The Healey Elliott – its name referencing Samuel Elliott & Sons, whose streamlined aluminium bodies graced each car – ...

From rebuilding Lancia Aurelias in a home garage in the 1990s to a packed unit on an industrial park near Zandvoort, the ...

In fact, he was known to reserve the least affection of all for the SP250 Dart, a model that had already bombed embarrassingly (and expensively) in the North American market for which it was intended.

Roesch had originally been brought in to create a new car, but his advanced A12 proposal was dropped when in 1919 Talbot was acquired by the French-based – but British-owned – Darracq. Roesch, ...

Although a little confusing at first, this is an elegant package and much more accomplished than other unceremoniously shortened DSs – or even the Chapron coupés, which share the standard wheelbase, ...

Yet by 1951, car production had peaked. Tellingly, the original, mostly steel-panelled 1947-’50 400 was the most prolific of the early Bristols, with 700 built, followed closely by the 401 and 403.

It may be a lame facsimile of the missions this rare and special Land-Rover – correct designation: Trucks ¼ Ton 4x4 General Service SAS Rover Mk3 – undertook more than half a century ago, but it ...

But I’m right about a few things. The engineers and designers were hugely talented and enthusiastic and, above all, able to work very quickly with very limited resources. The result of the quickfire ...

Today, most in Britain are Japanese Domestic Market imports. JDM cars had smaller turbos and injectors, and less cam lift, so were not quite as powerful, at 276bhp. Japan and the USA also got ...

At the height of the 2020 COVID shutdown, my attention turned to the online auction sites. Datsun Zs had become a staple on Bring a Trailer, often nut-and-bolt rebuilds or low-mileage time capsules.

The Montego Blue paintwork of the 1992 Mazda RX-7 that’s going to transport us 1000 miles into the north looks almost black ...

With VW committed to the concept of a front, transverse engine and front-wheel-drive platform (it had already acquired an early Fiat 128 and taken it back to component form for inspiration), ...