Caught in the classifieds

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

Losing Fisher & Ludlow (which had made monocoque bodies for the Standard 8 and 10) to the British Motor Corporation led Standard-Triumph to choose separate-chassis construction for its next small car.

Stabilising values and a coming of age mean if you buy well, the TR7 offers inexpensive classic access to Seventies cool

The post-war story of Rover provides one of the richest seams of intriguing might-have-beens and one-offs that you’ll find anywhere in the history of the automobile. There was everything from Topolino

All that glistens is not gold – or, in the case of Dave White’s Rover P6, blue. “When I first saw the car, it was presentable enough but it was only after I bought it and unbolted the body panels that

James Walshe explains how to buy Standard-Triumph’s clever little sportscar superstar