The immutable rule of life is that every living thing is born, lives and dies. Publications are living things, and as such, they don’t live forever. Remember Look magazine? During the ’50s, there were four metropolitan daily newspapers in Los Angeles; now there is one. When the sports car craze burst onto the scene, a number of periodicals were born. Few still survive today.
There was one that I had something to do with, so I feel justified in preserving its history. It was called the Sports Car Journal, initially the West Coast Sports Car Journal. Its birth was, perhaps, unique.
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