{"id":460806,"date":"2006-05-01T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=73768"},"modified":"2024-01-04T21:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:50:59","slug":"the-sports-car-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-sports-car-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sports Car Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The immutable rule of life is that every living thing is born, lives and dies. Publications are living things, and as such, they don\u2019t live forever. Remember Look magazine? During the \u201950s, there were four metropolitan daily newspapers in Los Angeles; now there is one. When the sports car craze burst onto the scene, a number of periodicals were born. Few still survive today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_700978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-700978\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/ArtEvans.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-700978 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/ArtEvans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/ArtEvans.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/ArtEvans-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/ArtEvans-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/ArtEvans-293x410.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-700978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Evans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was one that I had something to do with, so I feel justified in preserving its history. It was called the Sports Car Journal, initially the West Coast Sports Car Journal. Its birth was, perhaps, unique.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1954, I was pursuing a college education on the GI Bill at Los Angeles State College (now California State University at Los Angeles). At that time, it offered only the junior, senior and graduate years. It shared a campus with Los Angeles City College, which offered freshman and sophomore years. I majored in political science with a goal of going to law school after graduation. That year I traded in my Buick for a used XK120. The Jaguar changed my life forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had become acquainted with a classmate, Dick Sherwin, who was enrolled in the same classes with the same goal: becoming a lawyer. Dick had an MGTD. With a few like-minded others, we started the \u201cLos Angeles State College Sports Car Club.\u201d This was not unusual in those days. Many colleges and large companies had similar clubs. Our first activity was to stage a concours d\u2019elegance on the campus. I recruited Ernie McAfee, Ed Ness and Alan LeMay as judges. Marion (\u201cMG Mitten\u201d) and Charlie Weber entered their Bertone MG and we became friends. Marion and Charlie both lived into their nineties. I eulogized Charlie at his service a year or so ago. But that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Required to have an academic minor, Dick and I decided on journalism and enrolled in a class together. We discovered that we could earn two extra units if we performed a related activity outside of class. In a moment of some mental instability, we decided to create a monthly \u201csports car magazine.\u201d Here\u2019s how: Dick\u2019s father, Al, had a retail trophy business serving mainly the horsey set that indulged in showing, jumping, gymkhanas and the like. In addition, he was sometimes an announcer at equestrian events. In conjunction, Dick\u2019s mother, Ettienne, published a newsletter. So the expertise and equipment to produce a periodical was at hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actually, we had an ulterior motive. After the first few sports car races, someone, probably connected with the lumber business, suggested it would be a good idea to herd spectators into hopefully safe areas, keeping them behind snow-fencing. Overnight, press passes that allowed the wearer to roam at will became highly desirable. Even more so were photographer passes with which one could stand in the most dangerous spots. And the passes were free! With a sports car magazine, we qualified for passes, Dick with a press pass, me with a photographer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We divided the labor. Dick did the layout while I took pictures and sold ads. We both wrote articles. In those days, before computers, type was set by a machine called a linotype, which produced the copy in lead. But we couldn\u2019t afford this. Ettienne used a thing called a \u201cvarityper\u201d for her newsletter. To set type, you first set the width of your column. Next you type a line to fill the space. Finally, you re-type the column and\u2014lo and behold\u2014the machine justifies the line. When the story or article is finished and printed on paper, it was \u201cpasted up.\u201d The keyboard was laid out like a typewriter, but keying required very strong pecks. And everything had to be typed twice. I hope to never again be subjected to this torture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The semester we started the magazine was in the spring of 1955. The first edition was February of that year. Dick designed the logo for the cover and I took the photograph. The car was an Austin-Healey owned by one of the club members who had modified its nose to resemble a Ferrari\u2019s. The \u201ccover girl\u201d was the college\u2019s dean of women. A recent graduate, she was a very attractive woman in her early twenties. I\u2019m not sure how such a young person got the job. Her husband was soldiering in Korea, so as a veteran, I restrained myself from making a pass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-700979 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p1.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p1-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p1-66x100.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p1-293x446.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a>Dick was billed as the \u201cEditor, Publisher\u201d since his family had the office and equipment we needed. I was the \u201cAssistant Editor, Publisher.