4th June 2018

Click for the full 2018 Tatton Park Classic Car Show Gallery

It has been a few years since I was last at the big classic car show at Tatton, so I spent a scorching Sunday walking around all manner of classics with my camera (and increasing sunbourn - ouch!).

There's always an interesting oddity or two to be seen at events like this, and Tatton was no disappointment. I never knew that Wolseley developed a series of 15 military 4x4s in 1948 until I saw the FV1801 Mudlark in a corner.

22nd November 2017

I heard from Andrew who recognised the TVR Vixen I photographed at the Bicester Heritage Sunday Scramble in October 2016.

He writes:

Hi, I owned this particular Vixen S3 in 1986.
It was black with a black interior back then.
It was unusual because it had a glass rear window.

I didn't know that some came with glass rear windows, I need to look in to this more closely.

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13th September 2017

Phil Holden emailed recently to tell me about his Volvo estate after seeing my photos from the Retro Rides Gathering.

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20th August 2017

A trip to Shelsley Walsh for the highlight of the Retro Car calendar.

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After a bright early start (for a Sunday morning anyway!) I hitched a ride in the back of the Sambasaurus over to the Shelsley Walsh hillclimb track for the annual Retro Rides gathering.

It's always a special event, the sort of show where you've just no idea what you'll find. You can walk past what you assume to be a relatively standard old car, only to find it later on with the bonnet up and some unlikely and improbable power plant grafted in. A Ford 100e with a Nissan RB26 engine up front, a Vauxhall Firenza with an S14 motor, or a Hillman Imp with a BMW boxer motorcycle engine... You have to look twice at everything.

28th June 2017

Held every four years, Hessisch is heaven for vintage VW lovers.

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About an hour from Hannover, Germany, the small town of Hessisch Oldendorf hosts an amazing gathering of vintage aircooled Volkswagens every four years. From the very early KDF-Wagen prototypes to super rare coachbuilt cabriolets, taking in all manner of oddities and autojumble delights along the way, there's a lot to see over the course of the event.

18th January 2017

Barney wrote to me with some past history of this gorgeous Maserati.

I just did a google on this plate, on a whim, and found your pic from the 2009 NEC Classic Show.

7th January 2017

KBN366, The History

In October last year I visited a Bicester Heritage Sunday Scramble for the first time. I highly recommend a visit if you ever get the chance, it was a real treat to see a fascinating range of diverse old vehicles in such wonderful surroundings. You can see my photos here.

One car I paid particular attention to was an interesting little Connaught racer. I don't know much about them so it was great to recently receive an e-mail from the current owner who filled me in with more detail than I could have ever hoped for!

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