https://www.hotrod.com/articles/chevy-iroc-camaro-history-tuned-port-tpi-350/
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https://www.hotrod.com/articles/chevy-iroc-camaro-history-tuned-port-tpi-350/
http://st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2020/09/Cars-Illustrated-october-1987-IROC-Camaro-review-1.pdf
Just before I became the Editor of Car and Driver, previous Editor Leon Mandel published a photograph that set a precedent. It became known as "The Opel in the Junkyard" photo, and no car magazine had ever dared do anything like it. It was taken about 18 years before this Camaro picture was, and it showed an Opel, obviously, parked in a junkyard, to make plain our opinion of the car.
ReplyDeleteWow, I didn't know you had been the editor of CnD! I'm quite pleased to know that I'm doing something that you enjoy enough to keep your patronage! You see, I'm just a goofball with some haywired OCD that keeps me enjoying looking around for stuff to share on my blog... but I gotta admit, getting a press pass to SEMA sure don't hurt either!
DeleteI was very surprised to find that Thom Taylor when editor of Hot Rod had found and liked my blog, but I'm far more shocked that an editor of Car n Driver does, and continues to! Thom only once mentioned it and asked me to come in and interview for a temp job, I haven't had any indication he read along and enjoyed the blog any more than a first impression.
Jesse, I visit the site two or three times a day. But that's probably because I have too much time on my hands.
ReplyDeleteoh my... you killed my buzz right there.... instead of saying, I stop by often because the stuff you post is good. Right in the gut.
DeleteBoy, you are sensitive. Why do you think I visit the site that often? I'm actually a busy freelance writer, and in fact I really don't have that much free time on my hands. It was meant as a self-deprecating joke. Lighten up.
ReplyDeleteAnd what I said was meant as a self-deprecating joke too. Obviously, short one liners written in humor with no ability to carry tone or set in context do not get carried across with the intended humor.
DeleteHOW can you see what you wrote had any sense of humor, but miss my obvious overacting pratfall, and mistake it for deadpan seriousness?
I see that you've never mentioned, in comments focused on other things, that 1) you're a free lance writer 2) former editor of Car and Driver 3) have or do not have too much time on your hands
Knowing things like those, is necessary information that is required for sarcasm based self deprecating jokes.
I'm not that sensitive, I'm frequently told by a LOT of people that they stop by my blog a couple times a day.
There is no context for you to write, with nothing else said pointing to it, that " I visit the site two or three times a day"
So.... I don't know why you said that, I don't know if it was in reply to something else, or a response to a previous comment, and frankly, I'm surprised you either thought I could understand it, knew it was self deprecating, or could find it made sense only as a joke.
I'm not a freelance writer, not an editor, have no degrees in English, psychology, or what ever it takes to be witty, eloquent, telepathic, and all the other specialties of behavioral sciences that are necessary to read into what you wrote and divine the tone and humor it was written with.
One more thing, read the blog title,
it still says
Just a car guy, right?
Not sensitive flower mindreading genius?
Then maybe I'm not cut out to match wits or trade jokes.
You were complimented, had a wonky response, then jabbed at me to stop being sensitive and lighten up.
That sums it up to me, how do you read that, and do you see it making any sense at all?
I'm done armchair experting this situation.
And now it's your turn to judge if this went haywire, or if something caused a short somewhere
frankly, I don't have any idea who I'm talking to or what your personality is like, and I don't know if you've got me anywhere close to being understood. Maybe complimenting you, or being pleased that you stop by was just the wrong thing to tell you at all. It certainly ended up backfiring right in my stupid face
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