Jensen Motors – The Beginning
Introduction In 2013 a number of my posts, unexpectedly, featured the Austin Healey 100/3000. The trigger for this was me being provoked into wanting to draw peoples’ attention to the […]
Cars – A Story of the Hudson Motor Company, Detroit, USA
This post has, probably, the strangest origins ever – Pixar’s excellent animation film ‘Cars’. When this film first appeared in 2006 it did not grab my interest, in fact I was slightly alienated […]
Austin Healey 3000 MK.II Restoration
Introduction I was introduced to John Lavill by a friend of mine who lived**very close to John in Halesowen, Worcestershire. One day, in the Spring of 2013, my friend, Brian, […]
Car Restoration in Holland
I have a friend, Brian, who shares my interest in cars. I keep him up to date with my automotive blog posts and he was particularly interested in the ones […]
Kit Car Show – Donington 2013
Kit Car Show The power of advertising My wife and I only visited this show because I heard it advertised on local radio, proof that it ‘pays to advertise’. I […]
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012
My wife and I visited the Goodwood Festival of Speed for the first time about fifteen years ago. It had already established itself as one of the ‘must go to’ […]
American Car Show – Hatton Country World U.K.
My next door neighbour owns a 1973 Ford Gran Torino car (similar to the one used in the Starsky and Hutch T.V. series). He informed me last week that he […]
Classic Cars in Balsall Common, U.K.
The title of this blog really came into its own today, at least the serendipity part did. I was on the return leg of my Sunday morning jog along the […]
Classic American Cars in California
My wife and I spent this year’s annual holiday in Northern California. We had visited the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas on previous occasions but we had never been […]
Kit Car Show – Stoneleigh 2011 plus Alvis Cars Centre
I went to the Kit Car Show at Stoneleigh yesterday. It has probably been more than ten years since I last went. The format hadn’t changed very much and neither […]