermkt parts producers.
A magazine publisher survives on advertizing revenues, not subscription income.
Therefore, they must direct the coverage to cars that are the "bread & butter" for the advertizing vendors.
You can bet yourazz, that the Camaro guys, the Corvette guys, all complain that thier cars don't get the ink they deserve.. You just don't hear about it.
I don't condone the fact that the editor is/was a di$k. He could have just as easily responded to an email, and avoided the problem....
Back under my rock...

 

[HighPSI]

You just answered your own question all you had to do was .............
I don't know build him a motor ...........give him a car maybe just a ride in a
fast car would have been enough!

Well since I am the only one to build him a motor, I feel inclined to respond. I was involved in some tech articles BEFORE his engine build and my car was featured BEFORE the engine build. Some of my customers cars were featured after the buildup, but, they were in the magazine on their own merit.

They have always done a decent job covering the GS Nationals. Hopefully the new editor won't forget the Buick events.

With the new Camaro coming out, it will be interesting to see how much content on our 20+ year old cars get.

 

[batmansbuick]

Yes, they did step up on the GS Nats coverage the past few years. The older articles on Cal and the 'All TR' issues were great. But I think its just a matter of supply and demand. The new Camaro will probably be all over that mag very soon.

 

[turbobuick]

My bitch isn't that GMHTP isn't printing as many TR articles as they used too. It is that Rick is a joke and has zero ethical standards as a journalist. With as old as these cars are I'm surprised Musclecar Review isn't running more articles on them

I agree they did a good job covering the GSCA. Especially when they mentioned Avon's TSO win in 2007 and put a picture of someone else's car Good job!

 

[turbobuick]

It is that Rick is a joke and has zero ethical standards as a journalist.

I just thought that needed repeating

 

[bad V6]

With as old as these cars are I'm surprised Musclecar Review isn't running more articles on them

Unfortunately, I don't think that any other magazine will have show much interest in our cars. They don't want our little v6's showing up their Chevys, Fords, or Mopars. Much the way that the NMCA doesn't recognize Buicks in the breakdown for their classes.

"We're like the little kid nobody wants to play with."

Pat

 

[turbofish38]

With as old as these cars are I'm surprised Musclecar Review isn't running more articles on them.

And there's another dandy! Don't expect any ink for our cars from that rag either. Let me tell of the time I sent them an e-mail requesting less ink on the new Ford Mustang and Dodge Hemi and more ink on "The Lost Generation of Muscle Cars" as I called it back than. Now I call them the "Square Headlight Era" cars.You know. G-Bodies,F-Bodies and Z51 Corvettes. Anyway they replied back and it wasn't very pretty. More or less a word for word quote here. "Nobody Gives A Damn About Cars With Computers". I guess those boneheads were really stuck in the 60's. What the F! is controlling those Mustangs and Hemis?

 

[SIXBANGR]

Funny thing is, musclecar review used to cover these cars when they were new. So did That old Turbo mag.

 

[Bent6]

Turbo - now there's one that's completely sold out to the ricers. As for Jenson and GMHTP - I'm not trying to speak for his ethical standards because I don't know anything there but the one time he came by my pit at BG he seemed okay to me. I do think our Buicks probably got the amount of coverage they did because he happened to own one and was into building his up. Unfortunately I don't see that continuing especially with the new Camaro coming down the line. I for one can't wait to pull up next to some punk in his shiny new Camaro thinking he's the baddest thing on the street - that is until he gets it handed to him by a little 20+ year old, old school, SOHC, pushrod, port-injected artifact of a V6 - and a BUICK at that!

 

[86brick]

I personally think Rick did a great job in covering our Buicks, but as in most things in life you can never make everyone happy!

 

[rick j.]

Chris,

Stating the fact that I apparently ignored your emails/calls in my years at GMHTP is completely fine and unfortunately, probably true as there were literally thousands of emails that never got returned.

But for the record, I think you should explain your correlation between not returning an email or covering your event, and "Rick is a joke and has zero ethical standards as a journalist" as I believe you are out of line here.

Please be specific, and anyone who feels the same way, please jump in with your thoughts and I'll be happy to discuss.

Rick Jensen
Apparent Unethical Joke Of A Journalist

 

[GNBRETT]

They have always done a decent job covering the GS Nationals. Hopefully the new editor won't forget the Buick events.

Yea, the Nationals were about the only things covered over the last few years Cal. Although Jack was getting some press there for a while but then the TB coverage just seemed to drop off instantly. It's sad when I go to Barnes and Noble and don't even look for a Hightech magazine these days.

The new Camaro might make them even more obsolete I agree. They are pretty badazz tho.

 

[turbobuick]

Chris,

Stating the fact that I apparently ignored your emails/calls in my years at GMHTP is completely fine and unfortunately, probably true as there were literally thousands of emails that never got returned.

How exactly does the editor of a magazine that specializes in high performance fuel injected GM hot rods completely miss the fact that point series is being run at multiple events with 1000+HP, mid 8 second street cars? How many F-body or GM anything is doing something similar?

You didn't just "miss/ignore" my e-mails, calls, letters you also ignored my posts on the GMHTP BB, and you even failed to accurately cover the racers and winners at the events you were at and covered. Did you just mss the countless threads and discussions on at least 4 different BB's over the TSO class? I have also told MANY MANY people in your circle of Buick friends about your continued ignorance and how I felt about you and GMHTP. On top of that I spent at least an hour in BG last year discussing this and the point series with the GMHTP reporter that was there covering the story and still nothing.

But for the record, I think you should explain your correlation between not returning an email or covering your event, and "Rick is a joke and has zero ethical standards as a journalist" as I believe you are out of line here.

Please be specific, and anyone who feels the same way, please jump in with your thoughts and I'll be happy to discuss.

Rick Jensen
Apparent Unethical Joke Of A Journalist

I said what I wanted to say and you did what you wanted to do so here we are. Don't sit here and act naive about this as that is a bunch of crap and you know it. So unless I "donate" parts for your car or completely blast you on the internet, this is the only way to reach the editor of GMHTP?

 

[XXQUICK6XX]

I for one do appreciate the stuff you did Rick and most people seem to forget that some is better than none!!! I personally never tried to featere any of my cars but still enjoyed the way they covered what they did. And bottom line is they are in the market to make money and there are not enough of us to support a dedicated magazine.

Steve Pitts

 

[QuickBuick87]

I for one do appreciate the stuff you did Rick and most people seem to forget that some is better than none!!! I personally never tried to featere any of my cars but still enjoyed the way they covered what they did. And bottom line is they are in the market to make money and there are not enough of us to support a dedicated magazine.

Steve Pitts

X2 No problem here either. I always thought they (GMHTP) did a pretty good job of covering such a small segment of GM EFI cars such as the Turbo Regals. Hopefully they'll continue covering TR's in the future.

Ken

 

[8AV8]

What other magazine has semi-regular articles about our cars?

None.

You just can't keep folks from complaining no matter what you do.


How many articles about puting a downpipe on a TR do you really need to see?

The coverage of the events MIGHT be proportional to the event count....which is on a steady rate of decline....like the amount of money the racers get.