Copper-bottomed classics

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

It's five miles to Exeter and one car has a half a tank of Esso Extra – will it make it or end up at the roadside?

If you told a Triumph dealer in 1965 that less than two decades later the famous name would have been last seen on a British-built Honda, they would probably have regarded you as an eccentric. Some 60

Forever car, forever memories. ‘This car is ...

Whoever decided that drivers should have either practicality or performance clearly lacked vision. For much of its existence the estate car or stationwagon was just a practical workhorse. Aside from o

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w