BRENT, NORTH LONDON

It’s a petrolhead’s dream: wrestling a rusty old padlock and prising open a creaky door to unearth a classic car ripe for a loving restoration. It’s called a barn find, and there are YouTube channels

I HAVE HAD a subscription to Octane for over 20 years, but I read with even more pleasure than usual your feature on driving a Lancia Lambda to Varallo in North Italy. It brought back many marvellous

As anniversaries go, this year marks a big milestone for this publication. One man’s vision to produce a monthly magazine for the UK camping fraternity saw the launch of ‘Motor Caravan and Camping’ (M

That’s marque historian Clare Hay’s verdict regarding the boat-tail body on 1927 Bentley 3 Litre chassis TN1564, and it’s no idle hyperbole. This ultimate development of the ‘skiff ’ body style (origi

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