Dad’s dream cars

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

The classics you love, drive and restore

1939 Alvis 12/70 Special, 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite, 1972 Porsche 911T Berthold Dörrich WHEN MY BRITISH colleagues approached me as the publisher of Octane’s German edition to contribute to this secti

We find out if MG captured the spirit of its illustrious sports car past by driving three very different examples of the breed

Detroit muscle and European saloon-car racing were once intertwined. However, AMC was rarely represented on track, which made the arrival of the Spirit AMX all the more unexpected. Team Highball built

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.