[Healeys] Should I Tell Them?

[Jack Feldman]

I love Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car. I enjoy every issue. Unfortunately,
the sometimes seem as accurate of the History Channel. If you have seen the
History Channel's  hour on the Austin Healey you know what I mean.

I was tempted to write them before when they had a suggestion for rewiring
lights with relays. The circuit made no sense.

In this issue there are two items that they seem to have no clue about. One
is in the picture of a Morgan dash showing all the insturments plus two
jacks and they claim they don't know what purpose the jacks serve. The
picture is on page 44 of the December issue. The jacks are  colored red and
black. I always thought those jacks on the older cars were a power take off
like the cigarette lighter jacks we use in modern cars. I also remember
seeing an ancient trouble light with plugs to fit jacks like that. Am I
correct?

The second is on page 88 where they identify the Sunbeam used in *To Catch A
Thief* as an Alpine. I remember a program on PBS the History Detectives in
which a man thought his Sunbeam *Talbot* was the car used in the movie.
After some searching they cam up with the actual production records which
listed the VIN of the car that was used. It wasn't his. Do I remember
correctly?

Yours for more accuracy in magazines.

Jack