Showing posts with label magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magazine. Show all posts
Friday, January 11, 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I had a job interview and a tour at Source Interlink Media (parent company of Hot Rod Magazine and Motor Trend)
Ummm, I was asked to interview for a job basically doing website content and editing Hey, it's pretty cool that they think I can do a great job though I've had no college or university education in communication, websites, search engine optimization or whatever else major magazine and website corporations want in editors.
But I don't live in LA, and that's a job requirement, being able to get into the office and hold down a desk job.
You might think they are hiring the competition, and that might be true. I'd rather think that they've looked at my site, liked its content quality and content, and that my stats are about 1/3rd what they do. For my hobby, in my spare time, vs their 40 hour a week pro employees and SEO. Heck, can you blame me for having a look at what I could get paid to do? Hell no. But I'm in San Diego, 2 hours away from their office. So I had to pass.
Past the reception area:
Past one of the cube farms of Motor Trend and into the garage area that Garage Mahal tv show did a make over on:
if you are a reader of Hot Rod you might recognize the Demon on the top rack, or Dave Freiburgers 70 Superbee. Oh, by the way, you can see the progress hasn't gotten far on the Demon
I got to thank Thom Taylor in person for recommending this blog in Hot Rod Magazine! http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/12/best-compliment-of-month-and-honorable.html was my online thank you
Into the photo studio, where beautiful women models (as opposed to car models) are getting personal hair stylists and make up artists to enhance their natural good looks
getting catering by Noah's, with Red Vines, Naked juices, and strawberries. Veggie platter, Orbit gum, and grapes. Now that is a cool way to take care of models!
bitchin table! Even has headers!
Above: the list of guests at the magazine HQ I think. Pretty cool to get your friends and business acquaintances to autograph a board like this, even put on a sketch or pinstripe that is very cool
and the only interesting cars in the parking lot
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Buh buh buh daaaah! (or whatever the music is for Jaws... ) I got into the ARCHIVES! Hot rod archives!
and the guy with the coolest job in the hot rod world, gets to work on all those archives!
Anyway, I asked to be put in his will as the next guy with his job, and he said he'd already been paid off to put someone else in his will for it. Damn. The beat me to it.
I guy can dream right?
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
1968 GTX 440 factory detail photos in this months Muscle Car Review
From Frank Badalson, http://www.rogergibsonautorestoration.com/aboutus.htm partner of Roger Gibson, (Mopar restoration expert) is a photo gallery of all the minutiae of the unique aspects in the Muscle Car Review magazine Dec 2012 issue
Thursday, December 20, 2012
the magazine rack in the Petersen Museum has a damn good selection
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Best compliment of the month, and honorable mention from Thom Taylor in Hot Rod Magazine
OK, he did mistake this blogspot.com for a .com but that can be taken as a compliment too... I mean, anyone thinking that my content quality and quantity are easily mistaken for a website (.com) and overlook that this is a "made in the garage" blog, in my spare time, are welcome to just enjoy it and possibly think it's a professionally made, full time, team effort.
That would be fine. It's just me after work, and on weekends.
I'm so stoked!
It's far out that such a recognized Hot Rod authority (Hot Rod and Grand National Roadster Show Halls of Fame) and person of impeccable taste likes my site enough to give it an honorable mention in the icon of hot rodding publications. And if anyone looks up Justacarguy.com on Google they'll find this blogspot.com and enjoy
If you haven't run across Thom Taylor's name and reputation in the past, here is a quick bio after this link http://dev.motorburg.com/?page_id=128
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and taught there later in life. He has designed at least 4 of the America's Most Beautiful Roadster winners, and at least one Ridler award winner
If you are new to looking at my site, I hope you enjoy browsing, and if there is something particular you are looking for, then go through the 1000 to 1100 tags running alphabetically down the right hand side of this site to the word for what you are interested in, click on it, and hang on for the ride.
I recommend that if you just have a couple minutes, you've come to the right place. Look at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/03/best-of-archives.html
and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-posts-my-favorite-stories-from.html for the posts that I think are the most interesting of all the 10300 I've made.
Or for a lot of humor, about 809 posts of funny stuff http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/humor
Signing off with, thank you Thom!
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Hurry to your magazine rack or drugstore, Street Rod Premium just hit the stands, and the next issue doens't happen til next June
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Glen made a scrapbook in 1939, just before graduating high school and enlisting in the Army or Air Force, he never saw action overseas, but fixed a hell of a lot of airplanes... coincidentally his passion as you'll see from some of his scrap book.
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Above, the Zeppelin Hindenburg flying over New York on her maiden voyage
Above, the Airacuda... cool name! Never heard of it before, looks effin cool
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