Category: Classic Cars

  • Goodwood does MG

    You like motorsport and you are reasonably well off but you’re not a milionaire. You like the idea of racing but you don’t have a car. You’ve looked at historics and note that there are loads of Cobra’s, GT40s, E Types and Elans, but amongst all of them, there’s an…

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    When Sunday Comes

    Well, the first Sunday in the month that is. This day is set aside for the Car Collective’s Leighton Buzzard Cars and Coffee morning at Jackson and Phillips’ garage in Leighton Buzzard. Always a good turn out of diverse cars and this meeting was no exception. There was the young…

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    Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024

    In the late Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a super computer known as “Deep Thought” takes eons to work out the answer to life, the universe and everything. In fact it takes so long to calculate that the computer forgets the question. I suspect Douglas based…

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    Shark Nosed Corvettes

    Shark Nosed Corvettes

    I’ve been looking through some of my photographs from 2023 and inside the file for Pistons and Props at Sywell, I found one which I think, shows off the Corvette C3 in all its curvy glory. Designed by Larry Shinoda who was directed by Billy Mitchell, they’re not a car I’ve…

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    Vintage Sports Car Club New Year Tests

    A rather dull start to Sunday became a very sunny day at Brooklands in Surrey for the 2024 VSCC New Year Driving Tests.  To anyone unfamiliar with the discipline, driving tests involve threading one’s way through a series of cones in the fastest possible time. Easy, until you realise that you…