I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

The classics you love, drive and restore

In 1976 Lancia brought out the Gamma, a luxury saloon that took the place of the Flavia 2000. It had a flat-four engine of 1998cc or 2484cc, but it was withdrawn in 1984, after 15,296 had been built,

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

MY MUM HAD AN AX GTi. IT WAS the first new car the Gallagher household had ever bought. It was white (a legal requirement in Essex for all hot hatches in the 1980s and ’90s), the lacquer on the alloys

Tony bought this Zephyr for £15 in 1975 – but not to preserve it. Little did he know that it would become his show-stopping classic…