Classic Car this month - Griff feature

[R3UMP]

Just picked up a copy of Classic Car - 500 birthday issue - lovely 6 page feature on the Griffith 500, yet to read it, can't wait for a quiet few moments to ponder this feature - Happy Birthday CC

[ToneyCaroney]

IPorsche owning reader gets to drive a Griffith for the first time on damp roads at 1 degrees C! Both him and the staff writer are scared stless of it but come away with big grins on their faces

It's a good read!

[5.0ltr]

There was a request for a car on TVRCC for a mag feature. Was interested until I found out someone else was going to drive it. Very glad now I didn't hearing this.

[neutral 3]

I've just read it too......that steering wheel....that wood dash.....those dodgy number plates....

[ToneyCaroney]

neutral 3 said:

I've just read it too......that steering wheel....that wood dash.....those dodgy number plates....

This also is true....

[Shezbo]

Dam - this "feature" will have ramped the price up another notch......

[neutral 3]

But will it have £ ramped it up ?? Why Classic Cars chose a " Blinged " up Griff instead of something harder / more original looking is beyond me, perhaps no one else wanted to lend their car ?
That hideous steering wheel aaargh, quick pass the sick bag !! it's the type of thing you would see in a dodgy old XJ or Range Rover...

Yet Another missed opertunity to promote the Griff !!
And why not feature it in the Summer when the performance would have been far easier to exploit ??

[5.0ltr]

neutral 3 said:

Yet Another missed opertunity to promote the Griff !!
And why not feature it in the Summer when the performance would have been far easier to exploit ??

Because you have fallen into their trap of thinking journalists have intelligence!

[330p4]

As above I was contacted for this feature std 500 owned from new until I found out it was a reader drive in October or November the car is not replaceable so declined. Was it a dealer car they used in the end
Ian

[neutral 3]

Dealer car, but then so is mine.

I've just stood in Sains and re read this article and good grief it's absolutely b dire, drivel and waffle. Ok, so it's Great that the Griff is featured in a mag ( and on the cover ) but it could have been waaaaaay better written.
The critisism of the roof and the boot lid hinges etc particularly grates.

My Late ( Petrol head / 3 Litre Capri / E Type then Maserati Ghibli owning ) Dad used to buy me some of the first issues of Classic car magazine way back in 1973 and 74, it was a fantastic read back in the seventies and early 80s, with writers of the calibre of Michael Bowler, Johnathan Wood and Paul Skilleter ( and the very quick amatuer BMW racer Roger Bell I think ) but it just kept going downhill.