Vintage Minor Register

Just before Christmas, I was tracking down a Minor that turns up occasionally at the New Forest pub meet. I got in touch with the organizer, Dean Reader who put me on to the owner. It turns out that Dean is a freelance motoring writer and he is working on an article on Minor vans for a commercial vehicle publication. He asked me if I could help. I trawled through the archives and found several articles on Minor vans that have been published in past VMR Magazines and sent them to him, along with a number of photos. He asked for further data including production information, etc. and I told him that I would get back to him with more as soon I could.

This morning I received the following from Dean:

"Hi
Ok I get the message. Unless you come back with a bonafide reason, then I am presuming that you, and representing your club are not going to help me. Not a very good advert for your club is it?
Dean"

Right now I'm trying to get the January Newsletter out, write M 149 and get the summer rallies organized. Since I'm a bit pushed for time, perhaps one of you could draft me a suitable reply to send to Dean?

My initial reaction would be to tell him to get knotted and he should not to publish any of the information that was previously sent to him.

Ian, this Dean does seem to be a rather discourteous person - maybe under pressure of publishing deadlines!!
What exactly is the help that is needed to produce production information?
If it is looking through the genome or something simple then I could do that, but I have broadly similar sentiments to sv4670.

Hello Ian,

I rather doubt that this person would be an asset to the VMR so my sugestion would be to ignore his answer and not sent him a reply.

Halbe

Ian,
My feeling is that Dean would not be the sort of person that VMR would wish to deal with, especially with valuable VMR material.
I suspect VMR would not have any control on what he decides to publish.
mike