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This is a classic car website, so our focus is obviously on matters pertaining to old cars and the wide variety of events organised for such cars, be they historic motor-sport meetings, static displays in fields […]

If you asked the average motorist what was the first hot hatch, they would probably answer “the VW Golf GTi”, but they’d be wrong. There is in fact a case to be made for the 1967 Simca 1100Ti as the first hot h […]

For the classic car enthusiast, one of the joys of watching old TV series is spotting the then-current, now classic cars used by the producers of said TV shows. For instance, ITV4 here in the UK regularly runs The […]

One of the many criteria that endow a car with classic status is competition pedigree – Ferrari, Porsche and Jaguar are just three marques with deep and successful competition histories in Grand Prix and sports c […]

We don’t often feature two American Prime Finds in close succession, but we return to Detroit for this week’s car, big enough to qualify as a land yacht like the Chrysler 300 we featured recently, though some mod […]

One of the words we often use when describing some of the more unusual classic cars that we like is “quirky”. Another is “charming”, still more include “fun”, “practical” and “very cool”, and this week’s Prime […]

My enthusiasm for the Porsche 911 is well-known to most of our readers, I think, and having finally acquired my own classic 911, a 1972 2.4 911T, that enthusiasm remains undimmed. The Stuttgart sports car has been […]

Ronnie Peterson was one of my F1 heroes during my early teenage years when I started to take an interest in motorsport. Winner of 10 Grands Prix out of 123 contested, he was one of the best drivers never to win a […]

Chateau Impney is a grand 106-bedroom hotel designed to look like, well, a French chateau. It started hosting the Chateau Impney Hill Climb back in 1957 – an excellent year – and continued to do so through the ear […]

There’s a type of music that has in the past 20 years or so been classified as Yacht Rock. Artists that fall under this banner include the likes of Hall and Oates, Steely Dan (one of my favourite bands and in my v […]

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Coventry as the Detroit of the UK and the essential part it played in the rise and subsequent fall of the British motor industry. The lead photo for that piece was of the […]

At the recent Bicester Scramble, I spotted a car that I hadn’t seen for a while – a cream Volvo 164, which set me thinking I should try to find one for our Prime Find slot, not least because we have had only one […]