More than meets the eye

DUNSTABLE DOWNS, BEDFORDSHIRE

The end of Bristol Cars was both tarnished and unseemly. Given that this was a marque formed over a perfectionist manufacturing ideal, the irony looks especially cruel. Let’s recap Bristol’s final cha

Last Sunday, 2 November, marked 130 years since the first appearance of ‘a journal published in the interests of the mechanically propelled road carriage’ in Britain. The Autocar was created in a peri

A chance phone call leads Matt to get started

You might have been surprised to read that such a quintessentially American car as Ash Medicks’ Rambler Rogue was ever officially offered in the UK (p20) – but in fact its maker not only sold cars her

They said Antonio – later ‘Tony’ – Lago was ‘spietato ma con grande fascino’ (which is to say ‘ruthless, but charming’). And they said of his most famous car that it was ‘une veritable oeuvre d’art’.