Talking dirty

In February 2009, C&SC published a Your classic story of my purchase of a Ferrari 348tb, which I took to my home in Spain. I ended by stating: ‘I can’t see myself ever letting go of it.’ Inevitably, t

It has been a hectic season for the Stovebolt Special: 11 hillclimb weekends, two hillclimb schools, and 3000 rapid road miles getting to and from them. And one serious breakage. That was sorted in ti

Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

The 33 may lack the Alfasud's sparkle, but they now make an excellent low-cost introduction to classic Alfa Romeo motoring

Quirky adj. 1 having or characterised by peculiar or unexpected traits or aspects 2 Automotive see: Alfa Romeo. The Oxford English Dictionary may stop at the first definition in reality, but anyone wh

A 60-YEAR-OLD car with just over 20,000 miles on the clock, no matter what the marque, is a rare beast. That it had remained in the same ownership all its life is unusual, and that it should survive u