‘i’m a mechanic by trade, and don’t like to see cars go to waste’

Nigel Hankins loves unusual cars, particularly large American ones, restoring and stashing them in and around Weston-super-Mare

The classics you love, drive and restore

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

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.

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

Some cars take you instantly back to a time and place, even if it’s one to which you didn’t get first-hand exposure yourself. Such was the case with a 1960 Pontiac I spotted at the Gloucestershire Vin