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The National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is located between Birmingham and Coventry in the middle of England, and hosts all manner of events, concerts and exhibitions. These include two of the biggest shows on the UK […]

A few weeks ago we featured one of the most desirable small coupés to come out of Italy, the Lancia Fulvia, as our Prime Find. Pretty, nimble and a joy to drive, the Fulvia was a demonstration of how the Italians […]

While some cars have lifespans not much longer than that of a gadfly – well, OK, not that short, but often just a single model cycle and sometimes not even that before being canned, while others last for decades a […]

Much has been written about the Rover SD1 – one of many British Leyland cars that showed enormous promise, it should have been a great success, but is generally remembered negatively thanks to poor execution and b […]

Most years see a number of classic car anniversaries of one kind or another, and 2022 is no exception – we’ve had the 75th anniversary of Ferrari, including the 60th birthday of that marque’s legendary 250GT […]

In recent weeks we’ve focused on a few staples of the classic car scene that somehow or other we hadn’t previously featured as one of our weekly Prime Finds, and this week, we’re taking a look at another – the ven […]

As regular readers may remember, I’m in the happy position of owning a mini-garage of three German classics – a 1972 Porsche 911T, a 1975 BMW 2002tiiLux, and a 1984 Mercedes 280CE. I love them all and have enj […]

We love classic Lancia’s in general here at ViaRETRO – who with a soul doesn’t? – and in the same way that I was surprised we hadn’t previously featured a VW Beetle in our Saturday Prime Find slot until a couple […]

Insurance company Footman James have been holding their Coffee and Chrome Collective events throughout the year, mostly at Chateau Impney but also at the British Motor Museum located at Gaydon, and for their […]

There are a couple of significant firsts attributable to the Oldsmobile Rocket 88. Some consider it to be the first muscle car (although the term wasn’t widely used until the mid-‘60s), thanks to the com […]

In a few short years Bicester Heritage has become a destination for classic car enthusiasts like few others, a mecca for those wishing to see hundreds of classic cars in a location that exudes tradition and […]

In the just over five years that the international version of ViaRETRO has been going, it seems we have yet to feature one of the best-known, best-loved, most numerous and most unexceptional classics of all as one […]

Regular readers will be familiar with the Classic Motor Hub, or CMH for short, located on a former WW2 RAF FIghter Command base near Bibury, at the southern edge of the Cotswolds in Middle England. We’ve written a […]

As we all know, the French more or less stopped making interesting cars a couple of decades ago, with just a few exceptions such as the Renault Avantime and Vel Satis, the Peugeot 406 Coupé and…well, that’s abou […]