‘in 1958 it had been put in a barn which then collapsed on it’

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.

Graham Proud has, for the past 28 years, been one of the organisers of a small classic car group known as the Whitby Area Classic Vehicle Club. One of the organisation’s members, Dick Hoyle, recently

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

The classics you love, drive and restore

During four decades of classic car enthusiasm, I’ve personally encountered only three real examples of a barn find: I recall a straw-filled barn (literally) at a Cornish farm we camped on as a child,

Among other places, we take a trip Down Under this month…