Classic Car & Restoration Show NEC 2017
I have to confess that the main reason I visited this show was to see the reconditioned, pristine, cars on display, not necessarily the ones being restored. My days of […]
Retro Warwick 2016
I believe that this was the ninth year of holding this event. To my shame as a car enthusiast and someone living within ten miles of Warwick I heard of […]
A Visit to the British Motor Museum
The former Heritage Motor Centre, created to display classic and rare British cars, was reopened in February 2016 with a new name, ‘British Motor Museum’ after a £M1.1 refurbishment. A new facility, […]
Classic Car Museum Malta
The Classic Car Museum Malta revisited – June 2018 I first visited this museum in May 2016. We were in Malta again in June 2018 so i could not resist […]
RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Auction March 2016
Here is just a small selection of the amazing cars we saw entering the RM Sotheby’s auction room on the eve of the 2016 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. You would […]
Maltby Body Works, Sandgate, Kent
This post is a little self indulgent, it has evolved from me undertaking research for earlier, Jensen related, posts and coming across one of Jensen’s 1930s coach builder competitors, Maltby […]
Avon Coachworks Warwick
This article has been produced for coachbuild.com When researching for my ‘The Jensen brothers and their cars’ blog post, I discovered that their second design, after the one based on […]
Jensen Motors – the ‘Bespoke’ period
This article was originally written for the Coachbuild.com website. If you mention Jensen to the average motor car enthusiast it is most likely that their immediate response would be ‘Interceptor’. […]
Car Auctions – Brightwells – Stondon Collection Goes To Auction
The Stondon Collection Auctioned at Brightwells Earlier this year I read that Brightells, the Leominster based Auctioneers, had been retained by the Saunders family to sell the whole contents of […]
Healey Museum NL. – First hand
Healey Museum Nl. My wife and I were in Amsterdam for a few days in April and took the opportunity to visit the Healey Museum in Vreeland. Those of you […]