Classic Car & Restoration Show 2019

  Part One – The Classics The ‘Practical Classics’ Classic Car & Restoration Show, at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre, has to be one of the U.K.’s, if not the […]

Healey News Bulletin – March 2019

  HEALEY AND OTHER FINE CARS NEWS BULLETIN March 2019   This is the third in the Warwick Healey archive ‘oral history’ series of posts. As I mentioned in the first one, […]

Morgan Motors Goes Italian

Breaking News …… MILAN (Reuters) – Italian investment group Investindustrial said on Tuesday it had bought a majority stake in iconic British sportscar maker Morgan Motor Company Ltd. The company, […]

The Talbot Sunbeam Lotus’s 40th Anniversary

The Rootes Group owned some of the outstanding names in British motor sport heritage, Sunbeam and Talbot in particular. Like most British manufactures in the 1960s, 70s and 80s the […]

Race Retro 2019 – Report Pt. Two

Henri Toivenen's Sunbeam Lotus

Part Two – Rally Cars and Vintage Racers In Part One I shared with you some photos I took of Current Era cars, used for various forms of racing, that […]

Race Retro 2019 – Report

Part One – Modern Era Racers and Others Europe’s No.1 historic motor sport show came to Warwickshire’s Stoneleigh Park once again on the week-end of 22 -24 February 2019. Sponsored […]

Healey News Bulletin February 2019

  HEALEY AND OTHER FINE CARS NEWS BULLETIN February 2019   This is the second in the ‘oral history’ series of posts. As I mention in the first one, published last December, […]

Healey News Bulletin January 2019

  HEALEY AND OTHER FINE CARS NEWS BULLETIN January 2019 Introduction When I first started my classic car blog in 2011 I called it ‘twincam serendipity’. Twincam as in ‘car’ and serendipity […]

Healey News Bulletin December ’18

HEALEY AND OTHER FINE CARS NEWS BULLETIN DECEMBER 2018 During the HMCA Bulletin series I often mentioned that in addition to compiling the Wawick Healey Motor Company archive catalogue and making it […]