It has been a hectic season for the Stovebolt Special: 11 hillclimb weekends, two hillclimb schools, and 3000 rapid road miles getting to and from them. And one serious breakage. That was sorted in ti

The bolted-in rollcage shivers as you drive. It is the same cage that, along with the vinyl bucket seat’s determined side bolsters, made entering this Morris Mini Cooper ‘S’ feel like squeezing betwee

Bit of trouble with the Mini. Nothing serious, just inconvenient. Our 65,000-mile, 69-plate Cooper S was about 3000 miles short of its next major service when a warning popped up to announce that its

Speed, we often point out, is a commodity less freely available to drivers on British roads than it used to be. On safety grounds that’s probably okay, given the growing population of cars and the fai

The Wheeler Dealers set out tonight to create a Hillman Imp that corrects the faults found by Sixties road-testers – but Rootes’ baby has had its ups and downs with the press, as we discover

Dave Partridge bought his Peugeot 106 1.3 Rallye to compete in motorsport events – and then the rules were changed. “I bought it 14 years ago for £450 with the aim of going sprinting and hillclimbing