Classic Cars

Valentine’s Day And Classic Car/Bike Owners

February 11, 2010

A recent survey (conducted entirely at the 2009 NEC Classic Motor Show, by Footman James) has shown that almost half of classic car owners would rather spend time with their beloved set of classic wheels than the other half. Does James May come to mind there? Joking aside, for some this is a passion that [...]

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Who Won The Top Award At Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance?

September 1, 2009

A true car fan appreciates the classics – and they don’t come much better than this exquisite 1937 Horch 853 Voll & Ruhrbeck Sport Cabriolet, owned by an American private collector. It was named “Best of Show” at the 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance along the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links® on August [...]

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A Motorbike Is Like An Old TVR…

July 18, 2009

Or rather, driving any older, powerful sports car is quite like riding a motorbike. What do I mean by that? Power The deliver of power on a motorbike can be quite savage – much like the 4-5 litre V8s that appear in many older sports cars. Both need power meeted out in a sensible way [...]

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What Happens To The Old Cars?

May 14, 2009

The government’s scrappage scheme is good news for 300,000 or so people.  Well, supposedly good news.  They get money off a new car, so that their old scrapper takes the final journey it will ever make.  There it’ll probably lie rusted, dead and at the bottom of a pile of a bunch of other (likely [...]

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The Marcos TSO

January 3, 2009

It may come as no great surprise if you haven’t seen a Marcos car before.  It may have an illustrious history but was quiet for some years.  A couple of years ago saw the release of some new models, including the Marcos TSO – a real alernative to the many sanitised two seaters out there [...]

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Hillmans Are Forever

June 27, 2008

One of the things that I love to see is a nice happy story about cars in the papers.  Too often you get some sulky journalist whinging about how vehicles are killing they environment, killing children or just generally being the scourge of the Earth.  However, these same people probably climb into their 20MPG Aston [...]

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MINI – Why Not?

April 3, 2008

Apparently, the best thing to buy these days is a Mini.  Why is that, I hear you ask?  Well, very simple.  The Mini is the most popular car on the social networking site Facebook.  I guess they found that out through one of their scientific surveys of course.  Well, there’s 24,000 members of Mini Cooper [...]

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The Porsche 911 is the eighties icon

March 31, 2008

Despite what we maybe seeing on TV, it seems for those people who are old enough the Porsche 911 is the iconic cars of the eighties and the Audi Quattro which has had a nice bit of publicity on the hit TV show Ashes to Ashes came in a close second. Out of all the [...]

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Lotus celebrates sixty years of innovation

March 26, 2008

It’s amazing to think that it was way back in 1948 when Colin Chapman built the first Lotus racing car, his talent was so, that he could only be considered to be a pioneer in automotive engineering, this has been proved with the Lotus Formula One team which had such success for many seasons. It [...]

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