I just got off the phone, in response to this email I received:

Hi Chad!

Hope things are going well for you. I'm in Georgia/Florida this week and I'm trying to work my way back to Wisconsin at some point. Rick Jensen and I have been discussing your car for a while now and he was wondering if you'd be interested in letting me shoot it for GMHTP this week, if it was available. Give me a call on my cell phone when you get this (leave a message if it doesn't go through). Thanks!

Jim McIlvaine
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I am FIRED UP!!

Cool. That sounds sweet (too bad I don't read that mag these days). Mag coverage is not a bad thing.

i've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why they havent been intrested in my car. nice going.

Congrats Chad!!

BTW...Glenn that is a good point. Your car looks great, has HP, has mods....why won't they show case it??

not sure james. Rick Jensen has been pushing Jim and others on my behalf. the only thing i have heard was that Silver is a bad color for a magazine, it doesnt photo well. i don't belive it for one minute. i have some awsome pics that i tok w/ my digital camera, and i have ZERO trainning in taking pics.
anyways, i don't wanna take anything away from this thread and the nice car Nemesis must have. congrats again.

Glenn, no worries here - I was in the same boat. They've looked at my car at several events, and Hunkins shot it at the Bristol Bash (it appeared in an article about the event), but that's as close as I've gotten in three years. He told me last night that the biggest obsticle is finding time to travel to where the car is. Apparently, he's sort of 'coming through' here on his way.

Cool deal Chad.

I'll look forward to seeing the article!

Congrats. Let us know about when the article will come out.

Jim is a real nice guy and he did a real good job on the article on my car that was in Popular Hotrodding. The best part was watching him fold himself into my passenger seat for a ride on the road course.

By the way, it does seem that you have to be in the right place at the right time to get a photo shoot with these magizines. I was supposed to have an article in GMHTP a few years ago but I could not make it to the event they were shooting due to being in the middle of a move. Then last year I got an e-mail for Jim about them covering the Speedseeker event at Road America and they would be interested in doing a shoot on my car. It was for Popular Hotrodding instead, but I was in IL at the time so I said sure.

That is sweet! PHR and GMHTP are supposed to be at the Pony Express 130 in June and the PHR guy is trying to convince GMHTP guy to do a spread on my car. Hopefully it comes through!

As the photographer of this group (I'm guessing...I'm as bad about buying and playing with camera gear as I am car stuff and I've got thousands of dollars of it in my bag right now), I have to agree that silver is a bad color. In bright sunlight, it overexposes, in dull sunlight it looks a lifeless grey (I love silver cars, don't misunderstand me). And, you have to deal with reflections and the car picking up the colors of the surroundings. It acts like a mirror and everything shows in the paint. Also, silver 'blends in" dut to the same mirror like properties.

However, Glenn, I think your car is outstanding and I like the color. The fact that it has hp and grip would seem to make it a "shoe in" for coverage.

If you get to Ohio, I'll shoot if for you (I can get nice 20x30" prints done) and maybe we can send those off to the mag to reconsider.

i have a 5.1 meg Olympus that i took a really nice pic w/. i had it blown up to a 20x30 and it is just perfect. if i can make my car look nice, they should be able too also. i'll send it to you, or anyone who will host it.

Chad, you work for Holley and a writer for GMHTP says he's having trouble finding the time to come by your way?

I'll echo that, all around. Jim is a great guy. I had to practically stuff him into my Tahoe once, I can't even imagine him in an f-body (though he owns or owned one at the time...).

Congrats on the photo shoot, that's a nice deal.

Dave