Rootes Group Cars at the NEC

During the 1950’s, ’60s and 70s, the U.K. car market was dominated by four major groups, two American and two British. In terms of market share they ran in this […]

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 […]

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 Nov ’18

HEALEY AND OTHER FINE CARS NEWS BULLETIN NOVEMBER 2018 On Friday 9th November I made my annual trip to the Classic Car Show, sponsored by Lancaster Insurance, at the National Exhibition Centre […]