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

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…

Tom poses with Maggie after getting other people ...

I was 30 when reality hit me, sitting across from a disinterested LMP2 team owner in a workshop office: I’d toured Europe to find sponsors; convinced, coerced, trained and performed. How did he know t

(1998-2005)

Gary Bamford (right) spent 25 years as a truck mechanic, but his passion was always old bikes – and Greeves in particular. Since starting British Bikes 1970, he and his colleague Mike Ford have never looked back and are now the official classic Greeves specialists