Octane cars

The good thing about running two examples of the same model – 1964 Ford Galaxies in my case – is that you can contrast and compare by swapping parts around. Long before the recent round of work descri

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

Last week’s motorsport fun (I ran Autocar’s electric Renault 5 in a Cornwall sprint) sent me into one of those urgent moods of car desire that stay with you after you’ve had a really good time. Sprint

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

Excited and apprehensive, I’m driving my Renault 5 long-termer 190 miles from home to Watergate Bay, Cornwall, for the local car club’s annual sprint. For two days a year, they close the road between

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