West country farmer, Matt Dale, prefers using his boat to working on it - but sometimes, even he has to bite the bullet and get his tools out

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I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

A thorough 100-point restoration on a valuable flat-floor Jaguar E-type is commonplace, but on a rusty 1969 2+2 automatic? That takes serious dedication

Here we are first night in our new Rapido. I saw our little piece in the latest MMM magazine (January, page 11) and I have done so many upgrades in the handling and rattle dept since. We still got the

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