The late 1980s and early 1990s were what I call my Road & Track years.
I’d eagerly await my copy in the mailbox, happy in the knowledge that I would have another of Peter Egan’s Side Glances to devour, deep in the knowledge that Peter knew what I was going through as I grappled with one restoration after another. Those were the Italian car years of my misspent youth, self-inflicted punishment of putting together a Lancia Montecarlo followed by a basket case of a Lamborghini, a car so underdeveloped that I could almost see Sant’Agata Bolognese’s legendary test driver Valentino Balboni shrugging his shoulders when confronted with the antics of the company’s baby bull, the Urraco.
Those were the years where parking a project car in the family driveway (sloping) would be met with banshee wails and threats of self-immolation from occupants of the house. An aerial survey of my parents’ front lawn will reveal skeletal remains of two ladder frame chassis – that of a Triumph Spitfire Mk2 and an Austin A40 Special, a race car built at Borneo Motors’ Austin facility in Singapore in 1953 for its then sales manager. 500 years down the road, archaeologists will rewrite history and claim that they’d discovered a sophisticated twin-chassis classic predating Colin Chapman’s Lotus 88.
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The Ghost In The Machine
Co-founder of The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best, Christian Philippsen, spoke at the recent award ceremony in Carmel, California.
Cars Of The Club
1958 Riley One-Point-Five
Duncan's D
In 1948, Jaguar launched the XK 120 at the London Motor Show.
Diary Of A Petrol Head
The annual pilgrimage to Monterey
Tales From The Far East Masalat
The MG Car Company dropped the use of overhead camshaft cylinder heads with the introduction of the MG TA in 1936.
Vampires Without Coffins
The late 1980s and early 1990s were what I call my Road & Track years.
One In A Billion
Rarity of another kind Meet the only Porsche 356 in India
Heraldite
Excellent bonding of British engineering and Italian design
Singing In The Rain
No dampened spirits at The Goodwood Revival