Remember when… 25 years ago

We’re not going as far back into our archives as we usually do this month because I thought it would be fun this time around to see what was happening exactly 25 years ago.

In this issue, from May 1997, Tim Baggaley was in the chair and in his editorial took aim at ‘traditional’ hot rods – not the cars themselves, but those referring to cars with coilovers, radial tyres, urethane bushes etc. as traditional. Most notably the hot rod press.

“I don’t actually have anything against radial tyres…" he stated, "What concerns me is this increasing indifference to modern technology on supposedly traditional cars and, presumably, ignorance of what constitutes appropriate period