David simister editor

The classics you love, drive and restore

WHAT IS BEING billed as the most decadent motor car ever created is expected to be one of the star cars as Concours of Elegance returns to Hampton Court on 5-7 September. The one-off 1926 Rolls-Royce

This was a burnt-out wreck destined to be bangered until Glen and Marie-Anne stepped in

Some cars take you instantly back to a time and place, even if it’s one to which you didn’t get first-hand exposure yourself. Such was the case with a 1960 Pontiac I spotted at the Gloucestershire Vin

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.