OVERVIEW:
Cars Illustrated was part of the Schneider Performance Series published by Stephen Schneider at CSK Publishing. The magazine was published
from both Hackensack and Saddle Brook, New Jersey. It was launched with other competitors in the muscle car feature space between 1983 and 1988,
all with muscle car profiles, restoration tips, technical information and profiles of reproduction parts. Feature cars combined
the best of street and strip performance. And the staff was willing to cover street racing which was a taboo with other muscle and performance
titles.
Readers may find the volume and serial numbering scheme confusing. Schneider's Vette was a well established periodical in the early 1980s, and the publisher expanded its portfolio with a sequentially numbered performance series (Schneider Performance Series 1983 to 1989). From it, two recurring titles emerged: Cars Illustrated and Muscle Cars, and Schneider alternated volume and serial numbering between the two.
Cars Illustrated was sold, along with the entire portfolio, to the McMullen Argus Publishing division of K-III Inc. in 1997. K-III later became Primedia.
The table of contents, if available, can be seen by clicking on the 
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PUBLICATION DATA:
CSK Publishing provided net paid circulation data to both Gale Research's
Directory of Publications and Oxbridge Communication's
The Standard Periodical Directory
from 1987 through 1991. Average monthly print production was around 50,000 issues through the end of the title.
CONTENT COMPLETENESS:
Twelve issues were printed from volume 3 number 4 to volume 5 number 12. All images are complete as are most table of content
pages.
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