Back Issues - 2003

December

- Free Prize Draw - The Autoglym Christmas Prize Draw Our friends at Autoglym have very kindly offered to provide one of their 'Immaculate Collection' valet packs (valued at £16.99) as a prize for a free readers draw to celebrate Christmas 2003 ... [Read more]

- Events - Review of the Historic Sports Car Club race meeting at Silverstone The trouble with October is that you never know what the weather will do. I had already been told that if it was wet, then maybe we ... [Read more]

- Events - Grand Final of the 2003 Autoglym Classic Concours The results of the Grand Final of the 2003 Autoglym Classic Concours, held over the weekend (November 8/9) at the International Classic Motor Show at the NEC, were ... [Read more]

- Readers' Restorations -
Nigel Warner's TVR 3000S (part 5)
I have cleaned the engine and checked over a few things like the clutch (which showed very little signs of wear) but as the engine was running very well I have decided just to give it a good clean ... [Read more]

- Obituary -
Edward Oehlman
This is a personal tribute my very dear friend who passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly on Friday 21st November 2003. He was aged ... [Read more]

- In the Hot Seat with ... -
Nigel Warner
My first car was a Grey 1964 Ford Anglia Estate. I bought the car, just after my 17th birthday, for ... [Read more]

- Readers' Restorations -
Esmond Tearle's Daimler Dart (part 8)
I suppose that in a funny sort of a way things have now progressed in so much as the suspension was the initial reason that my ... [Read more]

November

- Events - Review of the Prescott Speed Hill Climb If you are seriously into the classic car scene, and especially enjoy motor sport, then the chances are that you may well have heard of ... [Read more]

- In the Hot Seat with ... - Ernie Warrender 222 HLO 1964 Triumph Vitesse 1600 ... [Read more]

- Events - Review of the Charity Track day at Goodwood Motor Circuit A fine early autumn day enabled 50 drivers to enjoy their cars at Goodwood. As usual, there were no recycled kamikazes, only one Caterham and no modern Porsches; on the other hand three Aston Martins, two [Read more]

- A story for Halloween -
Smithy's Daimler
Old Smithy was not a very popular man, disliked by most and feared by many. He had lived in the run down old farmhouse on ... [Read more]

- Readers' Restorations -
Nigel Warner's TVR 3000S (part 4)
I have now stripped down the front suspension. I decided to do one side at a time so I had the other side for reference. Everything has turned out ... [Read more]

- Letters to the Editor -
Unexpected Hazard
A few evenings ago (16th September) I was driving from Pulborough to Arundel along the A29. This is a modest A road with plenty of speed limits and [Read more]

- Readers' Restorations -
Esmond Tearle's Daimler Dart (part 7)
Well last month, I didn't really have that much to report. Now that the holiday season is just a memory, and normal life has returned for most of us, things are starting... [Read more]

October

- Me & my classic - Ernie Warrender & his 1957 Daimler Majestic Just to prove that a car can be removed from long term storage, fiddled with and driven to the garage ... [Read more]

- Events - Report from the Circuit des Ramparts I heard about the Circuit des Ramparts some years ago when a friend told me about some loonies that were racing cars around the ramparts of a town called Angoulem in ... [Read more]

- Readers' Restorations -
14 year old Rob McCall's 1955 Austin A30 (part 4)
I had just finished work on a Saturday morning and I went in to eat my lunch. About five minutes later a white transit with a huge compressor trailer attached to the back ... [Read more]

- Readers' Restorations -
Esmond Tearle's Daimler Dart (part 6)
If I'm going to be perfectly honest, things have reached a bit of a go slow at ... [Read more]

- In the Hot Seat with ... -
Esmond Tearle
My very first car was a 1970 Vauxhall Viva SL. In it's day I suppose it was quite a decent car for a seventeen-year-old to own. I bought it from ... [Read more]

- Readers' Restorations -
Nigel Warner's TVR 3000S (part 3)
I first removed the passenger side front outrigger by cutting through the sill tube where it meets the outrigger and then cutting it from the body mounting plates and the 3 other points ... [Read more]

- Events -
Preview of the final of the 2003 Autoglym Concours Championship
The list of marques which will be represented at the final of the 2003 Autoglym Concours Championship at the National Exhibition Centre in November reads ... [Read more]

- Events -
A rallyists photo diary
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September

- Readers restorations -
14 year old Rob McCall's 1955 Austin A30 (part 3)

- Feature -
The Collectors Old Toy Shop

- Readers restorations -
Esmond Tearle's Daimler Dart (part 5)

- Readers restorations -
Nigel Warner's TVR 3000S (part 2)

- Events -
A rallyists photo diary

August

- Readers restorations -
14 year old Rob McCall's 1955 Austin A30 (part 2)

- Me & my classic -
Rupert Emerson & his Jensen Interceptor

- Readers restorations -
Nigel Warner's TVR 3000S

- Readers restorations -
Esmond Tearle's Daimler Dart (part 4)

- Fun with a Purpose -
Track Day at Goodwood
Including additional information and provisional participant list

- Show report -
Jaguar Enthusiasts Club National Northern Day

July

- Readers restorations -
14 year old Rob McCall's 1955 Austin A30

- Readers restorations -
Nigel Warner's 1975 Reliant Scimitar GTE SE5A

- Readers restorations -
Esmond Tearle's Daimler Dart (part 3)

- Fun with a Purpose -
Track Day at Goodwood

June

- Readers restorations -
Esmond Tearle's Daimler Dart (part 2)

- Readers restorations -
Nigel Warner's 1970 TVR Vixen S3

- Show report -
The 5^th East Midlands Classic Car & Motorcycle Show

May

- Me & my classic -
Paul Cooper & his 1956 MGA (part 2)

- Readers restorations -
Esmond Tearle's Daimler Dart (part 1)

April

- Meet the dealer -
Spinning Wheel

- Me & my classic -
Paul Cooper & his 1956 MGA (part 1)