When architectural photographer Daniel Hopkinson and architect John Piercy Holroyd both arrived for an assignment in Alfa Romeo 159s, the pair discovered a mutual passion for old cars and Modernist ...
“As well as driving them to work, we go out at weekends with family and friends. I always look forward to the National Austin 7 Rally at Beaulieu, which is in its 59th year. We take three cars and ...
Just over a year later, three of the latest RS model, the P7b 20M RS, were entered into the London-Sydney Marathon rally. Two completed the event, the highest of them placing seventh in a competition ...
In this pre-Mini Britain of 40bhp, 70mph family cars that offered lots of value for money but not much joy, it could be argued that the complacent monoliths of BMC, Ford and Rootes were too ...
The process started in 2010 and, inevitably, the rot was worse than it first appeared. A lot of new metal was needed, including floors, rear quarters, inner rear arches, one complete rear wing and ...
Under the bonnet, the final development of WO Bentley’s handsome overhead-cam, twin-plug ‘four’ was tuned with a lightened flywheel, increased 6.3:1 compression, drilled valve-spring caps, lighter ...
Plus, it didn’t take a genius to realise that the bolted-together punt would cost substantially more than a pressed-steel structure, and would leave any maker dependent on France’s monopoly aluminium ...
Heynes’ original idea for the XJ project in the early ’60s was to create a four-door, four-seat E-type, a low-slung sports saloon that would take the fight to the Europeans in the ’70s and recapture ...
“The last time I drove this car was 29 June 1968,” the septuagenarian smiles. “I was 26 then. I had left on Thursday, on Friday we prepared the car with the cameras, we filmed all day Saturday, then ...