Ricci’s garage

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

Kettle on... time for some tall tales from the PC workshop

The classics you love, drive and restore

am being overtaken by my own wing. As I tilt up onto Boxberg test ground’s banking and the sun curves behind me, the lengthening shadows project the great roll hoop of a spoiler onto the road ahead. S

Traditional classic or modern classic? The MG RV8 of 1992-95 is a hard car to pigeonhole. It looks (a bit) like a classic MGB but has a wider track, upgraded suspension and a thumping great 3.9-litre