‘you can’t just go and buy spares for these cars’

What if I told you there was a place in Japan where your wildest fantasies could be brought to life? Not that one. I’m talking about the one where the car in your garage looks as good as a 250 Testa R

IF THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY, 2007 feels like a surprisingly long flight away. In the land of 2007, there was just one Taylor Swift album, one Transformers film and, as of January that year, one g

The world is awash in restomods, continuation cars and misty eyed tributes these days, cars that lean on stories from the past to charge exorbitant amounts in the present. Monterey Car Week is the epi

The good thing about running two examples of the same model – 1964 Ford Galaxies in my case – is that you can contrast and compare by swapping parts around. Long before the recent round of work descri

Variety is the spice of life. If every carmaker sang from the same song sheet, the world would be a duller place. Therefore we should salute those who choose to zig where others zag. Those who swim ag

Alfasud designer Giorgetto Giugiaro was given carte blanche by Volkswagen to design the Golf, the Italian chosen because he’d studied manufacturing methods. The car entered production with minimal cha