‘still under 10,000 miles on the clock’

If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

The classics you love, drive and restore

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

Road users had best be careful if they don’t want to incur the wrath of that police constable for over-revving their engines

ASKING £19,995 PRICE ENGINE 1298cc/4-cyl/OHC POWER 89bhp@6000rpm TORQUE ...

EVER SINCE I BOUGHT THE MX-5 LAST March, I’d been thinking about an appropriate road trip, but work and other grown-up stuff just kept getting in the way. Then one evening last autumn came a phone cal