Onwards and upwards for Copacetic

Guild member Daniel Bevis has been in touch with details of his plans to grow and diversify Copacetic magazine, which he launched last summer.

“The success of Copacetic has been really encouraging,” Daniel said. “The aim from the outset was to create the sort of magazine that I’d want to read, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find that apparently other people want to read it too!”

The publication focuses on modified cars of all styles, marques and genres, from home-built project cars to high-end restomods and everything in between, presented with beautiful design on quality paper stock as a premium coffee-table magazine. The line-up of contributors includes Guild members Trinity Francis and Tim Pitt, Richard Porter, Alex Goy, Helen Stanley, Antony Ingram and numerous other celebrated names from across the industry.

“Issue 5 is about to go to print, and I can confidently say it’s our best one yet,” Daniel continues. “It’s been a very steep learning curve, and we’re evolving a lot with each issue. Having been a freelancer for the last 15 years or so, I had pretty much no knowledge of how the actual mechanics of running a magazine as a business works – so I jumped in with both feet, took out a loan and just made it happen. 

“I had a lot of excellent advice, including invaluable and ongoing support from fellow Guild member Ian Robertson, and it seems to be working… the aim for 2026 is to make it profitable. Or at least, er, maybe break even at some point.”

Plans for the near future include a line of themed quarterly bookazines, the first of which will cover modified Fords, with further issues looking at air-cooled Volkswagens, Japanese cars and various other popular niches. There’ll also be a line of merchandise, including t-shirts, hoodies, stickers and all the usual treats.

“Another fun project we tackled at the end of last year was to produce Retropower’s new club magazine – meaning that Copacetic isn’t just a magazine, it’s a publishing house,” Daniel added. “We’ll be doing this for Retropower on a quarterly basis henceforth, and hopefully this is a service we can provide for other organisations, owners’ clubs and so on.”

Details of Copacetic can be found here.