It seems that everyone had a Mini in the 1970s. That was simply the default choice. One of the great things about having friends and colleagues roughly the same age as you is that you remember much the same stuff, and your parents more than likely ha

Nobody who has seen a GordonKeeble, or even a decent photograph of one, would forget it because this was an exceptionally beautiful design. Nobody who has ever driven a GordonKeeble would forget it either because it was superbly fast and agile. How t

Endorsed by Steve McQueen no less, motoring pundits universally loved the Puma at launch in 1997, with road testers raving about its New Edge styling and impressive driving dynamics. Built exclusively at Ford’s Niehl plant in Cologne, it didn’t seem

You really won’t pay much for a Puma. In fact, as little as a grand will be enough if you want a rolling project. If you’re looking for something in top nick, then £3000£4000 is a realistic starting point. When we looked, we saw a 1.7 Millennium with

MG started out as a private holding of William Morris (later Lord Nuffield), and MG’s Managing Director Cecil Kimber enjoyed considerable freedom in how the company was run. As well as some seriously large and luxurious tourers, this helped create a

In the early 1960s my main interest was in two wheeled transport, but family reasons meant I needed to search for a car. With little mechanical knowledge and even less money, a scan of the classified ads in the Kent Messenger produced a possibility.

If you’ve dreamed of owning a 911, this is the time to buy because you can snap up a 996 for the price of a packet of crisps. OK, not quite – but seriously, prices are rock bottom right now with £10,000 being a not too unrealistic starting price for

The opening of the County Classics Museum came amid great fanfare. Taunton council agreed to close North Street to allow lots of local classic car lovers to park up in front of the museum, while a large cadre of press arrived to cover the event and c

Over the years we’ve brought you numerous stories of old cars that turned out to be far more rusty than their owners realised initially. Cars without floors, sills made of filler and newspaper, rotten A-posts and nonexistent suspension mounts. So it’

The Cavalier evolved at a desperate time for Vauxhall. By 1973, following serious problems with the Viva HC, General Motors decreed Vauxhall would no longer export vehicles to Canada, their principal overseas territory. Sales in other countries and a

GOT A STORY TO SHARE? EMAIL IT TO CLASSICS.ED@KELSEY.CO.UK OR POST IT TO CLASSICS WORLD NEWSDESK, KELSEY MEDIA, THE GRANARY, DOWNS COURT, YALDING HILL, YALDING ME18 6AL Almost three years since the office of Herbert Austin was painstakingly packaged

As usual, the April issue of CW had a remarkably varied range of subjects. Sam Skelton’s feature on the Leyland Princess took me back some 47 years to when, after a series of four Landcrabs, my father was given what turned out to be his last company

FLYING SPUR PROJECT PART 6 If all goes according to plan, this should be the final instalment of our Bentley Continental project. Since my last report, the main issues to be dealt with have been the cracked windscreen and the looming MoT. In some way

It’s amazing the bits you can get for old cars. In some cases, MGBs for instance, you can even buy a brand new bodyshell for goodness sake. But at the other end of the scale, some parts just aren’t available, no matter how big your wallet is. Looking

Some people say that you are so much busier when you retire than you ever were when you were working. Well, I’m not so sure about that as I'm working hard and I often don’t have enough hours in the day, but I guess they just mean that you are much bu

The Continentals use air suspension all round, and one thing we’ve always noticed with our Flying Spur is that it seems a little nose-down in attitude. Although this imparts a rakish stance, I’ve never been sure it’s quite right. Research reveals tha

This is not a serious headto-head battle where we are hoping to analyse our two chariots in minute detail and decide forensically which is the better car. Such an exercise would quite clearly be pointless, not least because some 35 years separate the

NOT JUST ANY CAR WWW.CARCOVERS.INFO ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW NOT JUST ANY COVER The Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show attracted 26,912 attendees to the NEC in Birmingham over the weekend of 22nd-24th March, almost exactly the same number

I've been following your Fiat 500 restoration and it has reminded me of my little Giardiniera mentioned in my letter in the March issue. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of that. Looking back now, I'm sure I could have made an effort to repair the

This is the cover of a Swedish-market brochure issued in August 1964, so the engine fitted is a three-cylinder, two-stroke 841cc unit. Even though we can't read a word of Swedish, we can deduce from the text that Saab are boasting of how the two-stro

EMAIL: CLASSICS.ED@KELSEY.CO.UK FIND US ON FACEBOOK: THE LATEST FEEDS AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CLASSICSMONTHLYMAGAZINE Your family album plea has at last motivated me to write in. For nearly 50 years I have held on to three massive journals that my late f