INCOMING!
Summat to say? Send your comments, hints, tips, tales of woe and derring-don’t to: RCHQ@RealClassic.net
THRILLING STUFF
Canada calling. Signing up to a RealClassic subscription two months ago was the best thing I ever did. My copies regularly arrive now so there’s no more poaching magazines from my friends. Digressing away from two wheels, restorations, rescues, trials and tribulations of the two wheel world, I wondered if Frank knew of his alter ego. I am an avid reader and picked up ‘The Shout’ by Stephen Leather. The book’s theme is about fires and murder, and getting into the second chapter the reader is introduced to Frank Westworth, crew manager of a London Fire brigade pumper. I wondered if Mr Leather might be a rider and fan of Frank’s, and put him in a heroic role?
Tony Cording, member
Stephen is a great writer, and is also friendly and helpful to amateurs in the same field – even to the extent of including his distant pals as characters in his own books. Someone sharing my name also appeared as an electrician and a something else... Fiction indeed! Frank W
THE MISSING MISSIVE
My copy of RealClassic thudded through my letter box a couple of days ago (I like a reassuring thud), but upon tearing open the outer wrapping in my normal excited manner, I discovered to my horror that the single page that shows my address on one side and the always entertaining / provoking / amusing (delete as required) missive was missing – a blank page confronted my unbelieving eyes.
Is this just my copy (if so, what have I done to offend you?), or a hiccup of this month’s edition or, more worryingly, a sign of things to come and that this most entertaining aspect of your most illustrious publication is no more?
I need to know, the suspense is killing me!
Neil Pattemore, member 4364
I’d love to explain how last month’s muck-up happened, but it remains a mystery. I wrote and sent the subscriber newsletter as usual, but somehow some readers like Neil received nothing. Even odder, some other folk
