1193 The Internet is a wonderful place to communicate, get current news, and find information about pretty much whatever you're looking for. However, for pleasure-reading, I'm old-school, and much prefer a real, hard-copy book, magazine, or newspaper to reading online.

My favorite magazines are The Atlantic Monthly and Road & Track, the latter which I have been reading since the early 1960s, or even considerably before that if you count the boxes of old copies from the '50s that I cadged from my uncle and pored over as a kid.

I read a lot of other magazines, but those two are the ones I subscribe to.

Road & Track has succeeded in staying cutting-edge contemporary (you can check out their Website at http://www.roadandtrack.com/ , and longtime Engineering Editor Dennis Siminaitis takes a special interest in technology topics ) while remaining true to the basic editorial formula established by the magazine's founders John and Elaine Bond back in the late 1940s. The Bonds' vision for R&T was to make it "The New Yorker" for automotive enthusiasts - a classy read for literary-oriented car aficionados. They succeeded in doing so without being stuffy, and the tradition has been carried on. A R&T reader stepping out of the 1960s would feel right at home opening a 2007 issue of the magazine.

If you're interested in automobiles Road & Track is a gem in its own right, even if you've never read a copy before, but after 40-odd years of readership, it's a trip to pick up the same vibe in the latest issue as I used to as a teenager when there were no Internet or personal computers, and magazines like R&T were my window on a bigger world.

I also credit some of the great writers of the golden age of automotive journalism, including R&T's John Bond and Henry N. Manney Jr., as being lasting formative influences on my own writing style, and Peter Egan, who has been on board since the '70s, is a particular treat.

Evidently, there are some Apple fans these days at R&T. The illustrations in Editor-In-Chief Thos. L. Bryant's lead editorial in the October, 2007 issue shows a couple of screenshots taken from Safari in a Mac, and announces a couple of online contests, one of which, "the Road & Track SPEED Sweepstakes, provides an opportunity to win an iPhone. For more information on that, click the link on the roadandtrack.com Home Page, or visit here:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=7&article_id=5825

Road & Track is also running another, "Dream of a Lifetime Sweepstakes" with a Grand Prize of either $25,000 cash or a 2007 Ford Explorer 4.0 SOHC V6, and over 1,000 smaller prizes. To enter, go here:
https://www.neodata.com/hfmus/road/sweeps/
or
http://www.roadandtrack.com/sweepstakes



Charles W. Moore

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