If there was a new classic car mag

[dieselnutjob]

/\/\/\ To be fair, part of that air of smugness could have been from the avoidance of paying the congestion charge. It's an inferior level of smugness to what I'd feel if I needed to avoid paying said charge and had LPG'd an old shiter.

That won't work. I think only cars bought with LPG from new count, or something like that. Aftermarket conversions don't get the concession.You can get the concession for a shite transit though, if it has nine or more seats. And I think you might get to use bus lanes too.

Can't see any party reversing the rolling tax tbh at the moment. And I'd agree with 'wobbler - I'd rather pay for my road tax and be able to use my car whenever etc rather than have free road tax but a historic status restricting use in some way.

There is no restriction on current historic (i.e. pre 73) cars. Personally I think a 30 year rolling rule would cost sod all in lost tax. And if you have say a 26 year old car you would still know that in four years its free.Personally I'm thinking that if I buy a 12 month disc, drive it to the end of the month, get a refund, and then go and buy another 12 month disc, that it will cost them more in admin than they will make. Therefore I might do it as a protest.

[M'coli]

I've managed to do one of the 2, I've managed to avoid paying the charge by not living in London (my wife's a Londoner, she moved before we got married!) but I've yet to LPG an old shiter.

[Mr Lobster]

Can't see any party reversing the rolling tax tbh at the moment. And I'd agree with 'wobbler - I'd rather pay for my road tax and be able to use my car whenever etc rather than have free road tax but a historic status restricting use in some way.

There is no restriction on current historic (i.e. pre 73) cars. Personally I think a 30 year rolling rule would cost sod all in lost tax.

No but if they were to reintroduce tax excemption for cars over 30 years old I'd be fairly sure there would be some sort of restriction on use in a similar way to France etc as DW mentions.`Wouldn't cost a massive amount in lost revenue but it would still have an impact and theres no way they could do that, or be seen to be doing it in this economic climate.

[mouseflakes]

I'd also like to see stuff about driving old motors that is actually about driving them & bans words such as "surge", "burble" and "waft".

Surely those words are allowed in the latter half of a write-up if the drive includes a stop for lunch mid-way?Oh no, it has to be about the cars doesn't it? Sorry.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

It seems to me that the more car magazines there are, the less the general level of satisfacton with em. Nowadays you can get a glossy magazine for your preferred make (in which the 'chosen' marque ALWAYS comes out on top in any comparison tests!!!), several off for the more common makes. Classic mags now come in about 100 guises, practical, exotic, motorsport, 'retro', modified, standard, etc and yet still the number of complaints to happy customers seems to be 100:1. I think that the mag situaiton is probably better than it has ever been, but because theres so many, folk complain if theres no magazine with EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT RIGHT THERE AND THEN in it. I would like to publish a mag, then when the complaints start to flow, print a big editorial telling whingers to F**K RIGHT OFF and read something else! Deeply satisfying.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Well, if anyone never got a copy of Original Tin, I've stuck up a temporary webpage to sell off some back issues.

 

Later today I'll put the articles from the first issue on there.

 

http://www.originaltin.co.uk

[r.welfare]

One man's history of cars costing between £50 and £200

Oh Christ, that one's got loads of spelling and grammar mistakes in it I preferred the works of "C Potato" myself.

[Mr Lobster]

Well, if anyone never got a copy of Original Tin, I've stuck up a temporary webpage to sell off some back issues. http://www.originaltin.co.uk

Ace!You has £2.

[sludgeguts]

Well, if anyone never got a copy of Original Tin, I've stuck up a temporary webpage to sell off some back issues. Later today I'll put the articles from the first issue on there. yhttp://www.originaltin.co.uk

Sounds right up my street this.You have another £2.

[M'coli]

Indeed, I have just paid my £2!

[Roc 24v]

and me.

[dieselnutjob]

Wouldn't cost a massive amount in lost revenue but it would still have an impact and theres no way they could do that, or be seen to be doing it in this economic climate.

