Practical classics strikes again Spring 2009

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ripvanwinkle

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Hi ,
Practical classics Spring Edition has an article on Gas vs TIG welding . The " Top Tip " on Page 67 ,picture 4, of the gas welding article recommends "Notifying your home insurer of what you intend to do in your garage . -----------------"
Sound advice when they specify an acetylene pressure of 15Bar , 225 PSIG at the torch!! . This should be enough to burn down the house and garage .They also don't emphasise that acetylene cylinders need to be treated with respect and should be chained vertically to a wall or hefty cart
Perhaps this is an April Fool's day prank ?
Practical Comics seems to be a better name for this magazine ??
I must remember not to renew my subscription
Cheers
RVW
 
I took out a year's subscription and got a free torque wrench . They seem to have renewed it without asking
The plan must be to subscribe for a year at a time and then renew when there's a good gift on order

It's definitely going downhill in quality - ,maybe it's because we have more experience than some of the young contributors
 
A friend just bought a cheap TIG / MMA /Plasma Cutter all in one unit for about £250, I haven't had a play with it yet, but apparently the plasma cutter cut through some 7mm steel like a hot knife through butter... If the TIG aspect turns out to be any good then it will be a very usefull machine.

I can't say I would recommend anybody using gas at home, especially when MIG is so easy and reasonably safe. I guess there are some jobs that can't be done with MIG.
 
Practical comics strikes , yet again September 2009!!!
Aaaaagh , the kiddies comic has discovered P4 Rovers . Move over James Taylor ,their intrepid author has unearthed a previously unknown series of pre WW11 Rovers ; the P60 .
These teenage clowns posing as serious writers are clueless when blathering about anything more than 10 years old!
Definitely NOT renewing my subscription
Cheers
RVW
 
Practical Classics has become utter tosh over the last 5-6 years... It used to have a great team of writers who really cared about classics and you could see it in their writing... A V8 E-class is not such a bad thing but probably best featured in the more 'youthful' magazines that we see on the shelves of our local newsagents... Seriously though, there's too much technical stuff and not enough on the cars themselves and I haven't bought this magazine for years (they cannot even identify obvious classics at times too which is infuriating to say the least!!!)... It has to be Classic & Sportscar for me, that is a superb read most of the time...
 
Sam Glover, one of the feature writers of Practical Classics owns two P6s, having just bought a 3500S Hunstman in Mexico Brown, in addition to the Brown Laser that he took to Iran.

Sam is also a member of this forum having joined just a few weeks ago. Well, why wouldn't he, he owns two of them.

It's all to easy to criticise, but I like PracticalClassics and find it a riveting read. Watch out for my old girl in the October issue :wink:
 
i like practical classics!
i also have a subscription and yes they give a free gift when you take this option out.
last year it was renewed without asking so i rang up and asked for the free gift and duely got it!
this year i shall do the same or stop my subscription and re- start it!
think its a case of asking for it!
i read classics monthly as well but there seems to be not much in it for my interest.
apart from the p6 stuff of course
 
I still quite like Practical Classics and it's the only car magazine I buy every month. Although I can relate to some of the above comments that they don't feature enough in the way of pre-war cars and sometimes they make the odd gaff, I do like the the practical "have a go" approach that the other more aspirational magazines lack and always look forward to the latest issue.

I sometimes buy Classic Car Weekly and Monthly. However, I occassionally get Classic CarMart - although this magazine is centered around buying, they often have excellent features on some of the less popular or commonly featured classics (including pre-war) and cars that were truly innovative. For example, I really enjoyed the July article on the Citroen DS.

Perhaps one problem that a lot of these magazines share is keeping their readership which I would suggest ultimately depends on attracting younger readers. I suspect this is a real challenge as most younger folk but new or nearly new cars these days and don't get the forced introduction to car maintenenace that previous generations undertook just to get keep their daily driver on the road. Perhaps this is why so many monthly magazines feature professionally restored/maintained cars rather than concentrating on the oily bits. At least Practical Classics still does this and that's why I like it so much. :D :D
 
also have a subscription and yes they give a free gift when you take this option out.
last year it was renewed without asking so i rang up and asked for the free gift and duely got it!
this year i shall do the same or stop my subscription and re- start it!
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That's what I need to do .I'll wait till the free gift is something I want .The 3/8" drive torque wrench seems OK
 
Watch out for my old girl in the October issue
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The old girl is looking v smart Brian.

I like PC as it talks at my level. Some of the other classic mags are aimed at people who like to look at cars, whereas PC is a mag for people who like to work on their cars.

Dave
 
Cheers Dave,

We had a great time in Doncaster on the photo shoot, and the photos the professional does are so so so brilliant

Bit of luck I'll get the DVD of photos this week, hoping to get one or two in the P6News :D Not often you get to have photos done professionally.

Bri.
 
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