CC has covered many cars in depth, often with a keen eye for the unremarked details and with some thoughtful context, personal recollection and connection, always remembering that every car […]
CC has recently seen of the highlights from the annual classic car show held at Lytham Hall in Lancashire, England in May this year. Those earlier posts focussed on the […]
Last week, we looked at some of the cars from the British Leyland family and its descendants and ancestors at the Lytham Hall Classic Car Show back in May this […]
The classic car show and gathering season is now upon us and getting into full swing. Over here, we seen to have gone from a long drawn out spring (was […]
This weekend sees the finals of the singles at the Wimbledon Championships, at the venue that is the home to what is still officially called the All England Lawn Tennis […]
(first posted 7/13/2017) High mileage cars have featured on CC before, and there have been some surprising numbers, not least from a Fiat Brava (131 Mirafiori) and a Volvo […]
(first posted 7/4/2017) Back in March this year, fellow Curbivore Tatra87 gave us an excellent summary history of the Gordon Keeble Company and the GK1 Coupe. And yesterday, […]
(first posted 7/2/2017) Renault long played the understudy to the leading role of innovator taken by Citroen. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Citroen undisputedly was the […]
Blackpool, that most distinctive of English seaside resorts, has many special features and attractions. Not just the weather of Lancashire and the distinctive tower, modelled on the Eiffel Tower but […]
(first posted 5/23/2013) By 1961, the Rootes Group was established as one of the Big Four in the UK, along with BMC (Austin/Morris/MG/Wolseley/Riley), Ford and Vauxhall (representing GM and then […]
The UK has just had that most remarkable thing – a bright, sunny, warm public holiday weekend, over the last weekend in May. Normally, we expect rain; this year was […]
In late 1922, two young men in Blackpool, on the north west coast of England, started a business building motorcycle sidecars, named Swallow Sidecars. By 1926, the company built its […]
In Part 1 of this review, I showed some of the highlights of the UK’s Spring Alfa Day held in April, looking at the rear wheel drive cars. Here, we’ll […]
The carshow season is now opening up, and first out of the blocks, for me at least, was Spring Alfa Day at Duxford aircraft museum. An event that does exactly […]
(first posted 5/10/2017) These photos, posted on the CC Cohort by nifty43 (nifticus) and taken in Vancouver in March this year, confirm one thing, I suggest, and without much debate. The […]