8th June 2017
1976 BMW 2002 on Jay Leno’s Garage
Marc Norris, the founder of the Bavarian Workshop, stops by the Jay Leno’s garage with a 1976 BMW 2002.
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23rd May 2017
WHAT’S THE BEST TAX AND MOT FREE DAILY CLASSIC CAR?
Buy a car built before 1960 and you won’t be worrying about MoT tests, never mind paying for Vehicle Excise Duty. And if the daily commute is a local one, your classic could even become…
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23rd May 2017
EMERGING CLASSIC – BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT
The upmarket Volkswagen which emerged from the struggle between two German makers for control of an iconic British brand. I was stuck in traffic earlier this month and idly studying the cars surrounding me, I…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1978 VOLKSWAGEN TYPE 2
Of course that’s actually a fairly recent phenomemon. There weren’t many VW campers chugging around British roads in the ‘Sixties, and very few of those that did make it over here were used for festival-going,…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1980 FORD ESCORT 1100L
In the late ‘Seventies Ford Escorts were certainly everywhere but it was the humdrum Kent-engined, flat-painted, skinny-tyred versions that were on every British street. Just like this beige two-door 1100L in fact – almost certainly…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1968 TRIUMPH TR5
Both the Healey and the TR started life as rather simpler cars, both being powered by four-cylinder engines taken from mundane saloon cars and both built on a simple separate chassis. Just as the Healey…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1974 FORD CAPRI 3000
Of course this is all in my head and every time I actually get behind the wheel of a classic Ford I end up enjoying the driving experience precisely because they’re just so well-judged and…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1983 FERRARI 308 GTS
I’m betting that at some point in your life as a car fancier you’ve probably pinned, tacked or taped a poster depicting something sexy, red and Italian to your bedroom wall. Chances are that the…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – MKIV FORD ESCORT
There was an excellent indication of what a sea-change the MkIII Ford Escort was at a recent show. On the corner of a stall was an old Autobooks workshop manual. On the cover it proclaimed itself…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1977 MINI 1000
British Leyland immediately began a programme of rationalisation, which resulted in the MkIII Mini of 1968. The sliding windows were upgraded to winding ones, although this meant that the hollow doors with the famous gin-carrying…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1976 BMW 2002 TII ALPINA REPLICA
The story goes that two senior BMW executives had the two-litre engine separately fitted to their company-issue 1602s and were so impressed by the extra pace given by the 100bhp M10 unit that they approached…
