Popular Motoring & Practical Car Maintenance - magazine
Popular Motoring & Practical Car Maintenance - magazine
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viper blue

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166 posts

193 months

Sunday 10th March 2013
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For anyone from the 1970s; can you remember the magazine called "Popular Motoring & Practical Car Maintenance?
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I can remember reading it (monthly), those days long gone.
Question, did it migrate to some other name, or cease trading ?

Rob

scs1

339 posts

212 months

Friday 15th March 2013
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I joined Mercury House Publications in 1973 as a Staff Photographer. In the "stable" of magazines was Popular Motoring, Car Mechanics, Hot Car,
Practical Gardening etc.
In fact my first assignment was to photograph the newly launched Alfa Sud for popular Motoring to accompany a road test feature.
I can t exactly remembered what happened to Popular Motoring but in the late 70's the company was sold and the titles were split up between two different companies. I went with AGB Publications who bought Hot Car ,Performance Car and Street Machine.
I think it was probably at this time that Popular Motoring folded or was incorporated into another title