Unsung hero

The first use of ‘sports car’ is often credited to Vauxhall’s C10 Prince Henry, but in many ways the term would be better applied to this, the earlier 20hp A-type. Disarmingly handsome, low-slung and

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

THE HANDBRAKE FULCRUM. IT’S A SMALL, INCONSEQUENTIAL piece of metal, one you’d never see unless you pulled the gaiter off and dismantled the mechanism, but somehow this ordinary component has been mad

ASKING £10,000 PRICE ENGINE 4253cc/6-cyl/DOHC POWER 200bhp@5000rpm TORQUE ...

Brake hard, drop to second, wipe the wheel as you thrust forwards again and gather the second apex, run wide on exit and then gun this Riley Brooklands down the very short straight accompanied by what

The bolted-in rollcage shivers as you drive. It is the same cage that, along with the vinyl bucket seat’s determined side bolsters, made entering this Morris Mini Cooper ‘S’ feel like squeezing betwee