\u201d The first year, the format was 8.5&#215;5.5-inches. Starting with the March 1956 edition, the format was changed to the more normal size of 8.5&#215;11. I graduated that summer with a bachelor\u2019s degree and started USC Law School in September. The academic difference between an undergraduate college and law school was like jumping into a pool formed by a glacier. So I had to back way off in my participation with the magazine and was relegated to \u201cAssistant Editor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From then on, Dick more or less took over. Somehow or another he was able to eke out a living from it. I helped as much as time would allow, but I never wanted to make it a career. Beginning with the November 1956 edition, it became \u201cThe Official Magazine of the California Sports Car Club.\u201d Each member was mailed a copy and there was an insert with club news. The \u201cWest Coast\u201d was deleted from its name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regardless of the revised title, Southern California coverage was emphasized. The lead story in that November issue was a report I wrote about the October races at Pomona. It was also noted that child-actor Tim Considine had joined the Cal Club. The Austin-Healey 100-6 was previewed, the AC Ace was tested and an up-and-coming local driver\u2014Phil Hill\u2014was profiled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In October of 1955, another publication\u2014MotoRacing\u2014was started by a former newspaper fellow named Gus Vignole. Perhaps because he was at one time denied a press pass, Vignole hated the Cal Club, and particularly, the volunteers who ran it. Three-time president, Ken Miles, came in for more than his share of yellow journalism. Ken\u2014almost as good a writer as a driver\u2014also became a regular contributor to the Sports Car Journal. One of the famous feuds of the time consisted of the two periodicals sniping at one another.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a year of virtual nonstop study and having my eyesight deteriorate from 20\/20 to 20\/200, I decided the law was not for me. (Did you ever wonder why all lawyers wear glasses?) I got involved with another enthusiast, OCee Ritch, in a PR and advertising agency. We acquired the Los Angeles Region of the SCCA as a client and took over publishing its newsletter. The L.A. Region and the Cal Club were bitter rivals at the time. (In the early \u201960s, the L.A. Region was disbanded and the Cal Club became the California Sports Car Club Region of the SCCA. But that\u2019s yet another story.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a consequence, my participation in the Sports Car Journal had to end. But my dad\u2014who had always been interested in journalism (but never good at business)\u2014took my place, aided by my stepmother who became the \u201cCirculation Manager.\u201d Dick, of course, had studied political science and journalism in college with little emphasis on business. And my parents were somewhat lacking in that area too. Eventually, the magazine came to misfortune.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As it happened, until 1958, the Sports Car Journal had been circulated to subscribers and Cal Club members by mail. Due to some modest success, Dick and my dad decided to try local newsstand circulation. This involved making an arrangement with a newsstand distributor (read Mob). Some 30,000 copies had to be delivered to the distributor each month. Compared to previous amounts, the printing bill was huge. But newsstand sales would cover the cost, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wrong! As it turned out, that April edition was the last one. (MotoRacing stayed the course until January 1964.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dick\u2014sans my dad\u2014continued in the business and became very successful publishing, of all things, \u201cgirlie\u201d magazines. This could be considered the beginnings of \u201cporn,\u201d but Dick\u2019s magazines were modest by today\u2019s standards. Eventually, he sold out and took his ill-gotten gains and established Lytton Springs Winery in 1971. Its Zinfandel became famous and, after some 15 years of outstanding success and receiving an offer he couldn\u2019t refuse, he sold out to a Japanese company. In 1987, he bought a failing vineyard and turned it into another success story: Mendocino Hills Winery. In 2005, Dick sold out again and, this last time, retired. We have remained lifelong friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to hopefully amusing and enlightening you, I have an ulterior motive in recounting this history. As some of you may know, I\u2019m involved in assembling an archive of materials relating to sports cars in Southern California during the fifties. With some very generous donations, we have been able to acquire a complete collection of MotoRacing. My friend and associate, Bob Norton, has scanned every single page and created CDs. Now historians\u2014and any others interested\u2014can, for a nominal cost, acquire CDs to view on a computer monitor and print out, if desired. We would like to do the same with the Sports Car Journal, but we don\u2019t have every issue. This is an appeal for help. The only ones we don\u2019t have are October 1955, December 1955, June 1956 and September 1956. We don\u2019t need actual magazines to keep; all we need is to borrow them only long enough to scan. If you can help, please e-mail me at agevans@yahoo.com or call me at (310) 540-8068. Anyone who helps will get a free copy of one of my books and a CD when the project is completed. Thanks.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-700980 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"823\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p2.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p2-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p2-780x1024.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p2-76x100.jpg 76w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p2-770x1010.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/FF200605-p2-293x384.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Art Evans can be reached at agevans@yahoo.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immutable rule of life is that every living thing is born, lives and dies. 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