Accordingly the cars were rebadged as the Hansa 1100 for 1959 and given a further restyle, with a stepped chrome side strip and integral rear fins. Yet it was all to no avail. In the 1959 model year, ...

So it has a magnificent motor, handbuilt in Newport Pagnell like all the four-cam, Tadek Marek-designed V8s that starred as the lead act in every Aston from the DBS V8 of 1969 until bowing out at a ...

Ferrari Dino 246GTS vs F355GTS, a rare Opel Ascona 400, 1950s British saloons and much more – the latest Classic & Sports Car ...

The Mercedes-Benz 300SEL 6.8 AMG ‘Rote Sau’ (Red Pig) is one of the marque’s best-known touring cars and this week the brand’s former design chief has shared his 21st-century reimagining of this ...

I originally created my Triumph Special 30 years ago, using full-size paper patterns. It loosely resembled an MG J2, being flat-sided with a slab tank. It was constructed from ¾in plywood with an ...

Alfa Romeo dealer Bell & Colvill imported small numbers of Spiders in the 1980s and converted them to RHD. When it first appeared in 1966, the Spider was a great formula: all-alloy twin-cam, ...

Tony Collins, the founder of I Say, Ding Dong!, concedes that his business has “a silly name”.

For all their apparent differences, the Lancia Thema 8.32 and Lotus Carlton share plenty. Both were created for the same reason: a large car manufacturer conferring its more exotic connections on to a ...

Despite Ferrari’s trademark, lightning-quick rack and trick rear-wheel steering, the 12Cilindri has natural responses whichever ‘ manettino ’ driving mode is selected on the steering-wheel-mounted ...

Born in 1938, Jankel was brought up in the East End of London. His father, Alexander, ran a wholesale clothing business, and there was an assumption that Bob would join its ranks when he was old ...

Andrew Cox, the owner of this splendid 1973 700ES, recalls how he caught the, er, bug. “I saw my first one in 1974,” he says. “It belonged to a friend of a friend who was a year older than me. “They ...

The concept had been well tried for many years before 1953, by Meccano in Liverpool, where Dinky Toys were produced. Yet really these were the preserve of the wealthy middle classes. A Dinky ...