17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1970 ROVER P5B
The car was standard issue for cabinet ministers and prime ministers and indeed the Government Car Service must have been more than wary of Jaguar’s new XJ saloons since it bought and stored the final…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1971 DAIMLER SOVEREIGN
It didn’t come without a price though; its massive development costs led Jaguar founder William Lyons to merge his company with BMH in order to get access to the funds necessary to put the XJ…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1984 MERCEDES-BENZ 230E
It has been known in classic circles for some time now that the W123 E Class is a phenomenal machine, which represents the apex of Mercedes-Benz build quality, durability and mechanical expertise. A slightly unfair…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1981 VAUXHALL CAVALIER 2000
The Opel Ascona B provided the foundation for the UK’s badge-engineered Escort contender, albeit with a different ‘drooping’ snout designed by Wayne Cherry. The original Ascona A (Viva over here) had competed very well against…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1975 BENTLEY T1
The T1 was launched in 1956 as a Bentley-badged version of the totally redesigned Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, the company’s first unitary-built model. Apart from a different style grille, the Bentley version is identified by a…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1929 AUSTIN SEVEN
The Seven was very much a product of Austin the man rather than Austin the company: In the immediate post-First World War period Austin – by then a public company – needed something other than…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1961 VAUXHALL PA CRESTA
By the mid-‘Fifties these two quasi-British brands were almost meeting in the middle, but you only have to compare the PA Cresta with a Ford Zephyr to see that the target buyers still moved in…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1969 SINGER CHAMOIS
Of course Rootes was no stranger to badge engineering and like BMC it had a whole catalogue of brands it could slap onto the Imp. The first was a Singer version and as was expected…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1971 VOLKSWAGEN CABRIOLET
Manufactured by German coachbuilder Karmann (these days itself a part of the Volkswagen group), the Beetle Cabriolet (it was always ‘cabriolet’ rather than convertible) was about as far from being a simple roof chop as…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1958 FORD ANGLIA 100E
Launched in 1953, the 100E was a replacement for the upright-looking E494 Anglia, which was essentially derived from a pre-war design and by the late ’Forties was looking desperately old-fashioned – especially next to Ford’s…
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17th February 2017
ROAD TEST – 1981 FORD FIESTA SUPERSPORT
Developed by Ford’s Special Vehicle Engineering team at Dunton, the Supersport was a toe-in-the-water exercise to test demand for a sporty small hatchback and as history has since shown, the idea proved to be a…
