A 60-YEAR-OLD car with just over 20,000 miles on the clock, no matter what the marque, is a rare beast. That it had remained in the same ownership all its life is unusual, and that it should survive u

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It has been a hectic season for the Stovebolt Special: 11 hillclimb weekends, two hillclimb schools, and 3000 rapid road miles getting to and from them. And one serious breakage. That was sorted in ti

IT’S BARELY TWO months since I was gushing over Mazda’s bone-stock 1.6-litre heritage fleet car on these pages, so the idea of replacing that engine with a 3.0-litre V6 (of more than twice the power!)

These days, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are the marques best known for offering souped-up four-door cars off-the-shelf through respective M and AMG tuning houses. But the former racer and Jaguar dealer John

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