STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

The classics you love, drive and restore

Brake hard, drop to second, wipe the wheel as you thrust forwards again and gather the second apex, run wide on exit and then gun this Riley Brooklands down the very short straight accompanied by what

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

It seems to me that old cars are the nearest thing we have to working time machines: they are ideal for triggering memories, or even the feel and flavour of a particular era. Sports cars, of course, a

In February 2009, C&SC published a Your classic story of my purchase of a Ferrari 348tb, which I took to my home in Spain. I ended by stating: ‘I can’t see myself ever letting go of it.’ Inevitably, t