TMCP #473: Steve Rupp – The Life and Ever-changing Times of a Magazine Writing Superstar
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Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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This week, marks the return of Steven Rupp! You may not remember hearing Steve on this show unless you go way back to one of our very first interviews in episode 37. Back then he was working for Camaro Performer magazine and loving it! He started at Motor Trend as the Technical Editor for Popular Hot Rodding before moving to the Camaro only publication where he wrote tech articles as he built fast cars. He went on to helm Super Chevy Magazine as well as other publications and is today one of the most highly read authors on the MotorTrend family of website magazine publications. I ran into Steven again and thought it would be great to get an update on what he has been up to, and most specifically to understand how magazine for him has changed since 2010. To put it short.....nearly everything has changed except the love for cars!
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 473. |
| 0:04.9 | This week, our guest is Steve Rupp from basically every car magazine you've ever read, print, and now online. |
| 0:12.5 | He was with Super Chevy, Vet, Hot Rod. |
| 0:15.3 | He now writes for everything that ends up at Hotrod.com, I believe. |
| 0:19.4 | He's still the tech journalist that you go to. He still |
| 0:21.9 | gets a bazillion page views, I'm assuming. And while the magazine landscape has changed a lot, |
| 0:28.1 | especially in the last two years, he's still going strong. This is the interview where you learn |
| 0:32.9 | where automotive journalism is today in 2021. And you're also going to learn the names of everybody |
| 0:38.0 | used to read. You're going to know where everybody ended up. Steve's favorite topic of all, though, |
| 0:42.8 | is pro touring. His first-gen Camaro bad penny won one of the first Optima Invitationals over 10 years |
| 0:48.7 | ago. He just restored and sold Mark Stilo's tri-tip 69 Camaro. That was Mark's first build. |
| 0:55.0 | He, Steve, just bought himself a brand new 2019, 1L-E-Z-L-1. |
| 1:00.0 | So to me, that firm ride is I can put up with it. |
| 1:03.0 | As far as the automatic versus manual, I know, on an intellectual level, |
| 1:06.0 | I know the 10th speed is faster, and that I'll probably have faster |
| 1:10.0 | lap times with a 10-speed automatic, and that I'll probably have faster last times with a 10 speed |
| 1:11.7 | automatic but that's not the point this is the muscle car place weekly online podcast brought to you by |
| 1:23.5 | national parts depot this is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American |
| 1:30.0 | muscle cars. Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:37.6 | Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. Okay, this is a big show today. |
| 1:47.8 | We have an extended length interview with Megastar Automotive journalist Steve Rupp. And I got a few things for you and then I'm going to get out of the way for that. |
| 1:55.5 | This is my last show for the next two weeks. And July just happens to be a five-week month if you have paid attention. |
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