WHO’S IN THIS ISSUE OF RPM? – MAY 2012

Courtesy of RPM Magazine

Brandford, ON – RESTO PRO MOD RACER – Jim Bersani… automotive restoration expert by day, racecar builder by night… and on the weekends LOOKOUT!  Talk about an attention getter, this incredible twin turbo big block 1957 Chevy Pro Mod is one bad machine!

SERIOUSLY! – Seriously Insane, Seriously Wild and Seriously Fast, are the best words to even start to describe Brian Hicks’ 3,000 horsepower twin trubo HEMI Outlaw 10.5 Challenger, affectionately (and appropriately) nicknamed “DECON”…you know, the “Rat” poison!

TWIN TURBO II – Mike Steffan’s very cool twin turbo Chevy II is at home on the streets, at the track, or even on display in the main hall at a National car show, which is where we first saw this amazing street machine.  This is one of those projects that was built to be fast, reliable and enjoyable wherever it may end up on the weekend. 

THE LEGEND LIVES ON – Drag Racing legend Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins crossed his final finish line on March 29, 2012 at age 81.

INSIDE OUT – PART IV – The Final step towards the new goal for Eric Gullett

OLYELLR – What do gear-head drag racers do when there is 3 feet of snow on the tracks in Atlantic Canada?  They tear a perfectly good 2010 Camaro to pieces and create a true modern day muscle car.
 

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EVOLUTION
 
Never being the ones to sit still and wait, copy the moves of others, or just go on and on in the same way without shaking things up once in a while, RPM Magazine has again reached a new level within the Performance, Race and Motorsports Magazine industry.

Notice anything this issue?  Check out the cover… WILD!  How about the nice thick paper inside the mag… VERY COOL!  And then there’s the content… well that is nothing short of AWESOME!

RPM is about quality!  Quality of content, design, and even the physical aspects of the magazine itself.  We don’t blow smoke!  We innovate, NOT imitate!  We set the trends, not follow them.  In other words, instead of listening to what their readers want, many magazines look for ways to follow the pack, (usually to save money or to “wow” you with the dazzle of their “Photoshop” capabilities and in turn sacrifice originality, readability, flow etc).  How about using near-phone-book-quality thin paper to save a buck, copying stories already published on the internet 10 times over, or bringing you a time sensitive story 3 to 5 months after it has taken place (can you say “ancient”).  Most magazines these days give you so many consecutive ads in their magazine that you think you are reading a catalogue rather than a car mag (I think the record we’ve seen is 18 pages before an actual story). 

Or publish mostly articles that revolve around the “big buck”, “big name” or “big opportunity” stories rather than stories about the people and machines who make this sport great… the grassroots!  What about publishing facing pages with only advertisements on them, instead of making sure that every ad is placed with editorial content of some kind?  I feel this is a disservice to advertisers.  Having words on pages with or adjacent to an advertisement helps readers see the ad in two ways, conscious and subconscious, which can only be good for the advertisers who help support the magazines. 

Our goal of 13 years ago, “to make a magazine for the readers” still holds true today.  One where you might just be reading about yourself or your neighbor as opposed to the same people over and over again.  Through the evolution of RPM you have seen many changes, and all made with you in mind.  We hope you enjoy this new look and feel, and our continuing commitment to you, our readers, to bring you the baddest street and race cars in all the land… and who knows, next month it might be yours!

Now read in 29 countries, RPM can be found on large newsstands in the USA and Canada, and select newsstands in the United Kingdom.  You can also read RPM at your local Performance or Speed Shop (if they don’t get it you need to tell them to!).  RPM is also distributed at many events each year, and you can even read complete issues online (but not until 30 days after their newsstand release), so the very best way to get your fix of original horsepower is to simply subscribe at: www.rpm-mag.com

Our continuing goal is simple, bring back the heyday of the printed car mag and give you the magazine that you want!  You know, the one that you can’t wait to see show up on your doorstep each and every month!  Just as I wrote here over 13 years ago, “save the fluff, the window dressing, politics, self serving articles and all that other useless junk for the other mags”.  At RPM, we’ll bring you the good stuff, the grassroots, the horsepower, the excitement that first attracted each and every one of us to fast cars in the first place!

Chris Biro, Editor In Chief, RPM MAGAZINE   www.rpm-mag.com