‘it’s without doubt a beautiful, charismatic and iconic car to drive’

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

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

The classics you love, drive and restore

If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

Before I could see it, I heard it. The venue was Boughton House, a summer weekend car meet in the beautiful, manicured grounds of this Northamptonshire stately home, built originally in the 17th Centu

It’s not that hard a sell, road-tripping in northern Portugal. It’s not like going to the pub and telling your mates you’re doing a driving holiday of Bulgaria – which, while beautiful and under-explo