Regular readers will know the 99 had quite an eventful summer holiday at the Le Mans Classic with the rest of the C&SC gang (News special, September). Several ‘issues’ occurred on its travels, meaning

The end of Bristol Cars was both tarnished and unseemly. Given that this was a marque formed over a perfectionist manufacturing ideal, the irony looks especially cruel. Let’s recap Bristol’s final cha

This ex-army Land Rover Defender initially presented as a simple restoration job for specialist Artifact Automotive, but under the relatively robust skin was a dead engine and a chassis riddled with rot

The concours world exists in a strange parallel universe. Participants often spend huge amounts of money on buying and restoring a classic, only to watch on while a bunch of strangers wearing white Pa

Few cars have run counter to their maker’s reputation as starkly as the Jowett Jupiter, a model that transformed the image of the Yorkshire minnow when it was launched in 1950. High-tech, engineered c

A chance phone call leads Matt to get started