Car enthusiasts welcomed 2026 at a host of classic meets across the UK on New Year’s Day, with some unseasonably dry weather allowing old and new events to run at full strength – unlike last year’s st

John finds rarities at New Year’s Day gathering…

BRENT, NORTH LONDON

Into my penguin suit and off to the Royal Automobile Club on London’s Pall Mall to enjoy Motor Sport UK’s Night of Champions, where the championship winners of 2025 were to be celebrated. If you think

By 1985, the hot-rod world had evolved into something far less rebellious and challenging than its pre- and post-war roots on the dry lakes of southern California. It had become the preserve of celebr

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