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Every year contains some notable anniversaries worth marking in one way or another. In our classic car world, some of those anniversaries relate to specific events, races, prominent lives and of course the launch […]

For the past few decades, BMW has been one of the world’s most successful motor manufacturers and one of the best-known brands on the planet. However, they almost didn’t make it into the 1960’s – in fact, in 1959 […]

When I used to visit my Verwandschaft in  Germany as a young boy with my family in the early 1960’s, I remember being impressed by the many exotic (to me) cars that were rarely – if ever – seen in the UK back t […]

At the London Classic Car show last year, I saw a car that I’d heard of but not previously seen in the metal – or fibreglass, to be more precise. A bright orange wedge, it could hardly be more ‘70s, and would […]

In the years we’ve been featuring our weekly Prime Finds – classics that we find for sale while indulging in that favourite classic car enthusiast’s pastime, scouring the internet looking at cars we either inten […]

Two summers ago, I made a trip to Germany in die Zitrone that was among my most memorable, which I wrote about here. While the main aim of that road-trip was to visit some of my many relatives in the country I […]

In these strange times, many businesses have had to adapt to unwelcome, even suffocating restrictions – indeed, for some, it’s all sadly too much, and a good number of useful and solid businesses that have bee […]

Here at ViaRETRO, we’re big fans of compact sports saloons such as the Lotus Cortina GT, Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce, Hillman Avenger Tiger to name just three – but two that we particularly like and in a couple of […]

You like Italian classics, especially from the 1970’s. Your tastes lean towards the sportier end of the spectrum,  You also need your sporting classic to be at least somewhat practical, but although some of It […]

A few months ago we ran a Prime Find which featured an Avanti – not an actual Studebaker, true, since they only manufactured Avanti’s for eighteen short months between June 1962 and December the following year […]

Like most classic car enthusiasts, we love the sporty, the exotic, the elegant, and the outright outrageous – who doesn’t? We go weak at the knees at the sight and sound of a Lamborghini Miura, Porsche 911 2.7 […]

After moving to a largely outdoor location for their previous auction, Historics reverted to their last pre-lockdown venue at Ascot Racecourse for their sale last weekend, which for a while looked uncertain to […]