Magazines...Have you ever wondered?

[Girls can too]

I have spent years in the hobby and more time than I want to remember on my 'Stang. The end goal was a spread in a print magazine...The same as many modifiers dream.

I've also always wanted to know how true to life a feature was...and how well we really know the cars we see splashed upon our favorite pages...Well, here's an inside as to how close mine was.

Example of the little things we miss when we don't know someone personally displayed in a feature....

I spent a lot of time writing MM&FF 5 typed pages of well written info - yet I was misquoted many times (I don't even know where the first quote came from! I must've read it three times like, "What?!!"). They quoted "Me" somewhere about my Welds...I didn't say that...Nor do I EVER talk like that! They said my 12.5 was run with this combo...NO! The old motor! They make it sound like I've never raced in my life. That really bugs me since I have been since I was 14.

They said I have headlight covers (even gave a brand name) and quoted my mileage wrong (it's far more). They said it was shot in Ennis, yet it was done in Houston. There were many things that were so mixed and matched, you'd think I never sent them a word. Oh and the funniest part of it all....They call poor "Bob" (as I always refer to "him") as a "her"...in what are stated as MY WORDS!

The worst...

My car and the web site ventures I have taken do NOT go hand in hand. My efforts on my car have been going on far longer than I've owned a keyboard. However, if it IS going to be mentioned then it should be mentioned correctly. This is my second feature which has blatently directed visitors to my personal site...NOT to MW. It's almost a conspiracy. WTH?

I guess I assumed that if they did mention our section and the goals of bringing more ladies to the hobby...They'd be directing them to the right place? I am adding yet another easy access button on my home page to make sure they get here! Because I moved here for a reason...I want others to call it their home too!

**Dan, I send my deepest apologies to you. I am in awe. I thank you personally for the chance you gave me and the offer of a lifetime. I'm sorry that my efforts to show you my appreciation publicly has failed again. I now know why we are on the net and not in a print shop!!

In such a small write up...I can't believe how many mistakes there were. I hope that I never do that to ANY of my Mares or Studs!

Believe me, I tell you these things because I too was interested to see how many features I've read and been duped with. I pay $5 an issue and hope to be reading factual information...Or as close to it as possible. I now wonder about the people who have to fill out that paper work at the track or show. How close is THEIR feature to true life?

But in the end....IT MADE IT! Call me selfish, but they could've put a picture of the wrong chick in there and I'd still be like, "Look! It's Bob behind her big boobs!" haha! This feature wasn't for me anyways, it was for the car and what it stands for...Endurance. Time always pays off! The pics and the commentary are awesome and I am extremely overjoyed (to say the least) to see his smiling face in the middle of a print mag. I can sleep now.

Thanks to you all for your support and to friends for being there to share this with me!