The current (February) issue of C&S is worth a look-in too, having a rather good (as in nice pics) four-page article on a Ford Eight-engined Hazelcar. Usual slightly condesending style of writing, but at least they ARE featuring micros. This one the Hazelcar, November the Petite, & last March the Zagato Zele.
At the end of the day, C&S isn't a bad mag by any means (after all, motanota writes for it!
) Compared to lots of other mags, they do give us some nice pictures to look at and a bit of detail to read, but one can't really say it exists in the real world, with small ads for cars with an asking price of over a million each!!!!
Oh, one thing that amused me in the current issue. On page 149, Chris Hunt, Chairman of the FBHVC, outlines his New Year "wishlist" in an ideal world, and one of his wishes is for the DVLA to finally accept that a vehicle cannot ever have been registered before it was built. Sorry to contradict, but it IS perfectly possible for a vehicle to have been registered before it was made! In fact, it was quite common practice with invalid carriages built in the 1970s when the manufactuer was allocated a block of registration numbers anything up to three months before the car went down the production line and the Ministry insisted on knowing (on paper) what speciforcation of conveyance was being built, and how many, at any certain time. Was it any wonder that the manufactuers used to inform the ministry & DVLA of what they had built BEFORE they had actully built it in order to get all the tedius paperwork out of the way in order to actully get on and make the things.
My old Model 70 I had back in 2002 was a good example. First registered & taxed at the end of October 1975, yet it wasn't actully built until mid December......
