Rods and mockers

The classics you love, drive and restore

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

It wasn’t just Ferrari with which Ford was picking fights in the 1960s. More than 10,000 miles away from Le Mans, where GT40s scrapped with 330 P3s for round-the-clock supremacy, another clash was dev

During four decades of classic car enthusiasm, I’ve personally encountered only three real examples of a barn find: I recall a straw-filled barn (literally) at a Cornish farm we camped on as a child,

1939 Alvis 12/70 Special, 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, 1972 Porsche 911T Berthold Dörrich WHEN MY BRITISH colleagues approached me as the publisher of Octane’s German edition to contribute to this secti

Caravans and camper vans feature only rarely in Autocar these days – but half a century ago they were a regular and prominent topic, reflecting the popularity of such vehicles among the British public