Letters To The Editor - Mailbag - February 2010

8-Lug Subs?
Is this something I can subscribe to? If so, how do I do it? The Subscribe Now link on your website seems to be for Diesel Power only. Thanks.
Mindy Brown

No, we don't have subscriptions yet. Sorry about that. I'm not sure why we have a Subscribe Now link on our website. But, yes, if you click it, it will take you to our sister publication Diesel Power.

I'm Just Sayin'
After reading your article about the 2009 TS Performance Outlaw Drag Race and Sled Pull, I thought the article was great, until I read the last paragraph. I know from experience how hard it is to put on an event and I even know what it feels like for it to not go as planned. However, after driving 12 hours to Kentucky and finding out at 8 a.m. the races were canceled, that was awful-especially after discovering it was due to individuals who had no respect for the thousands of others that had traveled from even further destinations. But then to have the sled pulls start hours and hours after they were supposed to and not end until the next morning-that was exhausting. I just don't see how the author could close out this article using the word "fun" or say that people are anticipating next year's event. I don't blame the organizers, but I'm just sayin'...
8-lugfan

Yes, 8-lugfan, it was a bummer that some knuckleheads screwed up the event. But the fact is, a lot of people still had a great time. Many, many people are looking forward to the 2010 event that takes place May 7-8 (that's a Friday and a Saturday), and new rules are in place to prevent anything unsavory from happening again. We'll be there, and we hope you will be, too.

Sign Me Up
I would like to subscribe to 8-Lug for my son. Can it be done?
Jack

No.

We gave you everything we had, Jeremy.

Calling It Like I See It
I keep reading the comments and the like on the Cover Quest stories. I have to agree that a black, or even plain-Jane white truck would make a good cover truck. While it's true there are those trucks out there that are as much a trailer queen as an original Shelby Cobra or any of the hot rod magazine cover cars, I don't think that you are writing for the owners of the show trucks.

From what I have seen so far, you have current and recent production work trucks in the magazine. It's not trucks that bounce up and down with 16 switches-whatever the hell that is-and it's not trail or monster trucks that would make Bob Chandler (of Bigfoot fame) jealous. You seem to direct most of this to the normal guy who's in his truck going out to the farm or construction site and wants a bit more but isn't scared to scratch the paint by tossing a couple of concrete blocks or a pile of lumber in the back end and actually using the truck for its actual purpose: to haul stuff. I see so many of the useless, jacked-up, huge-tired trucks where the tailgate is higher than the top of a refrigerator, and the tail draggers that are so low you can use the gooseneck ball in the bed to hook a bumper-pull trailer to. Leave that crap to the other guys.

There are damn few of us that can afford that silliness and those that can aren't reading your magazine anyway, I don't figure. They are too busy shining their chrome and working three jobs to pay down their credit cards from the building of their truck. Looking forward to the next issue.
Keith Foor

Thanks Keith.