‘i was recognised in the street and i briefly felt my tv career was about to take off’

Material from the BBC’s ‘golden age’ tends to be recalled through a heavily rose-tinted lens. Apart from Fawlty Towers, certain Monty Python skits and a few documentaries, I’m not sure it was all that

The Rosses have an idyllic garden. Birdsong intertwines with a gentle blub-blub from the water feature. Bees flit across the dahlias. Across the paddock, behind the hedgerow lie three Renault 11s spli

I struggled for ages to find a label for the extraordinary photo here before finally coming up with: “Wife comments on styling of husband’s new Fiat Multipla”. As I’m sure you know, such an evocative

Much like a 19-year-old Bob Dylan arriving in New York brimming with talent and potential, Gordon Murray landed in England as a 23-year-old with little more than uncanny ability and burning ambition.

SINCE THE DEMISE OF THE E-TYPE IN THE MID- ’70s, there had been a desire among enthusiasts, including many at Jaguar, to see a replacement, an F-type. It nearly happened in the mid-’80s, but for a num

The ‘Blue Train’ Bentley is not blue. It is also not a train. It’s a car named after a race that it did not compete in. An illegal street race no less. And yet it is – with the possible exception of o