I began reading Australian motoring magazines (Wheels, Modern Motor, Car Australia, which my father bought fairly regularly) as a child in the 1980s, and started buying older editions from the local secondhand book shop as a teenager in the 1990s. Since then, and with the advent of eBay, I have managed to collect most of the editions of the major Australian publications, plus a few international ones (space has stopped me from trying with some of the other major US and UK titles) with just a few elusive special editions still to track down.