Race Retro 2023 Report
It’s that time of year again when all motorsport fans are looking eagerly towards the new season commencing in the Northern Hemisphere. The purpose of Race Retro is to allow […]
Austin Healeys for sale at Silverstone Auctions Race Retro Auction 2023
Race Retro brings together over 24,000 fans, drivers and enthusiasts at the start of the competition calendar for a weekend of all things motorsport. As the show’s official auction partner for […]
Calcott Motor Car Company – Coventry -1886 – 1926
Once again, a Pre-War Cars newsletter, published in December, is the inspiration for this article. In its pages, I saw a Calcott car for sale. I was unfamiliar with that […]
British Motor Museum – Collections Centre Open Evening – Report
On Tuesday evening 10th January, CSI sent two team members to cover the British Motor Museum’s Collection Open Evening. Unforeseen circumstances almost meant that they didn’t get to the event […]
1953 Healey Abbott
Here is a little, post-Christmas 2022, light reading for classic car enthusiasts in general and Healey enthusiasts in particular – Click on this image to be taken to a ‘Cars […]
Steve Thomton’s “Hot Rod” Austin Healey 3000
Recently (6 Dec. 2022) a friend sent me a link to an article first published in 2013 and reproduced in the December 2022 Classic Motorsport Magazine Newsletter. I am reproducing it […]
Chrysler in England
Introduction Being interested in automotive history is like having a “gift that keeps on giving” some new information turns up on a regular basis. Of course, the information isn’t new […]
Gaydon Gathering September 2022
I had the privilege of attending the September Gaydon Gathering and was blown away by the wide range of interesting and even rare cars on display. Whoever it was who […]
Old Ford Rally – British Motor Museum 2022
As a supporter of the Rootes Archive Centre Trust (RACT) my main reason for being at Gaydon on Sunday 17 July 2022 was to attend the inaugural Rootes Heritage Day, […]
Rootes Heritage Day at the British Motor Museum Gaydon 2022
This was the first Rootes Heritage Day to be held at the British Motor Museum (BMM), I hope that it will become an annual event, the excellent turnout today certainly suggests […]