Back in the late 90's through mid 00's, that magazine was my favorite monthly passtime. I loved the project cars, the engineering ramblings, the silly experiments. IMO, it was the best car mag that has ever been.
Maybe this is old news, but my buddy just turned me on to
http://www.motoiq.com and guess what, Mike Kojima and Dave Coleman are main contributors. A lot of the artcles and projects follow the same format as SCC. I am a happy man