As you pulled this issue out of your mailbox or picked it up off the newsstand you may have noticed that it felt a little beefier. After months of begging the bean counters for some more pages for the magazine they have finally given in. For how long, I can't say, but hopefully the package will continue to grow (insert your own joke here).
When I first got the word that we could include more features and more tech articles I was very pleased, but then I realized we needed to come up with more features and more tech. I've got to be careful what I ask for because I just might get it. Luckily when it comes to finding feature cars there's no shortage of worthy hot rods and customs for us to point our cameras at.
The same thing goes for the interesting things going on in shops and garages in every state across the nation. Although there's no shortage of these activities, that doesn't mean we can always be there to cover them. The reality is there are only three of us, and after traveling to events, keeping an eye open for tech articles in our area, and meeting the editorial deadlines for the magazine, it doesn't leave as much time as we'd like to get out to shops in other states. Logistically it's much easier to swing by a local shop or garage several times over a month to shoot some photos as a car is being built. If we have to fly in somewhere, we don't have the luxury of staying for a couple of weeks while the fabrication work is being done.
I've already put a call out on a few Internet boards, but for those of you who spend more time out in your garage than on your computer, I'd like to extend an invitation to you to show us what you have going on. I'm not looking for something for nothing, so you might even make a little spending cash to help buy that next new part you'll need. This also applies to anyone out there who might have a shop and is trying to make a living working on these old cars. If you're working on something you think would make a good tech article and would like to get a little recognition for your shop, then keep that camera just as close by as you keep your toolbox.