Vegantune’s version, the evocatively named (but largely meaningless) Evante, was more true to type, rejecting modern developments such as anti-lock brakes and fuel injection in favour of rorty ...

The idea of two stylish open-top sports cars entering this chaos and making it through to production appeared to be an almost impossible ambition. Yet the Fiat Barchetta and Alfa Romeo 916 Spider ...

It was a messy end to the relationship, but the birth of one of the most fascinating, often baffling, motoring stories. The entire Monteverdi marque is shrouded in a certain amount of mystery, ...

This was not a car evolved with the ruthless calculation underpinning, say, a Ford Cortina. Yet it had a coherent logic of its own, both aesthetically and commercially. Tying the proportions of the ...

Born in 1938, Jankel was brought up in the East End of London. His father, Alexander, ran a wholesale clothing business, and there was an assumption that Bob would join its ranks when he was old ...

At the time he owned a Bristol 404, an elegant coupé whose rear wings had small fins, vestiges of the 450’s, and it was through enthusiastic research that Boré discovered the 450 Le Mans. Of the four ...

Though superior in conception and quality to many of its homespun ilk, his little coupé – the first of 200 BMC-engined Gilbern GTs – was never intended as an uncompromising work of Lotus-style ...

Rather than nodding to the Jensen-Healey, the S-V8 appears to take its cues from the Austin-Healey 100. There’s that distinctive front grille, the profile, and the works-style wing vents. The body ...

Having spent 30 years squirrelling away new-old-stock parts – he even found a set of original, unused Dunlop RS5 crossply tyres that had not seen the light of day since the early 1970s – Bridges was ...

You might think the purchase of the Nissan would be a lesson learned, but it only fuelled the fire and my next buy was a ‘track modified’ 1984 Volvo 240 – which ...

Alongside the similarly shaped Lancia Flavia Super Sport, Fiat 125 GTZ and Volvo 142 GTZ, the Rover 2000TCZ was one of the ...

Young car-spotters might have known them best either from copies of their Ladybird or Observer’s books, or from the TV, where – in a time when cars had a look that defined their country of origin – ...