Practical Classics Subscription

[Jefftav]

Nothing to do with me and I don't work for the Bauer, I just thought this was quite a good offer considering the cover price is £4.20. Practical Classics are doing an offer of 26magazines (so 2 yrs) for £50 if you pay up front. http://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/practical is the web site and if you can't do it this way then the phone number is 0845 601 2672 code HWAA or +441858438828 for overseas callers.

PC has some new staff and is a better read than is used to be.

[irmscher]

you can read it in tesco free in ten minutes way too many adverts

[chickenjohn]

I went off practical classics years ago when the proper classic car enthusiasts were booted off in favor of modifiers and lovers of bizzare and not very good eastern european cars. As above can read in supermarket for free!

Once I learned how to weld years ago, I realised how poor the restoration articles and "how to" guides were in PC.

[chrisd87]

I still buy Practical Classics now and then, although these days I'll tend to check to see what articles are in it before buying, instead of being an automatic purchase. It has got better recently, but then again it's still not as good as it was when I first started reading it in 2003.

Agreed that there seems to have been too much emphasis on the likes of lowered 80s BMWs with big alloy wheels and drainpipe exhausts. That said the features about bizarre not very good eastern-bloc cars (and Sam Glover's crazy road trips) are amongst my favourites . I'm also less of a fan of the current approach of having a number of projects on the go at once, as things become bitty and seem to get covered in less detail than when they used to buy one car, restore it, then do another, etc.

I suspect it's the same with many magazine articles, but if you know a lot about a particular subject then you do notice errors creeping in. I was a bit surprised that in the article about 4-seater convertibles in the August issue, the Minor's fuel economy is listed as 32mpg. This is hopelessly poor for a standard car, so I'm not quite sure where they got the figure from! Otherwise the information given was all accurate, though.

[daveyl]

I very much like reading PC and always look forward to it. I count my blessings that I'm able to afford £4.80 every four weeks.

[stag36587]

just my preferences I guess but I no longer buy PC automatically either so I'mmexperimenting with a couple of others. I think PC used to cover restorations in better detail, particularly technically, and I can't stand the crew's weak attempts at being "characters". I guess they are trying to appeal to a younger audience but I'd rather they just let the cars do the talking. Having said that, most other mags have the same issues...

[youngcamper]

*Shameless Plug/on* Classics monthly is much better, they have this young chap called Will in the Drivers Diary section. Hes doing up this Morris minor. *Shameless Plug/off*

Seriously pick it up, you'd have 70p spare for a mars bar .


Will

[stag36587]

Yes indeed. I bought Classics monthly this month and enjoyed a mars bar with a cup of mechanics' tea. I came across some young guy called Will doing up a Morris Minor and it was good to see he's been facing the same challenges as me

[IaininTenbury]

I'd say Classics Monthly probably is now a better mag than PC, again it depends on any personal interests in any given issue.
and with all specialist articles, written by journalists who have a limited time to do the feature and research the article theres always mistakes to be found by the experts who are reading it!
The 'how to use tinsnips' in the last issue was a bit of a gaff. In the pictures shown they were using them in the wrong direction and it looked quite awkward! Still a good mag tho