The other kiwi racer

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

The anecdote has thus far been delivered by detour and digression. Wynne Mitchell is doubled up in mirth as he recounts a story surrounding Tony Pond’s third-place finish on the 1985 RAC Rally of Grea

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

It seems to me that old cars are the nearest thing we have to working time machines: they are ideal for triggering memories, or even the feel and flavour of a particular era. Sports cars, of course, a

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

Until just after 10pm, it was a normal Saturday night at The Spaniard’s Inn on Hampstead Heath. Glasses clinking, the background radiation of chatter and high spirits, staff dashing to and fro because