Mick walsh

Fifty-one years ago, I walked into WH Smith in Hitchin and spotted Classic Car magazine. The cover featured the famous ‘Tulipwood’ Hispano-Suiza shot in a London mews, and the story by historian Jonat

I loved Martin Buckley’s piece about his Mamod Roadster (Backfire, July). Martin is always my go-to when I get a new magazine delivered, but enough sycophancy… It rang a bell with me when Martin menti

There is something rather special about driving a car built in the 1800s. This 1899 Wolseley 3.5hp Voiturette’s single-cylinder motor first burst into life when Queen Victoria was on the throne and pr

At this title we know the SLR in general and one, chassis 0004/55, in particular. It’s the car in which Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the 1955 Mille Miglia after which the latter wrote his acc

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

A pair of UK-based enthusiasts has stumbled across a remarkable haul of British classics in Italy. The cars had been in the showroom of a local Austin Rover dealership that closed down during the earl