Winding Road Online Magazine

by Lloyd Frazier

Taken directly from a Wikpedia.org entry:

David E. Davis, Jr. is an automobile journalist and magazine publisher. His career in the automotive industry spanned from race car driver, factory worker and car salesman to ad salesman with Road & Track and copywriter for Corvette advertisements before becoming a writer for Car and Driver magazine in 1962. He wrote for that publication until 1967 and later became its editor and publisher from 1976 to 1985 before leaving to found Automobile magazine. During this time, his "Driver's Seat" columns for Car and Driver, and "American Driver" columns for Automobile, became wildly popular and influential in the industry. Time magazine called Davis the "dean of automotive journalists." He is also the editorial director of Motor Trend magazine. He has been semi-retired from day-to-day operations on Automobile since 2000, and continues to serve as editorial director of Motor Trend. In 1985, during a 60 Minutes special report on the Lamborghini Countach, he said "I believe that anyone who is worth their salt should drive a V12 once before they die." A statement that mirrored his earnest appreciation, at times even for the ridiculous, for great automobiles.

Mr. Davis is now Editor-in-Chief of Winding Road an e-zine for high-performance vehicles. It is published by Absolute Multimedia, Inc. of Austin, Texas, publishers of 'The Absolute Sound' and 'The Perfect Vision.'

That being the segue into what this blog entry is about...the Winding Road Magazine. An online subscription to Winding Road Magazine
is available for free. You just need to sign up with an email address. Go to www.windingroad.com to get your free, three year subscription. I just read some fantastic articles in it this morning. You can download it into pdf form or read it online. I read it online and it was very enjoyable. They use a nice online reader format that I have not seen used on any other site. There is embedded multi-media in it as well. I first learned of David E. Davis while viewing an episode of Autoline Detroit with John McElroy. He seems to be a very interesting character since I share his passion for automobiles. I would like to think that I would have been in a similar position as him had I chosen to take the same career path. Actually, I wish I had taken a different career path. I'm closing on the mid-century mark. Maybe it isn't too late to do something I really love in the fall/winter seasons of life. Go check out the site. I highly recommend it.

Lloyd signing out...