Sales were buoyant enough to necessitate a move from its Longwall Street premises to a larger mews garage in Alfred Lane, but the arrival of Morris’ cheaper, four-seat Occasional Four forced the ...

The year 1948 was a significant one for British motoring and motorsport: on 18 September, racing was re-established with the inaugural fixture at Goodwood, and on 27 October the Earls Court Motor Show ...

Morgan considers its Experience Centre to be a tourist destination as much as a focal point for die-hard brand enthusiasts. Forming part of the hallowed Pickersleigh Road site in Malvern (although ...

Sam Bailey started the SL Shop almost 20 years ago. It has since moved at least twice, and today it has more than 15,000 customers on its books. Sam grew up helping his late father work on ...

“One of my favourites is a 1930s tin fire-brigade truck with a high ladder, which belonged to my father. Plus I also have a collection of oil cans, tonnes of magazines, books and workshop manuals ...

Ford must have felt unbeatable in the early 1970s, but it was all about to come crashing down: Holden had a secret weapon – a young Peter Brock was waiting in the wings – and the Australian government ...

Coded X1/2, the Autobianchi emerged at the autumn 1969 Turin Salon as the A112. Its Fiat sibling, project X1/4, only arrived in April 1971, as the 127 . Common to all three models was strut front ...

The list of cars I have owned in the past would perhaps make any classic enthusiast’s pulse race. My first was a Vauxhall 12, followed by Morris Minor and Austin A35 vans, three Minis (a standard car, ...

Car designer Tsutomu ‘Tom’ Matano, who penned the lines of the first two generations of the Mazda MX-5, died on 20 September at the age of 76. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, Matano qualified as an engineer ...

Rolls-Royce produced the Phantom’s chassis with either a 12ft or 12ft 6½in wheelbase, at its factories in Derby, England or Springfield, Massachusetts. It took four years for the Phantom to shake its ...

“If you’ve driven a Vauxhall 30-98 before, you’ll have no problem,” says Tony Lees as I mount his 1913, 11,776cc Hispano-Suiza aero-engined Vauxhall Viper for a few laps of Mallory Park. Well, I have ...