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17th February 2017
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,…
17th February 2017
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…
17th February 2017
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…
17th February 2017
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…
17th February 2017
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…
17th February 2017
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…
17th February 2017
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…
17th February 2017
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…
17th February 2017
Visiting Joe’s premises is a treat for anyone immersed in the hobby of messing about with old cars: In addition to acres of three-wheeler Reliants we found ourselves tripping over rarer Reliant products, including the…
17th February 2017
The sole example I’ve driven (a late 340 – I’ve actually driven more Daimler 250s than ‘real’ Jaguar MkIIs) was very enjoyable but, personally, I had to keep putting myself in the shoes of someone…
17th February 2017
In the wake of the 1973 Fuel Crisis, and in response to customer feedback, Ford decided to make the Capri a more practical daily driving propostion. Although the same length overall as the MkI, the…
