Adventures in wrenching – An admission of ineptitude
RoadworkUKI'd much rather be driving my cars than working on them. To be brutally honest, I only own my own…
The Carchive: The 1973 Vauxhall Magnum
The 2018 World Cup is now in full swing, so I've decided to mark it in my own special style…
When toys are wasted on kids.
Kids, eh? Today's young'uns have no idea that we used to sit around boxes with curved-glass fronts, which flickered away…
The Carchive: The SEAT Marbella
It's been a while since we last held our collective noses and descended into our dark cavern of decay to…
Gonna get myself armrested
Rear wheel drive. A close ratio, six speed manual gearbox. A flat-plane crank V8, twin turbocharged but with so little…
A taste of the future, in a car from the past
The last time I travelled in a Citroen 2CV, it was right at the beginning of my driving career. I…
Nostalgia Express: The Plaxton Viewmaster
Almost five years ago, I posted about one of the buses that tool me to and fro of high school…
Woodall Nicholson Kirklees: The fat end of the wedge
Have you ever beheld a piece of obsolete technology and thought that time ought to have been kinder to it?…
Felixstowe to Ipswich run 2018: Jolly good show
So, it's Saturday night in the UK, and while families nationwide wallow in the festival of charged socio-political fireworks that…
The Carchive: The Colt (Mitsubishi) Tredia
I've looked into the psychology behind the hoarding that has lead to The Carchive being created. If it was information…