Remember when…
In the spirit of remembrance, off the back of the feature on the rebuild of Jason Forrester’s Mk1 Consul, we thought we’d journey back to the Kev Elliott period in Custom Car’s history, a time when the thorny subject of PT Cruisers reared its front-wheel drive head.
We’ve deliberately chosen the issue that sat between the two that had PTs on the cover because, well, it’s March and we always choose the Remember when… issues to coincide with the month to a wider audience, as his editorial this month explained, but also yearned for people to modify them in the style of the Hauser Race Cars / Paul Marston Racing / DaimlerChrysler drag car that would be front and centre on the April 2001 issue. To the best of our knowledge, nobody did though, at least not in the UK, and while the cars still have a small but dedicated following, they have not been picked up as the basis for radical customs – at least not of the V8-powered, rear-wheel drive kind Kev hoped for.
