Does anyone know what's happened to NZ Classic Driver Magazine! There's been nothing since the Feb/March issue. Great mag IMHO, like what NZ Classic Car mag used to be like before the change in format, doesn't seem to be much in it these days. We also used to get Australian Classic Car which was a good mag too.
fair_lane,
May 2, 5:42am
Just been sold to the Simply Classics guy , new issue out soon
bluecambridge,
May 2, 10:57am
Thanks fair_lane, hope they don't change the mag too much, I like it just as it is
poppajn,
May 2, 11:12am
A great magazine, but could,nt help but notice a change in the last edition, a little less focus on the classic it seemed.
rsr72,
May 2, 12:25pm
Hope it doesn't lose focus since Alan Dick sold it and has retired, down to Timaru, I think. He is still acting as an editor, but no idea for how long. His vastknowledge and experienced input is vital for the continuing success of the magazine.
geedubu,
May 2, 12:57pm
Best part of the magazine is Allan Dick's smoking a grey pipe column - hope he keeps that going too.
johnf_456,
May 2, 1:25pm
It is now by the simply classics guy but I have not read the whole thread.
bluecambridge,
May 2, 1:40pm
So long as it doesn't end up like Classic Car Mag - not much in it these days.
poppajn,
May 2, 2:13pm
Yup, Ihave to agree, the ClassicCar is not worth buying, very few classic,s in it. As for Classic Driver, yes "Smoking the Grey Pipe" and ' Under the Hedges" is good. Allan,s liveing in Oamaru.
vjregal770,
May 2, 3:32pm
Sorry, but Alan Dick is an insufferable, arrogant, pretentious, xenophobic clueless tosser. Almost as bad as the Dog & Lemon halfwit.
In short - A. Dick.
vjregal770,
May 2, 3:34pm
I agree that NZ Classic Car seems to be losing the plot though.
franc123,
May 2, 3:46pm
Losing!Lost it years ago more likely, I stopped reading it when they went from B&W to colour and the DIY guys that had done up Mk1 Cortinas, '38 Chevs, EJ Holdens and Mini Coopers on tightish budgets over many yearswere displaced by the sexually indeterminate clean hand brigade that had done "chequebook restorations" on E type Jags, Porsches and Ferraris within 18 months and possibly not even wielded the screws to fit the fancy number plate on, and also the pages of advertising by said outfits more than happy to receive the cheques outnumbered the articles on repair and resto techniques.
jmma,
May 2, 3:52pm
Yeah right, time for a Tui
toyboy3,
May 2, 3:52pm
I was having a read of classic cars magazine at the library in the supermarket today and thought it is not like it used be, no swap meet listings in coming events
vjregal770,
May 2, 6:23pm
Fair enough. I stopped getting NZCC myself several years ago now and it's only within the last 12 months we've been getting it at work, so I there's a big gap in my readership.
But it gave me the strong impression that only the chequebook set are good enough these days. I used to like the Everyday Classic section.
(I could say the same thing about NZ Hot Rod too come to think of it.)
big.b-lil.c,
May 2, 6:55pm
dont be sorry you are right
rsr72,
May 2, 7:31pm
Methinks one or two here are not exactly Classic Driver Magazine's target market.
poppajn,
May 8, 3:14pm
Damn book,s still not on the shelves
woody1946,
May 8, 3:20pm
Yeah, bit slack I reckon. How will those who have paid a subscription feel !
elect70,
May 9, 10:16am
Buy it occasionally & Driver before Autocar took over . that mag has gone sterile ,no more humorousorinformativecolumnsjust lots of glossy ads . NZ CC lost it when it started putting up new cars as classic ,. have to resort to Aussie mags .
woodsy2,
May 9, 4:03pm
I have every issue of Classic Driver. Hope it stays much the same.
johnf_456,
Jan 30, 9:53pm
Proof! What I hear from the local car club is different! But I 'm too lazy to research it now.
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