During the middle 1970s, British Leyland offered car shoppers in North America four different two-seat convertible sports cars: the Triumph TR6, the Triumph Spitfire, the MGB and the MG Midget (the convertible version of the Triumph TR7 didn’t go on sale here until the 1979 model year). Of those four, the cheapest was always the […]
Junkyard Gem: 1956 Ford Zephyr Saloon
Henry Ford began building cars in Great Britain all the way back in 1911, when the first Model Ts came off the line in Manchester. By the 1930s, Ford Britain was assembling models designed just for the European market, leading to something of a parallel Blue Oval universe across the Atlantic. After World War II, […]
Hunting For Inspiration At VolksWorld 2023
While casually scrolling Instagram this past weekend, I came across the VolksWorld Show happening at Sandown Park in Surrey. Shortly after Google-ing the distance, I hopped in the car and went in search of inspiration for my own 1957 VW ‘Oval Window’ Beetle drag car project. Amidst the beautifully restored, immaculately presented show cars, I found the Outlaw […]
Are Modified Classics Finally Being Taken Seriously?
Out of all the different car communities in the UK, there’s one specific group of people that take themselves an awful lot more seriously than the others: British classic car enthusiasts. Track day people are engaged but nerdy; the drift guys are punk rockers that crash into each other for fun; supercar owners only talk about their own […]