Corvette Quarterly: Retooling or headed for junkyard?

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Corvette owners will have one less place to read about their favorite car — at least for the next six months.

Corvette Quarterly, the in-house magazine aimed at fans of the iconic Chevrolet sports car, recently told readers it would not publish its spring and summer issues.

According to a message on the magazine’s website, “we are taking some time to make Corvette Quarterly the best source of Corvette news available.”

That hinted that the magazine, which claims a circulation of 250,000, could return some day. But given the financial woes facing Chevy’s parent General Motors, some Corvette fans were concerned that Corvette Quarterly may never return, or that if it does, it would be only as an online publication.

New Corvette buyers got the magazine free for three years. Other enthusiasts paid $33.95 for a three-year subscription. GM sent refunds to paying subscribers — another clue that the hard-copy CQ may be an endangered species.

Its demise wouldn’t be lamented by all Corvette buffs. Noland Adams, a Corvette expert and former president of the Solid Axle Corvette Club in North Highlands, Calif., said the magazine appealed mainly to owners of newer Corvette models, not the classics that Adams and his colleagues prefer.

“It’s mostly news about the new Corvettes. That’s what they’re interested in publicizing,” Noland said. “To my group, Corvette Quarterly is kind of a lost cause.”

-- Martin Zimmerman