Classic Car Mart Magazine Vol.21 No.1 Lotus Elise Back Issue

It’s generally the hallmark of a
successful enterprise that it rarely
rests on its laurels and we’ve seen
a few changes this month at Kelsey
Media, the company which brings
you Classic Car Mart every month. All of
them good I should point out and most
relevant to us here being the acquisition
of fellow classic car title Classics Monthly
which tackles more of the practical side of
old car ownership rather than the buying
and selling which we major on here.
With the title comes Matt George, the
new face pictured below who joins CCM as
Managing Editor and gets my vote already
by virtue of owning a ’68 Beetle. What you
can’t see in the photo is the Morris Minor
driver’s seat he’s perched precariously
on for the photograph, a legacy of a
part-finished restoration project for the
magazine which we now need to piece back
together.
If you’ve ever completely stripped down
a car to a bare shell then you’ll know what
a daunting prospect it can be to get it all
back together and having got stuck in
already, I can confirm that it’s even harder
when somebody else has done the taking
apart. Luckily, I’ve got sufficiently involved
in Morris Minor features over the
past few months to recognise
where the bits go, while the
knowledge gained during teenage
years messing about with a Minorowning
mate has finally come in
useful. Except of course that this
particular Minor is a Traveller
and with the replacement rear
woodwork yet to be fitted, we
need to work out how to transport
the freshly painted roof panel the
50 miles from bodyshop to
workshop without any means of
fixing it to the rest of the car...