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The new edition to the Alfa Romeo 1750, could make your life that bit easier, with its brand new incorporated Lavazza coffee machine, shown off at this weekends Goodwood Festival of Speed. As of tomorrow, this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed based in West Sussex is to play host to some of the most prestigious [...]
Everyone loves a good classic car, whether they own one themselves, or have seen them progress through family history, but what about the factories that created them? Are they still standing? What iconic classic cars did they manufacture? Well today’s posts looks back into the history of the infamous factories that created the most precious [...]
In April of this year, the New Year budget was released – boring for the most of us. However, within the new 2014 budget there were sections which would relate to all classic car collectors – car tax exemptions. The new exemption rulings from the VED state that any car produced before 1st January 1974 [...]
The Hindustan Ambassador – formally known as the British Morris Oxford – has been decommissioned. The last Ambassador was announced off the production line on Saturday, it was one of India’s most well loved iconic cars which were used to ferry commuters and prime ministers alike. The decision to “throw in the towel” was [...]
Historics will host the auction of a classic Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider next week, guaranteeing plenty of interest and intrigue. The 1960s concours Spider was one of 17,000 made during the production run of the models eleven year stay at a factory in Milan but the precise detail has little resonance with the fact that [...]
Classic cars are becoming a hobby for many car enthusiasts: simply buy a car, restore it, put in storage and enjoy through the summer months. Over the last few years an increasing number of collectors have been attending auctions and outbidding each other on internet auctions to grab what could be a rare make or [...]
In recent years the classic automotive world has seen a huge boom in prices for models of all makes, especially those limited edition vehicles. Below is a brief “how-to” has been put together to help establish what makes a classic car more valuable than other models. Condition/State The state of a car can determine [...]
It has been 50 years since the howl of the Blue Bird has been heard and now after 2,000 man hours of rebuilding and restoring, the world land speed record-breaker’s 17.6 litre V12 engine can roar proudly once again. At 350hp on September 25th 1924, Sir Malcolm Campbell attacked the Pendine Flats, Wales, at 146.16 [...]
To help eradicate those January blues the Vintage Sports Car Club are once again opening the entry for their New Year test drives at Brooklands Museum. In the past, the event has attracted many enthusiasts both competitors and spectators and backed by the historic setting of Brooklands, the home of British Motorsport and Aviation, this [...]
This year we saw an amazing collection of cars light up the streets on the London to Brighton Veteran Run 2013. The Saturday Concours in Regent Street was open to all whilst vehicles since the dawn of motoring, along with their delighted owners, proudly kicked the run off on the 3nd November. Close to 400 [...]
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