Inter in practical classics.

[Bob Purton]

Hi all. I know you must all by tired of me banging on about my Inter by now but just in case you were interested in the article and photo shoot that was being prepared at the time of Jeans open day, it came out today in Practical classics October edition. They gave me four pages and twelve photos out of the one hundred or so taken at the farm. I also notice that its been entered in a competition, the twelve restorations featured in the year will be put to the readers vote, first prize is £2500 second is £1000 and third £500. As the readership of the glossies are only interested in MG's and Triumphs I will not be booking an early holiday! If I win anything I will buy you all a drink!

[marcus]

Nice one Bob! Will check it out. Stout, Porter or any decent Bitter will be just dandy! TRs and MGs are very pop in glossies, but they do SOMETIMES plump for the oddballs.

[Inaheinkel]

Hi Bob

I think you stand as good a chance as anyone.

Most of the cars are off the shelf rstoration jobs, you just have to throw some money at the bits and a decent respray. Yours is different and if it shows the pictures of before and after I hope most people would appreciate that it too a bit more effort to gt to the standard you achieved.

Good luck, mines a pint

John

[Stuart Cyphus]

 I went out & bought a copy today & I think that's about the first time in five years I've bought a plebulant classic car mag! Mind you, there was something good in it this time and the article was of a decent length & depth. Someting a lot of the mags usually fall short on........     Now who's going to vote next mounth & help Bob pick up the two & half grand?

 Go on then Bob, you can tell us. Having written a couple of articles for commercial magazines myself, I know the score. How much of your article actully bears any resembleance to what you originally said/wrote?   

[Bob Purton]

Stuart, you are spot on, these things never end up as you expect, I didnt write the article but was just interviewed over the phone, the next thing I see is that the article is written in the first person and I have to say thats its not my style at all, it has a boastful ring about it especially the bit about this is the only one ect, I was shown the draft and said I didnt like that bit and couldn't guarantee its accuracy but it stayed in. In fairness they did edit a few mistake out and I suppose at the end of the day its just a bit of fun. Its a good advert though if I decide to sell in the future. I did write the one in the next RCN though and it includes a couple of new things learned.

[Dan Rodd]

i still have the classics mag with your schmitt in Bob somewhere will ahve to go and get a copy,something interesting to read for a change.I wouldnt be too surprised if you won something Bob,as a large proportion of the mags readers are fed up with mgs,jaguars,escorts and minors too,and people love anything different

[Bob Purton]

Thanks for the encouragement Dan. It would be nice to get something back of the fortune I spent restoring the car. And now that the Bubble car museum is closing for relocation as we learned at the national its would be home is not available, im looking for somewhere to keep it.

[Jawmedead]

Try a council lockup!

[Bob Purton]

I have tried that Rob but in Havering there is a huge waiting list and because this is commuter belt country private garages are a fortune! Of course I do still have the option of folding the wheels up again and putting it back in the workshop but I really need the space for the next project. Have you done that welding yet Mr Dobie?

[Chris Thomas]

Dear Bob

I have finaly read through my copy of Practical Classics November edition, I have cut out the coupon, that takes out a third of a page of editorial and pictures, and I have sent it off with your item as my prefered Readers Resoration project. So you can restassured that you have at least two votes already. I am not sure what the other guys have voted for, if at all!

I do hope you win something for all your hard work.

Chris Thomas

[Bob Purton]

Dear Chris. That's jolly civil of you! Many thanks.  Shame one has to butcher the mag to do it really. I had forgotten about the competition but I suppose I should be rousing everyone to do the same as yourself. Come on lads, send those coupons in and lets further raise the profile of microcars in the glossies! If it wins I will bring a couple of party sevens to the 2009 Rum open day {do you remember those, I never discovered the knack of opening one and pouring without it going all over the place!} Better still there is a pub around the corner!

[marcus]

Good idea Bob. Apparently Party Sevens are back! Back in my youth what you took to a party depended on available funds, if there was enough we would get a party seven, less and we got a party four. Sometimes we got a bottle of Rocamar Red "wine". In 1970 this was CHEAP, but had the interesting effect of covering your teeth with wall-to-wall carpeting!

[P50]

I think that's about the first time in five years I've bought a plebulant classic car mag!

Are you suggesting Captain C that all 'ordinaries' who suscribe to Practical Classics et al are plebs?

On that basis I suspect that you consider thus .  Micro, nay IC enthusiasts occupy a higher plane and are deemed superior?!

hmm?  What are we to make of the Captains assumptions?!...........

 

[Bob Purton]

Like Captain Cyphus I never buy the glossy mags and I'm sure a lot of them are for MGB driving plebs as Stu puts it but I have to say that reading through the october issue of Pracical Classics there is some pretty interesting stuff ! There is stuff about prewar racing, 1950/60's delivery vans, Renault Carevelle, as well as articles about leather restoration and panel beating etc. So, something for everyone right across the board really. Although we all love Stu and his eccentricity who really are the plebs, readers of practical classics who activley learn to restore there cars and have a reasonably wide interest within the classic car movement or people who buy a bath chair and put it in the shed and possibly tosh some dulux over it? I'm still not sure but you are right P50, the question has to be asked!

[Stuart Cyphus]

Are you suggesting Captain C that all 'ordinaries' who suscribe to Practical Classics et al are plebs?

 Dear oh dear, such knicker-twisting over one little word.    The term "plebulant" in my usage refered to the general subject, not the readers. with emphasis on the "common" or "normal" part of the dictionary deffinition.

 Most shop-shelf magazines cover the sort of cars which I personally cannot get much enthused about about these days. These days I tend to go for the total border-line obscurities, which no "popular" magazine really looks at (October edition of Practical Classics excepted) which is why I've seldom bought one in recent years.  Now where did I put my RUM Car News.......