I think it might be better for the conservatives if the don't win this election. They will just spend 5 years cleaning up Brown's mess.Better for them to loose it this time so that the full impact of his incompetence is realised, and Labour have to at least start the cleanup. But, yes, I suspect that whatever has previously been said historic car tax concessions and married mans/family type allowancies are stuffed whoever gets back in.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Thanks guys, mags in the post.

One man's history of cars costing between £50 and £200

Oh Christ, that one's got loads of spelling and grammar mistakes in it I preferred the works of "C Potato" myself.

It was a good piece! So was your Opel story in the first one.I can't bear to even look at the things I've written, I can't let go.

[Rusty Pelican]

How about denying the existence of MGBs, completely blank them, never heard of them, in if one parks on your foot you don't even acknowledge it and just wait for it to go kind of a way. MGB? No such thing mate. They're a myth, like dragons, unicorns, man made climate change, honest MPs etc.

Excuse me , but WTF is an MGB

[scruff]

I would like to publish a mag, then when the complaints start to flow, print a big editorial telling whingers to F**K RIGHT OFF and read something else! Deeply satisfying.

I can't tell you how utterly fantastic that would be. If I was a publishing mogal-slash-car nut a-la Ian Fraser I would do just that, in fact Fraser and Car came close a few times Usually I ignore the real arseholes but I lost my rag once with someone who put a highly offensive post on some forum about what tossers we were, how we never featured the motors he liked, and how he would never have his vehicle in any magazine. So I scanned and posted a 18-month-old piece from our mag featuring no less than his smiling mug and wanky motor in full technicolor... and the wanker had sent me a glowing email saying how happy he was with it.

[Tayne]

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[Pete-M]

Historic plates on your car. They make 'em stand out. I believe France and Austria and Australia already have such restrictions.

As do Czech and Germany.

 

Czech set up is mental, car has to be 30 years old (so the Escort is ok ), car has to be registered with a car club that keeps pictures of the car and specification (has to be completely original spec, can't even change the radio / wheels / few other minor bits), a "V" plate is then issued to the owner which, if memory serves me right, they can put on any 30+ yr old car which they own. Insurance is dirt cheap, but the road tax is still the equivalent of £35ish - not that you need it, the road tax only counts on motorways and I think a few select big dual carriageways.

 

(Pic Stolen from Wiki)

[Tayne]

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[Des]

Excuse me , but WTF is an MGB

Psychosis screening keyword.'Where patient presents mentioning the M word, testing shall be halted until subject is restrained. In the absence of hallucinogenic drugs severe mental disorder must be assumed.'

[Des]

Oh, and re. the round headlamp thing, no loophole shenanigans trying to get modern stuff under the radar and defined as classic so that, come the glorious day, it escapes the mobile crusher death squads. The round lamps on modern stuff are not really round, look closely and they're oval, proper circular lamps aren't handed either, so there.

[whitevanman]

OT funds increased +1

[brammy777]

Just got an OT Recently, I have been buying alot more old magazines to satisfy my needs on what Id like to read, I say bring back the hideously blunt replys they used to give people if they were being slightly negative or know it all. Put them in there place.It must be so hard making magazines, on one hand you want to put things you and your team like in it, but to make ends meet you have to appeal to the wider audience. Without a wider appeal, people wont even pick it up to scan the inside pages, so chance of buying is zero.Hey if OT does get put back into print, Ill see if we can get a few issues a month at Odiham Martins....

[garethj]

Mr Bollox's shed thread on Retro-Rides has a massive following.

Got a link?

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... 171&page=1You may be there for some time.

thanks dude, a ggod read

[M'coli]

That's bloody impressive, I've got my copy of OT just a day after I ordered it! Thanks!

[Mr Lobster]

Mine arrived today! Impressive stuff.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'd order a copy of OT, but [whinge]I found it started to become heavily biased away from my preferred marque and the writers were obviously half wits living in the pockets of biotech corporations, who'd done no research at all yadda yadda yadda[/whinge] I've already got both issues.

[barrett]

another £2 in the coffers from me...

[trigger]

As it's only £2, I've paid up as well!

[barrett]

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid10791390001?bctid=44787607001

[IanF]

Banged £2 in as well.Hope there are enough to go around now