Hot Car magazine - January 1973
The cover of my original copy fell to bits so long ago I'd forgotten what it looked like Today I received in the post a copy of the first ever car magazine I bought. I was nine and a half years old and it made a significant impression on me. I bought it with my Christmas money and got the February edition, too, but by then I'd ran out of cash as my pocket money back then was five new pence. I proceeded to read both these issues of Hot Car until they literally fell apart. So getting my scuffed fingers on a replacement issue of my first ever car mag has been a real trip down memory lane. Pictures like these kept me drawing for years It was the article about the grass track banger racing that really caught my imagination. Here were every day saloons, just like my parents' car, being used in competition. I was hooked and the following summer my father took me to see the 1973 World Banger Championships at the Cornish Stadium at St Austell. I was 10 and it was my ...