Robert coucher

If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

The classics you love, drive and restore

On visiting a specialist, be they strangers or old friends, I always look in the skips (I found a Jaguar E-type bonnet in the last one I checked) and the ‘graveyard’ area around the back. I’m just abo

1939 Alvis 12/70 Special, 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, 1972 Porsche 911T Berthold Dörrich WHEN MY BRITISH colleagues approached me as the publisher of Octane’s German edition to contribute to this secti

OWNED BY Keith Fox FIRST CLASSIC Lancia Fulvia Sport Zagato DREAM CLASSIC ‘Blue Train’ Bentley Gurney Nutting Coupé My first old car was a Volkswagen Beetle, but back in the ’70s it wasn’t yet cherish