van nationals

[mauser]

They refuse to recognise their roots.

Mauser

[simopar]

Hi all,

I just wanted to clear up any confusion in regards to this. The Spit n Polish events section relies on organisers to provide the info (as per the column header) as part of whatever media stuff they are doing for their event so it may be worth asking the Nationals organisers if they submitted it.

It is to make sure that the info is accurate, as I'm sure everyone would be spewing if we published an event but got the dates or info wrong. I appreciate that its run every Easter, but the place/State changes every year so it's not really the same info each time, so needs to be updated by the Organisers for each year.

The Van Nats have been featured a number of times over the years so if it can be attended by the mag then it will be featured.

They refuse to recognise their roots.

Mauser

Honestly I don't think you could be any further from the truth; there has been more Van coverage in the last 2 or 3 years than in probably the last decade, and the Editorial staff are Van fans anyway. There's been plenty of recent Time Machine stuff and van related stories like Legends and vans pictured in events. As mentioned by Karl, we had a Van Wheels retrospective in the 30th anniversary special that easily equaled the AHRR retrospective.

There's plenty of more van stuff on the way but the biggest problem we have is getting decent and clear photos to use from back in the heyday, so if anyone can help please let me know.

Hope this clears up any confusion or myths about what happened with all of this.

Thanks

Simon Major