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    Anyone here have dirt wheels/atv magazines

    I am curious to find out if anyone on here has dirt wheels or other atv/3 wheeler magazines? I just bought about 40 of them from a seller on here. They have useful information in them and its cool to see the old advertisements of products that used to be around. I also scrapbook the old ads out of them and put them into a binder. I currently have around 50 different ads from Chaparral, some several pages dating from 1984 to around 2005. I also keep ones from Rocky Mountain, scorcher, recreation unlimited/tires, wind mountain and don nelson cycles. I think Chaparral is still around today. Strangely I went to the bookstore last week and found a 2021 dirt wheels and its not at all like the issues I have. Much thinner, and none of the companies ads I have are in there. Times have changed I guess

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlton View Post
    I am curious to find out if anyone on here has dirt wheels or other atv/3 wheeler magazines? I just bought about 40 of them from a seller on here. They have useful information in them and its cool to see the old advertisements of products that used to be around. I also scrapbook the old ads out of them and put them into a binder. I currently have around 50 different ads from Chaparral, some several pages dating from 1984 to around 2005. I also keep ones from Rocky Mountain, scorcher, recreation unlimited/tires, wind mountain and don nelson cycles. I think Chaparral is still around today. Strangely I went to the bookstore last week and found a 2021 dirt wheels and its not at all like the issues I have. Much thinner, and none of the companies ads I have are in there. Times have changed I guess
    I'm pretty sure most/all of us 3-wheeler peeps that grew up in the eighties have a few "select" dirtwheel/ 3-wheeler mags. But will not cut them up. Cool u picked up a few but your destroying them if cutting anything out.

    shep

    just my opinion----
    Last edited by Shep1970; 02-20-2021 at 11:11 AM.

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    Before I even entered this thread I was about to say exactly what Shep just did

    We all had the magazines as kids, you waited for it to arrive each month and read it over and over and over.

    But then you made the mistake of throwing it away, or your Mom did.

    Now why buy them, flip thru them, smile, and then stick them on a shelf until we're bored, still fun to remember what it was like to live in such a great time period.

    I truly think anyhow who was a tennager in the 80's/90's had a n awesome time period to grow up in, things were so much better then!

    Now we buy them for 30$ or ??, but they're around and still hold value.

    If you bought 40 you must have got a killer deal!! We may have to ask you for a couple scans

    They won't ever be Spiderman edition 1, I think all the stuff we've cherished from the 60's to the 90's will disappear and drop in value, as these new generations grow up. No one will want any of it and all fossil fuels will be phased out...

    Bring on Socialism and the poor me entitled society, I often think about what these kids have to deal with, like Sheps kids.

    They're such good kids and they've got great parents but these teachers are not helping much and the kids are getting brainwashed.

    Hopefully Vocational schools have better teachers, IDK??
    All our government does is distract us while they steal from us, misspend our tax $ and ruin our country

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    I used to have a ton of three wheeler mags, but made the 'mistake' of storing in parent's attic when I headed to college. Usually nothing ever gets thrown out if it ends up in the attic.....

    I still have hundreds of old Hemming's Motor News, Mustang monthly, Super Ford, Hotrod, Peterson's Four Wheeler, but unfortunately all the trike mags got chucked.
    When I was 12, I mowed 4 lawns in the neighborhood to save up. I bought a 110 off one of my Dad's friends. The guy delivered it, unloads it, then starts it up and proceeded to wheelie straight into our chicken coop. My mom was absolutely rip my father allowed me to get something as dangerous as this!

    Then the year after I had a friend over riding. He put his foot down (dirt biker), ran it over and ended up with a broken ankle. Sold off the 110 to buy an 84 200x. When I was close to 16 I sold the 200x to help pay for a Mach 1. She was so happy 'I got over them 3 wheelers'.

    The worst was when the family watched the 60 Minutes BS story leading to the ban, she was completely convinced ATC's were evil and was probably just another reason in her mind to discard the magazines. Needless to say I am bummed out to this day she gunned them.....I mean we have Consumer Reports dating back to 1967 still in the damn attic today!

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