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Tony Wawryk commented on the post, Prime Find of the Week: A Quirky British Sports Car 4 years, 11 months ago
Just looked up the live stream of today’s auction – auctioneer announced it as 1500cc…so who knows? Anyway, very little interest, hammer came down as “very provisional” on the only bid, £4,000. Oh well. Perhaps […]
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 4 years, 11 months ago
In past articles I’ve referred to how the history of the British motor industry is littered with the names of small specialist manufacturers, using the mechanical parts of mainstream manufacturer’s cars and cre […]
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Tony Wawryk commented on the post, Sometimes Dreams Do Come True! 4 years, 11 months ago
Cheers Anders! It won’t be ready for Hampton Court, but hopefully before the summer ends!
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 4 years, 11 months ago
This week’s Prime Find is a car I don’t think I’ve seen at a show or on the road for many years. It’s a car one of my cousins drove back in the early 1980’s, and I remember being pretty impressed by it, belting d […]
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 4 years, 11 months ago
One of the joys of moving to a new area is discovering new classic car events to go to, and this week I had not one, but two – more on the second one next week.
The first of these was a late afternoon/early e […]
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Tony Wawryk commented on the post, Sometimes Dreams Do Come True! 4 years, 11 months ago
Cheers Paul! It only took me 40 years so you have plenty of time yet! Hope to see you at an event before the year ends!
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Tony Wawryk commented on the post, Sometimes Dreams Do Come True! 4 years, 11 months ago
Thank you all, and @Rona – you beat me to it!
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 4 years, 11 months ago
It’s no secret to anyone who reads ViaRETRO reasonably regularly, or to my friends, that I have long-cherished the idea of owning an early 1970’s longhood Porsche 911. I’ve had a yearning – not too strong a word […]
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 4 years, 11 months ago
Our weekly Prime Finds are usually cars that are ready to drive and enjoy, as well as – again, usually – coming in under a theoretical budget of £20,000, and hopefully we’ve unearthed a fair number of gems over t […]
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 4 years, 11 months ago
As well as claiming to host the biggest gathering of classic cars in the world, the Silverstone Classic also lays claim to being the biggest historic race meeting on the planet, at least in terms of number of […]
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 4 years, 11 months ago
We featured a TVR Tasmin as a Prime Find almost exactly one year ago, so rather than repeat what I wrote then about the company’s convoluted history, and as I’m short of time this week, allow me to suggest tha […]
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 4 years, 12 months ago
The Silverstone Classic – or just “The Classic”, as the organisers like to call it – has been my favourite major classic event for the past half-dozen years, and I really missed it last year when it was cance […]
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 5 years ago
The FIAT 128’s ordinary, square three-box design disguised some major innovations when it was introduced in 1969, with it’s transverse front-engine, front drive layout with transmission located alongside the eng […]
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 5 years ago
Volvo first used the PV (for PersonVagnar) designation in 1927 on their PV4 saloon, and continued with it until the introduction of the 120 or Amazon series. Volvo’s PV444 series was introduced to the Swedish pu […]
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Tony Wawryk commented on the post, Nostalgia Is Definitely What It Used To Be! 5 years ago
Thank you, Lars – delighted that you enjoyed it!
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Tony Wawryk commented on the post, Prime Find of the Week : A Top of the Range Monza 5 years ago
Well I was pretty close with estimate that the owner would be lucky to see a quarter of their money back (you could hardly call it an investment) – sold for £25,470 including commissions, so about £22,500 to the o […]
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Tony Wawryk commented on the post, Prime Find of the Week: A Pastel MGA to Brighten Up Your Day 5 years ago
This MGA unfortunately didn’t find a buyer today – indeed, none of the three “A”‘s up for sale today sold, surprisingly.
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Tony Wawryk commented on the post, Prime Find of the Week : A Fully Restored Early Alfasud 5 years ago
Ole, the colour does seem a strange decision, but someone, somewhere, will like it :)
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 5 years ago
Everyone has a soft spot for the Alfasud…don’t they? Well, anyone with any interest in classic cars, at least. One of Alfa Romeo’s longest-running model ranges, it was built from 1971 to 1989, with a number of bo […]
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Tony Wawryk wrote a new post 5 years ago
The past few weeks I’ve been somewhat pre-occupied with a house move to rural Worcestershire but having started to emerge from piles of boxes and generally getting used to both our new home and new surroundings, I […]
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