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Mike’s Jag hadn’t turned a wheel for months and needed a degree of fettling to get it back on the road. First job – a long overdue new set of tyres…

Now really only used for long journeys, the ...

1939 Alvis 12/70 Special, 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, 1972 Porsche 911T Berthold Dörrich WHEN MY BRITISH colleagues approached me as the publisher of Octane’s German edition to contribute to this secti

On visiting a specialist, be they strangers or old friends, I always look in the skips (I found a Jaguar E-type bonnet in the last one I checked) and the ‘graveyard’ area around the back. I’m just abo

Fixing advice from our garage proprietor Steve Rothwell