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Major Woody
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| My favorite was VW Trends. The thing I liked best about it was the black and white pictures. Bright colors scare me. I also appreciated the phonetic spelling because that made the magazine approachable to more readers. |
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nederbug
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kevtherev
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Rowroy
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Mail running a little slow? 
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zuhaelter_82
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Eurotuner and Performance VW
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Rick73Super
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| I liked the columnists in VW Trends, DB&HVW is just okay. VolksWorld rocks, great features on American cars too. Camper & Commercial is great if you are into buses. Looking forward to pick up a copy of Airmighty. |
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Thanatos
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It depends on what kind of VW I'm working on/building/dreaming about. For restored stockers and customs, off-road vehicles and coverage of racing and toy VWs, it's Dune Buggies & Hot VWs. For VW-based kit cars, it would be any of the kit-car magazines or DB&HVWs, which I have seen many kit cars in, mostly Pumas and Porsche replicas. For water-cooled cars and Vanagons, Volksworld would be my choice. VW Trends was a good all-purpose Volkswagen magazine, but it was foolish killing that off in favor of a tuner-car magazine (Eurotuner) IMHO.
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notchback
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| I liked the columnists in VW Trends |
Dan Leadbetter and his dog Tripod rocked.
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vw7266
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| Ultra VW is the best IMHO |
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gbsmallie
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Location: Dry side of Oregon
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| My favorite was VW Trends. The thing I liked best about it was the black and white pictures. Bright colors scare me. I also appreciated the phonetic spelling because that made the magazine approachable to more readers. |
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shano63 
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HotVWs is my mag of choice. I still have the first issue I bought back in '83.
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61RagtopJon
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19super73
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Back when I was getting into ACVW's, (the mid to late '80's) I had a subscription to VW Trends for a number of years. It was the only VW mag I could find on the news stands near me and I did like it at the time. This was before everything they published was modified or chopped up cars buses and trucks. As this was not my thing, I stopped subscribing and buying. I'm surprised my relatively conservative parents would buy the subscription for me as I was in my early teens and they had many bikini-clad lovelies in the mag.
One section I used to read religiously was the editor's Pile of the Month. It was great. Dan Leadbetter rocked.
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Cusser
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I liked Hot VWs before they gave in to pressure and stopped using gal models, oftentimes in swim attire. Their readership is like 99% male, and yet they gave in to pressure and stopped the practice in the 1990s. I couldn't believe that a few complaints made them do this change, what a bunch of wusses !!!
Popular Mechanics (maybe 98% male readers) had complaints that the girls in the boating articles were wearing swim attire, and almost axed those. Unbelievable.
Now Cosmo, with maybe 98% female readership and 2% gay, can show or print articles about anything !!! They have this in my gym.
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Rick73Super
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| I'm just waiting to get Airmighty when subscription becomes available on line. |
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53 0val
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Where can you buy VolksWorld in SoCal? I tried Barnes and Noble. 
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Empicollector
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Rick73Super
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It's well worth the price, lot of feature on American built VWs and good coverage of some US events too, even some US advertisements. |
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Dean1
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| Where can you buy VolksWorld in SoCal? I tried Barnes and Noble. |
Have you tired that newsstands in South Coast Plaza? |
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53 0val
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| Where can you buy VolksWorld in SoCal? I tried Barnes and Noble. |
Have you tired that newsstands in South Coast Plaza? |
Thanks....................I forgot all about that place. 
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