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ISSN 2162-8033 Hagerty Magazine | 800-922-4050 1 Spring in Our Step


The Spring issue is usually chock full of some of the more creative ideas we’ve come up with during the “lost months.” In “A Mile in His Shoes,” we wanted to see what would happen when we took David Burroughs, one of the smartest Corvette guys we know, and put him in “the enemy”—a Porsche 911 Carrera RS. We did the same to Reid Vann, one very analytical, diehard Porsche guy, by dropping him into an LT-1 Corvette. With Ezra Dyer as a witness, the result was sort of like “Top Gear” meets “Wife Swap.”


No matter what kind of car guy or gal you consider yourself, one thing that most of us agree on is Steve McQueen. Te guy was just flat-out cool, whether doing his own motorcycle stunts in “Te Great Escape,” thrashing a Mustang around San Francisco in “Bullitt” or piloting a Porsche 917 at Le Mans. To that end, McQueen aficionado Matt Stone explores the “McQueen Mystique” and why so many of us still care so much about his work and his legend more than 30 years after his death. Spring is also when we review the state of the collector car hobby. In this issue, experts from the U.S. and Europe weigh in on what happened in 2011 and what we’re likely to see in 2012 and beyond. Without giving away too much, things look pretty good.


Finally, in “Small Beginnings,” we examine the roots so many of us share when it comes to our gearheadedness—the Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Corgis, Dinkys and more we played with as kids. Marshall Buck looks at four guys whose childhood love for miniatures saw them acquire the full-scale versions in adulthood. And it’s a good thing winter is breaking; I’m so eager for spring that I couldn’t resist pulling some of my old miniatures off the shelf.


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