1960 jaguar mk2

The classics you love, drive and restore

1939 Alvis 12/70 Special, 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, 1972 Porsche 911T Berthold Dörrich WHEN MY BRITISH colleagues approached me as the publisher of Octane’s German edition to contribute to this secti

If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

During four decades of classic car enthusiasm, I’ve personally encountered only three real examples of a barn find: I recall a straw-filled barn (literally) at a Cornish farm we camped on as a child,

It’s not all doom and gloom, says James Walshe

On visiting a specialist, be they strangers or old friends, I always look in the skips (I found a Jaguar E-type bonnet in the last one I checked) and the ‘graveyard’ area around the back. I’m just abo