Green and mean

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

REGULAR CARRERA S, SILVER, CIRCA 2005. Non-standard wheels and the exhaust tailpipes are fatter than factory items, but otherwise just like any well-used 911 of 20 years of age. Tidy inside, with a ma

t’s the sound that gets you. The deep burble of serious cubic inches loafing contentedly through England’s capital turns heads, eager to see what’s rumbling through the quiet, early-morning streets. M

The proof of this car being something special is actually at the back, in the boot. The AC’s roof has been stowed here for decades, and the bars for it are in a homemade protective wrap made from news

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.