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The profile shot of the Gordon-Keeble… a pretty special looking thing in that shade of sea foamy grey green. You don’t often see them painted in lighter colours. The olive XJ-S is rather nice too, and looks sui […]

Hi Andy, thanks for the comment. It must have been you at Carsington yesterday then. We only stopped by for a flying visit but if I’d known I would have said hi.

Thanks for reading, and welcome to ViaRETRO.

An interesting article about an interesting little car. I visited the museum at Wolfsburg earlier this year (the report can be found on these pages) and I was quite enchanted some of the prototypes. In fact, many […]

I’ve spent a few days with a first generation CRX, so you’ll get no complaints from me should you take the plunge…

Yes, but at least in an Alpine the engine is set low and over the drive wheels. I guess seeing as we can’t test a 363CS we’re not going to know.

The factory 4 pot 360s are well balanced enough to be popular […]

I once part owned a 360 but never got to see it, let alone drive it.

As for wondering how the 363CS drives, well perhaps I wouldn’t have started from here. The PRV is heavy old motor and there are limits to […]

It appears the Manta didn’t sell this time as it’s straight back on with a Buy It Now price of £60k. That’s big money for a Manta but that provenance and originality won’t ever come cheap. However, if you added […]

It’s an interesting topic; that of real patina and not the chemically induced hipster variant. The reality of running an old car means it will inevitably show it’s age and you shouldn’t expect to be able to hold […]

Now we’re talking.

Good dog photograph, an important box ticked there.

Many excellent spots here but I almost missed the Ford Fiesta Supersport in the main gallery, being the less shouty silver variant. A rare thing indeed. […]

Another up-vote for the mechanism on the ’02. Such a lovely action, mine are always open.

More importantly though, are you secretly disappointed that nobody has complimented your choice of driving gloves?

Reduce. Re-use. Recycle. The slack jawed masses need to place the emphasis on the first of those.

I love the ethos of flea markets and car boot sales because somebody’s cast offs become someone else’s new acq […]

No, it looks awful. Regular 740s are marvellous.

I’ll have a pop at the mystery car on the album cover with a guess I know is wrong… the closest I can get is the original Skoda Octavia but the car in the […]

Ha, now that’s what I call a reader reaction! :)

Seriously @yrhmblhst , I think we’d need to sedate you medically if you lived over here. We’ve just had London shut down for weeks by Extinction Rebellion […]

Ah, back in the days of bold graphics and “offroad express” emblazoned down the side. I recall a ride in an early Shogun when I was an impressionable child; all velour seats and tinted windows, but most of all I r […]

@jakob356 “If someday it came out, that it was made with child labour, the production polluted an awful lot, the makers never paid their taxes, or it was supported by some non democratic power….”

If you […]