BRENT, NORTH LONDON

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

The year 1953 was when life in Britain began finally to bleed from monochrome to colour. Not everywhere, and not for everybody, but, slowly, there was a palpable sense that brighter days were just bey

THIRSK, NORTH YORKSHIRE

An A-road transport cafe circa 1958, the atmosphere thick with intrigue and cheap-cigar fumes. The waitress, a twin for comedy starlet Liz Fraser, scowls at the attempts of four businessmen at the win

If any vehicle is emblematic of the declining value of pre-war machinery, it is this 1927 Star Vela. The last-known six-cylinder Star to survive in the UK, it’s for sale at just under £30,000 – or rou