I used to adore reading my dad’s How it Works magazines. They were a part-work from Marshall Cavendish, running from a-z over 84 issues. I remember one cover featured the APT “leaning train.”

I used to buy Airgun World and dream of owning a Webley Vulcan…

I had to hide my stash as if they were pron as my mum was very anti-airguns. To be fair though, her friend’s son had lost his right eye due to airgun misuse.

I still have every issue of How it works, except 1. How annoying is that !!!

Edited to add

Except one issue, not missing issue 1.

I also loved 2000AD as a kid too.

Fiesta

jugs MBUK.

The pr0n ones I found in a bush at the park

Look and Learn, brilliant magazine, had stories in, how things work, fantastic cutaway drawings…
I used to read mine over and over, nothing like it now, sadly. 🙁

Health & Efficiency. It was my brother’s.

Sky magazine. Porn for the under 18s. Naked Kylie. It was great! 🙂

2000AD & the soft porn that was Loaded

I used to love The Unexplained. As a kid I was fascinated that there was all this “stuff” out there, and it gave me a good grounding as an adult in dealing critically with people who talk bobbins.

Victor, then Superbike, for similar reasons to some above.

Aside from pr0n I used to love Street Machine, Custom Car, BMX Bi-Weekly and BMX Action Bike

Practical Photography – or how to take pics of Jugs, that and F1 weekly

Loaded & 2000AD

Eagle. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Dan Dare but Charley’s War and Death Wish made me wait by the letter box for it every week.

Amstrad Action

and

lol Amstrad Action and trying to make the tapes work – we were the 6128 posh kids but couldn’t justify the cost of ordering the disc.

My father’s copies of Flight International.

Especially the cutaways.

Used to buy MBUK a lot when I was a kid, got my first mountain bike off he back of one of their reviews (Giant Coldrock)

Later I’m ashamed to say I turned to Maxx Power..briefly.

Oh, I forgot about RAD magazine from my skating days.

Speed and Power when I was young

Electronics Today International and Cars and Car Conversion when I was older

I had the first 120 issues of Take Off – a weekly aircraft magazine. I also had a large number of the early MBUK’s.

Shoot magazine,

It was about football (honest).

Dirt Bike
Thrasher (if you could ever track it down)
Surfer
TMX News
Car and Car Conversion
Motorsport Weekly
Autosport
Bike

Electronics Today International

I’ve got a copy of “Computing Today” on my desk at work, from 1982. It’s great for blowing the minds of the junior engineers. Centre spread is a two-page advert for the Osborne 1, showing a woman walking jauntily along with her £1250 portable computer, weighing just 24lbs (the same as three 2L bottles of pop).

Anything found in a hedge

24lbs (the same as three 2L bottles of pop).

FAIL!

Eagle. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Dan Dare but Charley’s War and Death Wish made me wait by the letter box for it every week.

+1 My Dad and I used to fight over who would read it first.

White Dwarf, Motor Sport and 2000AD.

weighing just 24lbs (the same as three 2L bottles of pop) Every 160mm bike on STW.

FIFY

2000AD

and Mayfair

and Razzle

And Fiesta

And Whitehouse

and….

200AD (nbt ninja edited!) 😛

Is that the one about the Roman Empire? 😉

I had this from Issue 1. Til Mum chucked em out 🙁

lifetime..

victor.. waiting at the letter box every sat morning..

2000ad ( still get it..)

custom car then CCC then rallysport, MN , autosport

mountain bike action then MBUK

TMX.. classic bike
singletrack

FAIL!

I thought that didn’t sound right, dunno quite what happened there. Five bottles.

and of course, every wednesday on the way to school:

changed my life, it did.

NME and Melody Maker – but only in the days when they had CD’s sometimes – still have some

MTB Pro then MBUK.
Fast Bikes.
Usual array of lads mags, Loaded was the obvious favourite.
NME or Q as well.