John Gunnell’s personal impact
read with sadness the passing of John Gunnell. I never met him face to face, but he changed my life. I got out of college in the early 1980s not knowing what to do. My mother was crippled with rheumatoid arthritis and I had to take care of her, so I needed a job and to my surprise, I was mailed a copy of the magazine containing my article about early Camaro Z28s and how to spot a real one. I tried another article and it was not that up to publication’s standard, but John cared enough to edit it and send it back to me to show me how what I should do. That started a lifelong job of being an automotive journalist for different magazines, and then to book contracts and eventually starting my own publishing company. For someone who I never met face to face, John sure had a lasting impact on my life.
