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A T6 specifically designed to achieve two very disparate tasks, so to paraphrase the inimitable Monty Python...

Campervan Heroes

Stuart and Helen spent a year travelling from Morocco to Iceland in their VW T3, writing about it each week on their blog at campervanmatters.com This is their top 10 list of ‘hero’ stuff to pack for a year on the road.

A New England, Devon

The previous owner traded this bus in against a Volvo, and it appears that the dealer had no idea what it was or what to do with it.

ERF Angel

When this EC Olympic was involved in a bad accident, it was almost certainly bound for the scrapyard in the sky. Until some divine interfention…

Gee Gee G-cab

When you transport horses worth up to £1.5 million, only the best will do - and that’s exactly what Eric Gillie’s new Scania G500 is

Hue & cry

Time out at the wheel of an early Actros reveals that not a lot has changed over 23 years… apart, maybe, from more tasteful cab trim

Keeping cool

Repairing the air conditioning on his trusty Foden Alpha sees Chris Maddison get a tad hot under the collar thanks to some threads someone crossed when it was built back in 2003

Land of opportunity

Behind the success of South West Express is a heartening rags-toriches tale of immigrants to Oz, “The Lucky Country”

Light club

This Renault Range-T 460 mini-midlift is designed to maximise payload. We worked it hauling a tipper from Castle Douglas to a biomass plant in Fife

On the front line

Our veteran driver and contributor Bob has been on the road throughout the Covid-19 outbreak. He looks back over the last few months, and further back to the Winter of Discontent in 1978/9

Power up

We spend a couple of weeks with Iveco’s top-spec Stralis 570XP - possibly the best kept secret on the road right now

You're in safe hands

The way trucks are handed over to customers has had to change. Here’s what the team at Volvo did to ensure everyone stays safe

Shooting Stars

We go behind the scenes with truck photographer Tom Cunningham to get the story behind the shoots

Miller time!

CMM reader Graham Zimmatore finds a 1975 Suzuki rotary being sold by none other than Sammy Miller and restores it

Elsies at the Park!

Classic Bike Trackdays and CMM, in association with Bridgestone tyres, have a weekend of fun lined up at Cadwell Park in June.

WINTER RAFFLE WINNERS!

Time for some good news! We would heartily suggest you go in for the National Motorcycle Museum’s various raffles as you can win BIG!

Yamaha TX750 part 4 Fork foibles!

Mark is checking out the forks and brakes of his latest purchase. What does he find?

BMW R1150 GS

A real globe-trotting motorcycle that handles even Blighty’s blighted roads with ease. Check out BMW’s 1150 GS…

The ‘C' word!

With the boss about to go have fun on one of Nick Crocker’s bikes (ex-Steve Hislop YZF750) at Sywell.

Pressing Times!

Our Allen gets himself pressed into action to sort out his crankshaft.

Crash course!

With pre-testing and the opening CB500 round under their belts it was time for some schooling for our Fast Berks, a lesson via the school of hard knocks!

Being bore-ing…

A tool that few people I know own is a borescope. The medical boys have used them for years and yes, I’ve suffered ‘that’ indignity before you ask!

Coping With Covid-19

The coronavirus has changed things big time – but how has our industry/hobby been coping and what’s the outlook for the future?

Back in Black

Whilst most people convert a bus into a camper, Dave O’Brien has taken a very different route, opting for a custom interior for his T5.1 based on a Caravelle.

Double the Fun

The Double Cab Pick Up truck joined VW’s own range of factory models in November 1958, after VW had seen the success of the double cab conversions made by Binz from 1953.

Feel the burn

Combustion technology has undergone a quiet revolution in the last decade. We look at the strategies employed to maximise thermal efficiency

VWT2OC Virtual Coffee Morning

Virtual Coffee Morning brings people together

The first of the gang

It has been 20 years since Audi first won the Le Mans 24 Hours with its now iconic R8, but the development phase of the car was anything but easy

Gentleman Jim

Road car, track car, race car. James Glickenhaus’ SCG 004C offers an affordable, driveable option for the customer GT racer

Back to the Beginnings A trip to Wolfsburg

Having previously visited Wolfsburg back in 2015, then again in 2017, we loved the place and the people so much that last year Susy and I went back again, this time for three weeks!