Allan Dick is about to become a Skoda owner . . . Skoda is a brand that’s struggled to overcome a dim, dark period in its history when Czechoslovakia was in the grips of Communist rule and the cars that were produced were low-tech to the point of being primitive and were the butt of […]
Tag: Classic
These are two quite famous and historic motor racing shots that show how misleading still photographs can be. The first was taken in the first British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1948. On lap 23 Geoffrey Ansell driving this prewar ERA B-Type lost control, went into a wild slide, the tyres dug in and the […]
It this age of sterility, it’s difficult to imagine the sense of anticipation there used to be leading up to the first race meeting of each season. Were all of the between-season rumours true? Had Scott Jacobsen really imported a new Shelby Mustang, how was Johnny Black going to go? He was the kid who […]
I saw an Australian Morris Major yesterday. I also saw a Morris Major Elite! Two Morris Majors in the one day and in the same place. It’s easy to be cynical about BMC in this period as the company had tentatively pushed the self-destruct button, putting in place a slow-moving chain of events that would […]
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