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@claus-ebberfeld, Guess I’ll just have to keep it longer then… ;-)

@robert-buckby, I must confess to spending a fair while admiring your lovely little Micra. Being such an early car, the condition, and not least that brilliant colour really made Annie stand out…

Ouuuuh… just look at those two Rochdale Olympic’s… Delicious!! Wish I had been able to attend myself – would have been good inspiration for my own Rochdale project.
Witnessing all the historic motorsport as […]

Yup Claus, I most certainly like our Elford Turbo! So eighties, so Nippon and so cool… :-)
The RX-7 is currently getting its first British MOT in some twenty years. Soon enough it’ll be back on a British […]

There are few things in life quite as soul-satisfying as a proper roadtrip in a classic car along backroads surrounded by beautiful, unspoilt nature.
Tony, I’m glad you enjoyed trip back to your roots… :-)

While I’m not out of a Volvo-family – far from in fact! – I’ve always quite liked the 480ES and 480 Turbo. They stand out in a crowd, and not just in a Volvo crowd either, but in any crowd in fact. And based on […]

I would be inclined to agree – the W123 is the last to full embrace all those old-world Mercedes-Benx virtues. I must admit though, that I quite like a early W126 on Barok alloys as well. But among the saloons, […]

Granted Claus, I have thus far only been a passanger in a DAF. I would love to try on that Variomatic gearbox for myself though. I’m not entirely convinced that it’s actually all that fantastic, but if nothing […]

@tony-wawryk, needless to say, you are perfectly right that neither the Montecarlo nor the Sonett are particularly unexceptional. And truth be told, there were others such as the Ferrari 308 which Claus has […]

Epic! Just EPIC…!!
I do understand your feelings for the Alpine A442, but for me it’s more about the earlier Alpines. I’ve adore the M64 and for that matter the A210 which came after it. Equally, the early […]

It was indeed a fabulous day out! All the winners were well justified as they looked amazing while perfectly summing up what the Festival of the Unexceptional is all about. But there were just so many other […]

I thoroughly agree! If any British racing driver deserved a knighthood, surely it would have to be Surtees.
But of much higher importance, if any classic car enthusiast ever deserved owning this unique BMW 507, […]

Being a sucker for all things wedge and not least the Torana GTR upon which this prototype was based, I suppose it’s unsurprising that I absolutely adore this wild and funky Aussie. I wonder if it would have […]

I feel it’s not so much that the French produce lesser cars than manufacturers from other countries nowadays. It’s more that their fall from the pinnacle of the automotive industry was so violent and abrupt that […]

Sounds and looks like a fab roadtrip!
Three lovely classics. Glad they did you proud through Mosel and on to Le Mans Classic.
Wish I had been able to join… :-)
Guess there’s always the next one – in two years…

@dave-leadbetter, the understated style was just one of the things which I so valued about my bronze metallic Peugeot 505 GTi 2.2 – no one spared it so much as a second glance, but I loved the design, the quality, […]