What will 2022 bring the American car community? Hopefully some great weather, lots of car shows and conditions that will enable us to enjoy our vehicles to their full potential. Sometimes it can feel a bit doom and gloom with all the anti-car legislation flying around, fortunately however, classic cars seem (so far at least) to have escaped the attention of the anti-car legislators.
And in reality, that’s understandable, we represent a fraction of the vehicles on the road. Will road pricing become a reality?
That seems distinctly possible, as electric vehicle sales surge and the revenue from fuel duties start to dwindle – if that is the case, then I’d hope our vehicles will be exempt from that also. Imagine having to retrofit some sort of battery-draining tracking device to your classic American vehicle for a mere few hundred or thousand miles a year.
The past couple of years have been challenging to everyone for obvious reasons, but even the lockdowns have had silver linings, like enabling car owners to steam ahead with restorations at breakneck pace, because quite simply, there was nothing else to do! Would we be enjoying Andy Bennett’s stunning 1965 Buick Wildcat on these pages had he not had two lockdowns in which to complete it? Probably not. Here’s to a happy, productive and prosperous 2022 to us all.

Ben Klemenzson, editor
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• Drive! – Issue 391 – March 2022
• Bella UK – 25 January 2022