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Pirelli Classic Marathon (’89-’92)

In 2013 the Pirelli Classic Marathon celebrated its 25th anniversary and fittingly with the original sponsor providing the backing. To find out more we bought [Read More]

2012 Castle Combe Autumn Classic

No doubt encouraged by the success of the Goodwood Revival and Silverstone Classic this year Wiltshire (UK) based circuit Castle Combe held its own Autumn Classic. A day very well [Read More]

Practical Classics – Spring 2013

Blimey, talk about a bumper issue. Practical Classics really has pulled out all the stops this month, with an issue so full of interesting articles and [Read More]

HSCC 70s Snetterton 2015

The forecast said that a thunderstorm would pass overnight to leave an overcast but dry Norfolk for the HSCC 70s Snetterton 2015 event. That only [Read More]

2014 Race Retro show at Stoneleigh Park

New Year, new resolutions and even new ambitions, time then to kick things off at Stoneleigh Park and join this year’s celebration of McLaren’s 50th [Read More]

2014 Le Mans Classic

It’s big it’s glorious and happens every other year in France, we set sail to La Sarthe to get a large dose of the 2014 [Read More]

2014 Donington Historic Festival

Our tour of UK and European classic car events big and small continues and before we sail south to France and the La Sarthe region [Read More]

Triumph TR4A Driven

Triumph’s TR range evolved very gradually from the TR2 of the early 1950’s through to the TR6 of the mid 70’s. The cars also stayed in [Read More]

Ford Capri 280 Brooklands Driven

By 1986 the Capri had already outlived its expected lifetime by three years thanks to the Cologne powered 2.8i and so when Ford discovered a [Read More]

Rolls Royce Silver Shadow Driven

Never has any car spanned the spectrum of the car buying public as much as the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow. From business mogul or even [Read More]