Back in the late 1980s, Gilltraps Museum was closing down on the Gold Coast, so they had an auction of all their memorabilia. There were piles and piles of old British Motor magazines dating back to 1948. Not one single bid for a collection that they wanted about $500 for. After the auction I asked them if they'd accept $100 for it. The reply was so quick - a resounding'YES!' My company VL Commodore was on its bump stops all the way home; you couldn't have fitted a cigarette paper in there. When I got home and sorted them out, the collection actually started in 1912 with a sporadic run though the '20s and '30s to an uninterrupted run from 1948 to the early '60s. The very early stuff is actually hard reading, with an almost different language to ours, not helped by the way the magazines have dried out so much that its like a shower of brown confetti whenever they're picked up. They took up so much room so I bit the bullet, cut out the best ads and most of the more interesting articles.They're in separate binders taking up only about a tenth of the space. For a couple of weeks, nearly every recycling bin in my street was full of paper...