Or nightmares!

Dear Classic American,

I have to agree with Kevin Foreman in his letter published in the January issue of Classic American. I do not pay my annual subscription to read about techno cars, which hold no attraction for me whatsoever. In fact, reading any publication about this form of energy, which was already disregarded 100 years ago, makes my blood boil! To think that we have spent over 100 years developing the combustion engine, culminating in a lean green machine and are now throwing all that development and knowledge into the bin, beggars belief. I think the real picture will show inadequate infrastructure, practical charging issues, to say nothing of the pollution caused by toxic metals used in batteries both in manufacture and end of life. Also, not forgetting the fact that even without EVs we currently are destined for a power shortage in the UK, due to no new power stations being built to replace the rapidly decommissioned fossil fuel stations. We should be talking about better options such as hydrogen cells, where we could keep our welldeveloped combustion engines and not have all these other issues.

Please forgive my rambling, but going back to CA’s reply to Mr Foreman’s letter, I don’t believe that we are burying our heads in the sand; it’s simply that in our enjoyment of reading about classic cars, we don’t want to read about something completely different! We don’t mind them being mentioned, but please, no articles on this depressing subject!

Steve Storey Worcestershire

You raise many interesting points in your communication Steve and no doubt many readers will agree with you. We don’t intend to fill the magazine with features on electric cars; however, there are some pretty cool electrically powered resto-mods knocking around like the electric ICON ‘Derelict’ Noiresque 1949 Hudson we featured a few years back. Surely you’d make an exception for a remarkable vehicle like that, wouldn’t you?!