If the cars are going back to 50's and 60's build style how about the magazine articles?  Maybe a low buck T bucket or touring with a home built frame (with plans), all the mounts, wiring and hard lines etc, in articles with diagrams.  To modernize go to an EcoTec or Quad 4 engine to keep the fuel economy in the picture.  You could even do articles on swap meets, EBay, and scrounging wrecking yards  chasing down wheels, axles, transmision and ??  You could start a whole movement for under $5000 cars.  I'll have to go back and look but I think R&C did this in 65 or 66, I think that Car Craft did as well.  

Thanks for the input! Street Rodder and PHR actually have both run stories fairly recently about buying car at swap meets and online. But it would definetly be cool if R&C did some articles like that as well  

I drive a truck and just went thru the LA basin area and saw a lot of pre 48 and 50's cars and trucks sitting behind buildings and fences gathering dust.  No need to search the internet, you have plenty in you own backyard. If you drove from Banning to San Bernadino on 10 you can find at least 8 that fit this criteria.(early Stude PU, 47 Ford Sedan, 53 or 4 Ford PU, several early Chev sedans etc.) and I've seen more in the Norwalk, Ontario, Culver City and Carson areas from the freeways!  If you drove the streets trolling for steel, I'm betting you could find a lot more and it would be more interesting than a search the internet article, and could give you a project car at a lower initial cost.  

Oh yeah absolutley, you definetly find some cool stuff driving around, doing it the old fashioned way.