Classics Monthly

PHIL WHITE

BIO: Phil White’s first job, at 15, involved restoring classic cars. A decade later he began writing about them in magazines. 35 years on, he’s still at it. He plans to grow up at some point, but in the meantime climbing rocks, running, cycling and, you know, writing about classic cars, seem to get in the way.

Afew days ago I took my latest vehicle for its maiden voyage. In a 90-minute trip I did a couple of miles, taking a route that, viewed later on a GPS device, would look rather like a figure-of-eight drawn like by palsied spider on crack. By the end of this journey,

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