If you’re a car magazine fiend like me, you probably enjoyed visiting the newsstand when that was a thing. Yet if you collect titles that precede your birth date, or you don’t know which issues you’re missing, then it may be difficult to learn what was published. Sure, you can peruse eBay, but that’s not foolproof because it’s only as good as what’s listed by sellers at a given moment. To address this issue, you should visit 99wspeedshop.com for your magazine collection needs.
Named after Oregon Highway 99W — no significance except to the webmaster — this website features U.S. automobile magazine covers from 1945 to 2025. Per the webmaster:
This site contains history information on performance- and custom-oriented automotive magazines that were published in the United States, that started publication between 1945 and 2020, and that had content featuring: hot rods; street rods; custom cars; lowriders; domestic and foreign production factory cars; antique, veteran, vintage and collectible vehicles; trucks; vans; pickups; sports cars; Volkswagens; race vehicles; replica vehicles such as kit cars and dune buggies; tuners, sports compact and hot hatches; go-karts; model cars; slot car magazines; and electric vehicle retrofits.
The FAQ section indicates these are magazines from the United States published in several frequencies (including annuals). They include automotive magazines for hobbyists, consumers, and racers. For marque-specific titles, if it isn’t Chevrolet, Ford, Pontiac, or Mopar, then it’s excluded from documentation. You can find titles alphabetically, by category, by publisher, and more.
Currently, over 500 titles are included, so there’s a good chance that there’s something for you to find, if not discover. If you are not able to find what you seek, perhaps Robert E. Lee’s Global List of Periodicals will suit you — supposedly, he’s been cataloging car magazines and books for almost seven decades. This is more of a list of titles than a demonstration and photos of the issues available, so there is a complementary relationship here that should come in handy for collectors.
