Jalopy Magazine

[warren t claim]

what by doing lines on the table with a fresh one of these

 

 

No, unfortunatly that's my past your thinking of! Which explains why my bitch of an ex is insisting I give a hair sample for forensic analasys before I am allowed anywhere near my own son.... Fuckin' trollp...

[VWPowered]

fuck, not nice that , been there and enjoyed the 'coke' days (or weeks) sadly now i dont touch the stuff i have a naff sleep patern and find it hard to go to sleep

[warren t claim]

fuck, not nice that , been there and enjoyed the 'coke' days (or weeks) sadly now i dont touch the stuff i have a naff sleep patern and find it hard to go to sleep

Same here. I do miss my "partying" days but as I rapidly approach 40 I need a bit of stability in my life. I thought I had it too...

[VWPowered]

thing i learnt with woman is you cant trust any of them....mind i think most woman think the shame too keep yaself clean, see ya kids, fingers up to the ex...

[Mr Lobster]

What about 'Your Classic' magazine? For me that was the first classic car mag that had a suitably non-serious approach to old cars, with plenty of rust, scrapyard pics etc. Maybe it did nowt that practical classics wasnt already doing but it always seemed more colourful and varied. It was a great mag, I might dig out a few copies and scan a few bits in.

 

 

Edit - of course Jalopy was legendary and has had no equal apart from the short-lived Original Tin of course.

Your Classic was the first 'classic' magazine I read. They did do some nice scrapyard features and it seemed a lot better than PC etc. They did a really nice A4 sized supplement on scrapyard discoveries - wish I still had that as it was great.

[trigger]

I think the first classic car magazine i read was Popular Classics, I bought that every month and it was such a good read.I loved the photos from the past part, Bit like PC mag does now but there would be 5 or 6 old photo with cars in.There would often be articles on mega low mileage cars like Vauxhall Victors, Mini 1275GT and Spitfires i like to read about as well.

[r.welfare]

I've got all the issues of Jalopy - PM me with your e-mail address, STB, and I'll scan and e-mail it to you.I was a big fan of Your Classic too - I had a pretty much full set that I freecycled in the summer. Chris Horton and co. seemed to concentrate on common (at the time) chod from the practical, daily driver kind of angle. Decent features and good tech articles too.

[Spottedlaurel]

Another Your Classic reader here, still got a big stack of them. I think I bought it because of its links with Classics & Sportscar which I was quite loyal to at the time.

[r.welfare]

If anyone has got the copy of Jalopy with my Lotus 7 in I wouldn't mind a scan of it. I did have every copy at one point, but in one of my many house moves they went. (I can't remember who I gave them to)

As if by magic:

 

[Father Ted]

At some point - and I realise what a mammoth task it will be (from doing THIS) but someone is going to have to scan, PDF and shove the LOT onto a CD-R.

 

Perhaps if we all scan an issue....?

[Guest]

I'll be smug and admit to owning every copy of Jalopy. Only got one issue of Real Cla$$ics (the TR7 issue) and just a few Your Cla$$ics though. All were much better than PC, which I find a terrible bore. Anyone fancy a couple hundred PCs?

[scruff]

Your Classic was great, I've still got a few (including, predictibly, the one with the LR buying guide). I remember a feature on a massive Yank scrapyard at Battersea, wonder what happened to that?

[warren t claim]

Your Classic was great, I've still got a few (including, predictibly, the one with the LR buying guide). I remember a feature on a massive Yank scrapyard at Battersea, wonder what happened to that?

The only problem with Your Classic was the obvious Rover P6 bias due to Chris Horton.

[scruff]

Thanks to the kindness of tontops I have been discovering the joys of JALOPY. My god, it's sheer genius, real belly-laugh material - like Autoshite.com in magazine form. Even the ads are kwality, DEAD FIAT FACTORY - SEVERAL UNDER £500 CARS AVAILABLE

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Your Classic was great, I've still got a few (including, predictibly, the one with the LR buying guide). I remember a feature on a massive Yank scrapyard at Battersea, wonder what happened to that?

