May23

A Yellow Ford Fairla...

There are lots of youtubers who talk about “flipping”, buying and selling cars to make money. Of these car salesman talkers I like Rabbit best. He is a cross between the Dukes of Hazzard and Arthur Daley with the same “lovable rogue” appeal. What we share is a delight in a good...

Motoring Films ̵...

There are a range of issues with the depiction of cars in films, not least that the film makers are not usually “car guys” so the resulting film does not hang together if one is a “car guy”. Unrealistic chases, with preposterous tyre squealing on desert surfaces and driving into...

Sep23

’71 Camaro ...

It is a noted fact that men tend to collect the cars they loved as boys. As a boy, I was hypnotized with the idea of muscle cars – American V8s with similar raw power to European supercars, but mass produced and correspondingly far, far cheaper, both when new and today. The Dukes of...

Nurburgring Nordschl...

When devout Catholics visit Rome, there are seven so called Pilgrimage churches to visit. If there were seven pilgrimage sites in motorsport, let there be no doubt the Nurburgring Nordschleiffe would be one. The Nurburgring was a built in the twenties as part of a large government sponsored...