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Anybody remember Sport Compact Car mag?

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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 10:49 AM
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Default Anybody remember Sport Compact Car mag?

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
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 10:59 AM
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still have a lot of my old SCC issues in boxes in storage
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 11:07 AM
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that magazine was so awesome
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 11:13 AM
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Interesting, I'll have to check it out. I was a subscriber from '01-'04, but around the end of that time the magazine was going rapidly downhill. But it had some awesome reads.

The weight reduction Sentra and the Dave Point articles were a couple of my faves.

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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 11:33 AM
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they had a special honda issue and it covered motor swaps. it had every engine code at the time. and what cars they would fit in and stuff. what kind of transmission and assembly, etc.. it was an awesome issue. i think i still have it somewhere.
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 11:50 AM
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i remember collecting them. i sold my 80lb collection of that, Turbo, and some other import magazines to someone on eBay
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 12:19 PM
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well check out the new one dammit!
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by white_n_slow
well check out the new one dammit!
Reading their Sentra Spec V build right now, on Part 3. :deek:
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ShaolinLueb
they had a special honda issue and it covered motor swaps. it had every engine code at the time. and what cars they would fit in and stuff. what kind of transmission and assembly, etc.. it was an awesome issue. i think i still have it somewhere.
I have that issue somewhere too... for wishful thinking.
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Old Feb 4, 2011 | 03:23 AM
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I loved that mag. :happysad:

I used to have a subscription so I have a bunch of old issues piled up in the closet. I'll have to check out the blog you linked.
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