LANCASTER CLASSIC CAR NEWS
DO YOU REMEMBER – THE MOBIL ECONOMY RUN?
If you happened to glance at the Radio Times or similar publication some 57 years ago, you might well have read the following startling announcement:
50 YEARS OF THE ESCORT
One of my favourite automotive brochures of the 1960s features a very disgruntled looking Hugh Futcher (Carry On support actor, panicking Sapper in Quatermass & The Pit and more recently the star of a Specsavers ad) aboard a pedal car.
THREE TOPPING TOYS
Put simply; these are three toys – or pastimes if you prefer – that should grace the home of any automotive enthusiast -
Spring bargains: the classics to hunt down at low prices
Revealed: five great classic cars to buy and enjoy during the spring months. You’ll be amazed at how far your money will go if you buy well
NEWSREELS OF THE WEEK – SIR STIRLING MOSS
The recent news that Sir Stirling Moss ‘will finally retire, so that he and my mother can have some much deserved rest and spend more time with each other and the rest of the family’ prompted me (and, I suspect, countless years) to re-watch the footage of his racing career.
No More Little Chef?
As I write this piece, there are any number of online reports that once-familiar sight on our roads is going the way of the RAC telephone box, the AA salute and police Wolseleys with bells – the Little Chef.
DO YOU REMEMBER – THE WARTBURG KNIGHT?
Great automotive myths of our time No.693 – all cars from the former Soviet Bloc were laughably antiquated.
Humdrum family favourites from yesteryear – how to save one
Now that once-ordinary saloons are now utterly retro and desirable, we give some tips on how to find a family-favourite classic that’s worth rescuing from extinction.
WHAT IS YOUR NUMBER ONE CLASSIC?
I have a theory, which may well be entirely inaccurate, that your favourite classic is frequently dictated by seeing it on screen while at an impressionable age. For some, it was watching a Polar White Ford Escort RS2000 Mk. II speed through Buckinghamshire with a perm-haired CI5 agent at the wheel and for others it was the Jaguar S-Type coming to grief in the pre-titles sequence of Stoppo Driver, one of the finest episodes of The Sweeney.
60 YEARS OF THE AUSTIN GIPSY
During the 1970s and 1980s, you might have encountered a well-used off-roader that, from a distance, at any rate, resembled a Series II Land Rover. On closer scrutiny, it turned out to be the far rarer Austin Gipsy, the British Motor Corporation’s highly ambitious bid for the 4x4 market.
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