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DUNSTABLE DOWNS, BEDFORDSHIRE

Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top

The situation looks chaotic in this mid-Eighties dash for the Channel – but there are plenty of vehicles to keep classic car-spotters occupied

In the first of three helpings of nostalgia this week, we head to a Birmingham site that helped all these vehicles go. Or sometimes not go…

Apart from dalliances with V8s (and begging an exception for a currently owned Ford twin-turbo V6), I’ve always had a preference for small road cars with simple engines. So why I should be seized by a

You might have noticed that this magazine’s ‘Lost in the archive’ page is usually written by me – voluntarily so. The reason is simple: I’m utterly fascinated by history. The intrigue of times past ha