I agree with RDL! A cooler?.....well.... I guess coolers are a pretty big part of the race. :laugh: RDL for Prime Minister!
RDL would not let us down, that's for sure. I look forward to seeing a practice article on how it should have been done this year :TU: !!!!!! I still don't know what went on this year other than a rainout on Friday. Jim
Well, I should be able to get my son, who will be 10 next year, to grab the video camera and record a little bit on each car with the owner, that way we could sort through the tape after the event and look for good stories to tell. And my friend Duane would probably come back to take a shipload of pics again, so event pictures shouold be plentiful.......... I am in...........or should I say, if invited, I am in.
Hey Donny... did the Stude guys do a video tape of the '05 PSMCDR ? That would be a lot more interesting than a picture of Brian pulling a cold one from the cooler. :laugh: and it looks like the link to the 2005 Martin pictures at the bottom of your posts doesn't work anymore.
Yeah, Jerry Palma did video, it should be done by now. I looked and my friend has removed the photos from his website, so I will delete the link .....
John: Yes, Bob Palma did do an excellent job from the Pure Stock race in Sep 2005. I put an advance payment on one at the race and got it within a week.
You say Bob, I say Jerry,.....hell for all we know, it's might be Steve Palma all those Stude guys look the same :rant: just kidding, it is Bob, do you have his contact info Dave ??
Calling me out, huh? Put my money where my big fat mouth is? Come on, everyone knows its easier just to be a critic and all-round sour puss... :grin: There certainly is a good cross section of the event present in the people who attend this forum. No doubt if everyone pitched in there would be enough material to create the germ of a good article with a different slant. But who would want the story now? It's not fresh anymore, unless a magazine is ready to pick it up for a Spring print. All kidding aside, humbly I'd be glad to help too if there's enough momentum and a reason to do so. Though we'd be taking on something that other's arguably more capable (ie., Tom Shaw) get paid to do. I wonder if that might undermine his efforts in the hobby? Truth be told, (and it's no secret) I think there are a lot of untold stories about the event, and the goings on behind the scene, that could make for entertaining reading. Race reports aside, there are rivalries; personality rubs and quirks; technique and technical details; and an entire "parking lot and pit culture" to talk about. Sound dull? Anyway, I don't know anything about the publishing business, but that's probably more than one article depending on space allocation. Also, given publication slants (based on readership and advertiser base) there'll likely be ground rules and we probably won't have final editorial say. Have I succeeded in dampening any spirits? p
You 130 Pure Stock guys seem to think that the rest of the world gives a rat's a$$ and wants to read about your little soiree. Heck, I visit this website just for the free beer and the hope that Dave H. will hijack the thread and post another picture of an Oldsmobile. :laugh:
Pop a Ridalin, Brian, it's a long one... "Personality rubs and quirks", "parking lot and pit culture"? We are still talking about a magazine article here, and not a mini-series or a "Lifetime" made for tv movie, right? :grin: Other than the couple hundred or so folks that are directly invovled in Pure Stock, how many of the other 50,000+ readers are gonna know, or more importantly "care", about who has the deepest cooler, or best bar-b-que, or even who thinks so & so's Pontiac is to fast? You have to realize, an article doesn't get in unless the editor/publisher effectively 'buys' it...and they're gonna go after what they feel a large portion of their readers want to see and will understand...the racing is where it's at. I've been fighting this for 9+ years now with coverage for our own event, and it's always been like trying to piss up a rope, even when there was a freelance writer/photographer sent from the magazine! I'm not trying to rain on your parade, as I'm all about waving the Pure Stock banner, just as I have since 1999. But being as the editor of MCE was the one that did the article for this year's event (as well as the previous 2 years), I might look at other publications...but the better majority of the other mags are brand or model slanted, so you're cutting your audience & content pool down considerably. But, if you're still interested, I'd be glad to help with contacts or content or whatever in any way I can...just say the word.
Sage points Rob. Applying the captioned logic, conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that the readership preferred a story about the drive to Stanton. I promised I'd stop already (so I'm a big mouth and a liar now), but I have one more thing to add. The most successful pop culture television progamming format is the reality show. TV shows effectively about nothing but the trials and tribulations of human interaction. I would point to American Hot Rod as one example, Pinks as another, together with every other tuner show. "Personality rubs and quirks" and "parking lot and pit culture" are, in my view, the ink version of what seems to be selling a lot of commercial airtime on the specialty channels. Maybe I'm flat out wrong; maybe no magazine gives a rat's @$$ whether I am or not. But I'd bet steelies to dogdishes that if someone polled the readership, it would come back that they'd rather read about this stuff.
Big mouth and a liar -- I certainly have the makings for office. I'm not running thanks, ... although funny enough I will accept your campaign contributions. :moonu:
February MCE Just got my Feb issue,there's a article about a 70 superbee that was built for PS,is that 70floridabee that's sometime on our site here? There's also one about a talladega that i saw this year at the drags.About the poor coverage of this years event,we should all write them a letter telling them what we want to see,im sure they would respond to their readers.
oemmaxine: Yep that is my car. Now I hope I can get up to the northland some time this year and make the PSMCDR as it looks like a great race to go to! :grin:
