Ricci’s garage

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

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

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.

Rottweil is a small town in Germany’s Black Forest with several claims to fame. You can guess the first, not least because there are sculptures of handsome but rather intimidating dogs around the plac

The classics you love, drive and restore

In the history of noises getting better over time, the sound of metal on metal in an engine is one that never improves or disappears. This was confirmed as I sat on the grass verge of the A14 waiting