The only problem with Your Classic was the obvious Rover P6 bias due to Chris Horton.

Nah, that wasnt a problem.

[Timewaster]

Thanks to tontops I have been discovering the joys of JALOPY. My god, it's sheer genius

You're welcome. Be sure to pass them around!

[Minimad5]

Being a Jalopy virgin i would be super happy if someone could point me in the direction of a Jalopy to borrow or buy

[eggy]

im keepin my eye on ebay for these,never been lucky enogh to read one

Edit - of course Jalopy was legendary and has had no equal apart from the short-lived Original Tin of course.

ive got a couple of these, how many were there? it was a great read

[pogweasel]

Just managed to score a couple of issues of Jalopy off eBay, which is pleasing. Think once they arrive I will get scanning.

[The Main]

Can anyone remember the sheer excitement of reading the first ever Practical Classics in 1980? Wall to wall shite - Oxfords, Mark 11 Slags etc.I know what you mean. I came across my first Craptical Pratics sometime during Summer 1986. I can actually remember seeing it on the wall of the newsagent stall in Neath Market, it was the issue with the Mark 3 Zephyrs & Zodiacs on the front cover. - there was a buyer's guide dedicated to the model inside. I couldn't believe I'd found a magazine (and by association, like-minded people) who were clearly obsessed with the sort of 'old bangers' I loved. And I was only 11 years old at the time. I loved the genuinely irreverent, almost Autoshitesque approach to writing about older cars which somehow always made you want to try to run and repair almost every dodgy old car you could find. Truly interesting stuff seemed so accessible then, and I wish I'd been old enough and in a better position to take advantage of the over-supply of cheap-yet-desirable classics. I especially enjoyed the 'Scrapyards Guide' which appeared almost every month and was a kind of forerunner of the 'Rust In Peace' type of features which are ubiquitous today. Back in the days when scrapyards still had plenty of 60's Rootes Group saloons, Anglias, Mk 1 & 2 Cortinas, BMC Farinas, Victors, etc and almost everything inside their corrugated iron gates was built before 1976. Magic.I bought every issue for years after that, although it was never the quite the same after Emap took it over. It hit the spot for a long time - great writers like Peter Simpson (his Mark 3 Zephyr buying guide still sticks in my mind today, although it was nearly twenty years later before I finally bought a Mark 3 of my own - a blue Zodiac, XPM 865). He seemed to know lots about the Arthur Daley end of the motor trade (i.e. the interesting part!). I enjoyed Peter's series on rescuing, running and eventually restoring a Volvo Amazon saloon and was very excited a few years later when the same car materialised in my home village of Skewen in South Wales, in the custody of it's then co-owner (a chap called David, if I remember correctly). I wonder who has it now?I always enjoyed Paul Sanderson's contributions to 'Staff Car Sagas', with his decidedly dodgy-looking Wolseley 1500 (or did he have two?) and felt gutted for him when some kids pinched his lovely old Wolseley 6/80 and rammed it very hard into a very solid tree.Paul Skilleter contributed loads of interesting features like how to get a car running which hadn't been touched for decades, and was clearly obsessed with old tat as much as the Jaguars he is best-known for writing about. I seem to recall him demonstrating a similar level of enthusiasm for a £300 Mark 4 Zodiac as he did for an XK120 roadster.As I say, loads of excellent writers who didn't seem to pander too much to their advertisers or give a monkeys about fashion - just an enthusiasm for running old (they didn't often bother calling them 'classic') cars. Can't remember them all but Chris Graham, Lindsay Porter, Gordon Wright and John Williams also spring to mind.

[pogweasel]

right, which of you BASTARDS just outbid me to issues 3&4 on eBay!??

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 0364089449

 

Disappointed is not the word.

[outlaw118]

Not me...but they were on my watch list...that I forgot to check.....

[lancashireclamper]

I've got a full set of jalopy's (which I'd never part with) but have duplicate copies of issues 3, 5 and 9, always meant to stick the on the bay but never got round to it, anybody interested in making an offer for the three of them? they are well thumbed with maybe the odd advert cut out but in readable condition.