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I have to admit that in profile, in blue (per the pic above), the Mondial looks OK, but from just about every other angle, it just looks clumsy. Like Anders, the Ferrari’s that interest me are from the 60s and […]

Haha – you’re right, Dave – about as much as I do the Kadett Caravan :)

Another way to check (in the UK, at least) is to look up the registration number on the DVLA website, which thanks to smartphones we can do immediately. I realised this when establishing whether a Stratos was […]

A nice mix of semi-exotica and budget classics. I do struggle with some of the latter – Marinas, later Cortinas, for example, and the Cavalier falls into the same bracket. It’s true that these types of cars that […]

I’ve visited this museum a handful of times – most recently last year as part of my attendance at the BMW National Festival (a number of car clubs hold big events there; it’s central, close to the M40, lots of […]

Looks like a good meeting, Dave – I’m off to the MSV Masters Historic Festival at Brands on the 27th; hope it’s as good this!

Your comment about he unattended gullwing 300SL sums up one of the things I love […]

Always liked the 928, but have always LOVE the 911. In some ways, the 928 was a better car than it’s contemporary 911, but as you say, Claus, it was more GT than sports car, and for Porsche purists, especially at […]

Terrific story and photos, Anders, thanks for that!

@ab – some great cars there, Anders, on what looked like a glorious day! Love the Simca, the Alpine Renault (of course!), the Fiat 2300S, the Dino Spyder, and especially that stunning metallic dark blue Lancia […]

Hi Niels, regretfully, no, I didn’t – I was too distracted by the gorgeous Vignale-bodied coupe a little further along- clearly my mistake!

And here’s another shot of the Lusso (which is absolutely gorgeous, no doubt!)

YrHmblhst – found this among the ones I didn’t use :)

Just checked the reg number – it’s a Hawk HF. I don’t have photos that show the numbers of the other two, but if this one is a Hawk, I guess they probably are too. How disappointing. I know nothing about the kit […]

Hi Dave, yes it was, one of the best classic events I’ve been to. That blue saloon is indeed a DeTomaso – a Deauville.
Interesting question about the Stratoseses…to be honest, I have no idea, but I would guess […]

I like the earlier TVR’s quite a lot, and also the wedge-shaped Tasmin – reminds me a little of the Concorde with it’s “droop-snoot” profile – which is no bad thing imo. This is very different to the droop-snoot […]

What yrhmblhst said. As those surroundings include wider roads, more space, bigger houses (in the suburbs), the cars don’t look as out of scale as they do on our narrower streets and parked outside our smaller houses.

Very smart car, and looks good value from the oics. One of my uncles ran one of these (one of a sequence of Audis that started with a DKW 1000 through Audi 80/100). The coupe version is properly lovely, a German […]

I love this! Hard to believe it’s based on a 914 (a car I’m also a fan of). Of course, it wouldn’t have survived long had Porsche decided to build it – forthcoming safety regulations would soon have put paid to […]

Very interesting article! I have to disagree with this though – “I don’t feel that Maserati ever had much luck with their names.” Ghibli, Bora, Khamsin, Mistral, Kyalami – wonderful names, all of winds (except t […]