‘the only way to rectify it was to go back to square one’

The classics you love, drive and restore

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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

porterpress.co.uk RRP £125 Vanishingly few cars have won the Le Mans 24 Hours more than once. Indeed, up until relatively recently, Ferrari believed no single example of its cars had done so. But of c

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.

The obvious question is whether it would have been easier to soup-up a stock Europa rather than streetify a 47. It’s a fair one, too, especially if you are unfamiliar with quite how different a Type 4