Sport Z magazine

[Doug]

Hi, just wondering if anybody knows about Sport Z magazine and if its any good, gona cost me a packet here in land downunder oh well...

any comments appreciated

[byunique]

I enjoy it everytime I get it. I just wish it was more frequent.

[EScanlon]

The magazine is excellent! Being a 240 owner I'd rather they covered the 240 more than the 300's but I'm just being selfish.

They have had some excellent articles that have saved me chunks of cash. I've personally addressed the steering wheel restore and it worked great, the instructions were extremely helpful. I'm currently doing the fuel vent lines replacement and that's also saving me a chunk.

The ads are specific to our cars! Yes there are a few generic type guys, but the BULK are specific! That makes it better all the way around.

I'd get it even if it were twice the price.

[Doug]

sounds good, I'll try to locate near or subscribe and pay freight. thanks for input.

[EScanlon]

You can also subscribe through the internet, go to

http://www.zportzmagazine.com

I think you can also get & request international mailing information from them.

Good Luck, hope to see your car pictures in there.

[Doug]

Yeah ta, I'm going to try to find it at a shop near me so I don't have to fork out for overseas mailing costs. And on pictures, is there posters, sorta like Z centrefolds?

[EScanlon]

Don't think their circulation is yet up to being available on the newsstands, but I'm hoping I'm wrong. At least in the US. Don't know what they would be doing in other countries.

That might be a thought, if you know of a vendor who would buy it and make it available to other interested people.

Check with them at their website.

[Mike]

One thing I'd like to see in Sport Z magazine is bikini-clad women! Something like the lowrider and custom car magazines. Or, hell... even a few topless women every now and then. Have you guys seen any of the overseas magazines? There's a Sportbike magazine that can get pretty racy.

I'm not saying take it to a level like EZ Rider. Just a few classy looking women in bikini's would be nice.

[Doug]

yeah well I sorta meant posters of Zeds but hey bikinis are cool too! And if the two were combined it could begin a whole new era of publishing! Or not....

So if anyone can answer my first question....

[Mike]

Bikini's aside...

I think I have seen at least a double-wide spread of a Z. In fact, the latest issue has a very clean 1974 260z in a double spread.

Now, these aren't the kind of posters you can remove and hang on the wall w/out damaging the magazine itself.

I wonder if it would be cost-effective for Robert to add an easy-to-pull-out poster in every issue. I do know that they are looking for good pictures of Z's for the magazine.

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[EScanlon]

I responded to this yesterday but computer bombed just after I posted, so I thought it had gone and apparently not.

Each of the magazine's issues has had a "centerfold" picture of a Z car, with the car's specs on the left. Don't know if the specs are those cars ACTUAL specs or if they are the specs of what the car would have had for the configuration of the vehicle sold.

At the bottom you have tidbits as to other things that happened in the same year as when that car was brand new.

Generally a pleasant format, although I would agree that a larger photo would be nice, I'm not displeased with the current size.

Ladies in bikinis on the cars? Hmmm, I think I would rather see a pictorial on that car, and maybe in some of the other photos have ladies in different styles of dress. Although men make up the vast majority of the subscription base of the magazine, I do know that there are some avid lady Z enthusiasts, so insert men as props also.

I would personally prefer they left the centerfold as is. Just the car, it's specs, some facts and a nice shot of the car.

If they added more pictures to it's pictorial, then maybe go ahead and add photos of ladies in various outfits:

1) A gorgeous leggy woman in a seductive evening dress in dark hose and stiletto heels, stepping out of the car, but the photo still gives a good look of the interior of the car.

2) A young lady in an Izod shirt wearing a denim mini-skirt with tennis shoes is waving at someone while she's pulling something out of the hatch, and the photograph gives plenty of space and visibility of the rear end (of the car, although the girl's would be cute too).

The concept being, this is how the car is IN USE, not the typical posed cheesecake shot of some busty blonde with a set of wrenches in her hand a dab of grease on her nose in a butt floss bikini leading you to believe she just got out from underneath the car where she just replaced the oil pan.

Not saying the cheesecake shot is bad etc, just that if that's what I wanted, then I can get the Mac, Snap-On, Proto, Bud, Miller etc etc calendar and get a ton of cheesecake.

I personally like the Z car, it's lines and it's many configurations in the hands of it's owners. THAT'S what I think should be on the centerfold.

But hey, just my 2¢ worth.

[Mike]

Originally posted by EScanlon

Ladies in bikinis on the cars? Hmmm, I think I would rather see a pictorial on that car, and maybe in some of the other photos have ladies in different styles of dress. Although men make up the vast majority of the subscription base of the magazine, I do know that there are some avid lady Z enthusiasts, so insert men as props also.

Actually, I'd have to disagree. Most of the ladies I know (maybe that's the problem here) like to read Playboy RATHER than Playgirl. For some reason, ladies like to see other ladies. It's not a sexual thing, but, more like a comparison thing.

I would personally prefer they left the centerfold as is. Just the car, it's specs, some facts and a nice shot of the car.

I agree about the centerfold. However, if they really want to sell the heck out of the magazine, put some bikinis in there.

If they added more pictures to it's pictorial, then maybe go ahead and add photos of ladies in various outfits:

1) A gorgeous leggy woman in a seductive evening dress in dark hose and stiletto heels, stepping out of the car, but the photo still gives a good look of the interior of the car.

2) A young lady in an Izod shirt wearing a denim mini-skirt with tennis shoes is waving at someone while she's pulling something out of the hatch, and the photograph gives plenty of space and visibility of the rear end (of the car, although the girl's would be cute too).

I see you have thought about this already...

The concept being, this is how the car is IN USE, not the typical posed cheesecake shot of some busty blonde with a set of wrenches in her hand a dab of grease on her nose in a butt floss bikini leading you to believe she just got out from underneath the car where she just replaced the oil pan.

Hey now, I always thought girls looked EXACTLY like that when they worked on cars... DAmn.. am I wrong?

Not saying the cheesecake shot is bad etc, just that if that's what I wanted, then I can get the Mac, Snap-On, Proto, Bud, Miller etc etc calendar and get a ton of cheesecake.

Ah, ok...

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