QUOTE (VST @ Dec 21 2005, 09:24 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>any chance we could lose the txt spk?
Plenty of lads on here with feature worthy old school cars, whether they'd want them featured in slick magazine is another thing entirely........
TXT speak, well it was late an I could'nt be bothered to be grammatically correct, and as for not wanting to featured in Slick, thats up to them, I got a loada similar response off alot of the american and custom boys, they just associate it with Flush bus an Co.
Thing is, I'm not into rice, and I'm probably a bigger bitch than most when it comes to the cars I like and dont. My section is totally different to anything in the mag, no-one else is covering oldskool stuff and as for euro's, most of the Dub stuff around is ricey MK3 'n 4 more doors which I wouldnt even entertain, Vag should be super clean oem+ rollin some sweet ikle wide rims or just pure retro as far as I'm concerned!
The custom guys I've featured were all cagey but came away happy with there features in the end, how many Irish cars ever make it in to UK mags? How many are good enuf???? 1%
Folk can be snobby all they like, but at the end of the day you should see it as a way of promoting your scene in Ireland. The ammout of knacker box owners we piss off coz we wont feature their pride an joy is unreal, a few have even kicked off at us at shows!!!
The mag covers fashion, music and extreme sport too. I ride MotoX, BMX, MTB and minibikes, I drive old VDubs, and slammed ratty bays and bugs, I watch skating etc and I'm pissed off with the lack of respect an pure ignorance towards these minorities, from our GAA loving, polyester wearing, drink fueled nation. I had a car audio shop that was pestered every day from the rice comics for ads, so I put it to em to let me write about wot I'm into and SLICK took me up on it! I'm trying to educate em and the mag is the way I chose to do it!
Slicks not my baby, theres stuff in there I dont like too, but thats the market, we're doing something different, - its only 8 months old.
I'm giving you a soapbox, use it!
Now I want a mint MK1, nice motor, slammed on 13x 8-10j rims for a feature at some stage this year, anyone interested?