Heynes’ original idea for the XJ project in the early ’60s was to create a four-door, four-seat E-type, a low-slung sports saloon that would take the fight to the Europeans in the ’70s and recapture ...
With VW committed to the concept of a front, transverse engine and front-wheel-drive platform (it had already acquired an early Fiat 128 and taken it back to component form for inspiration), ...
Then again, the fact that there's a revolving XKSS at the heart of this impressive space, and that it also contains a pair of XJ220s, does rather confuse the issue; you half expect the cars to be ...
The process started in 2010 and, inevitably, the rot was worse than it first appeared. A lot of new metal was needed, including floors, rear quarters, inner rear arches, one complete rear wing and ...
Few automotive reunions are as poignant, and we are the first to capture the moment. That both the 1904 Darracq 10/12hp, aka ‘Genevieve’, and the 1905 Spyker 12/16hp Double Phaeton alongside it were ...
With a waiting period of two months, buyers paid the list price without hesitation, which was unusual for the deal-hungry American public. Above all else, the immediate appeal of the Sting Ray was the ...
At the height of the 2020 COVID shutdown, my attention turned to the online auction sites. Datsun Zs had become a staple on Bring a Trailer, often nut-and-bolt rebuilds or low-mileage time capsules.
Though superior in conception and quality to many of its homespun ilk, his little coupé – the first of 200 BMC-engined Gilbern GTs – was never intended as an uncompromising work of Lotus-style ...
John worked jobbing engineering contracts in 1919, but by 1920 he was ready to make his first car, named Alvis in part as a reference to its aluminium pistons – the Latin vis means strength. Both the ...
Come the ’90s, though, and both began to develop ideas above their station. Over at Hethel plans were finally – some 20 years after release – being concocted for the integration of a V8 into its ...