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This is a 1958 Opel Kapitan, fresh from
General Motors recently reaffirmed its plans for a UK relaunch through Cadillac, as part of a wider European expansion spearheaded by its luxury brand. Or perhaps we should say a re-re-re-relaunch, as
What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of
The classics you love, drive and restore
In February 1948, the Cadillac Series 62 Coupe became the first American car with tailfins, inspired by the Lockheed P38 Lightning aircraft. A decade later, they reached such baroque heights on US car
Losing Fisher & Ludlow (which had made monocoque bodies for the Standard 8 and 10) to the British Motor Corporation led Standard-Triumph to choose separate-chassis construction for its next small car.
Richard’s grandad bought this Vauxhall Chevette – one of the oldest left – in 1975 and it has been saved from oblivion not once but twice