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Big Cat diary

This long serving Cat powered Foden 4455 has provided 22 years of reliable service over 1.5 million miles, and it’s still in great shape today

Anglo Italian

This Scania 143 is originally from Italy and was bought and customised for the British and European show circuit

WHEEL MEET AGAIN… AT THE CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW!

This year’s Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show with Discovery will be a little different from previous years; however the organisers are keen to emphasise how they’re bringing a show to the classic car community that we all know and love in a safe and controlled environment.

Square appeal

GM’s distinctive 1973-87 pick-ups are becoming ever more desirable and for good reason.

THRUXTON THRILLER

Classic Sports Car Club Meeting

ELEVATING AN EXOTIC

Ford adds more power and new livery options to its ultra-exclusive hyper car...

LONE STAR SURVIVOR

After 35 years in a bone-dry bit of Texas, this beautiful ’57 Bel Air came to the UK, where it still retains an impressive mix of beauty and originality.

Oldsmobile Thor

We all know what a jaw-dropper the first-generation Oldsmobile Toronado was when it was first unveiled in 1966; but there was an even more incredible version of this car.

CLASSIC AMERICAN PEOPLE: Dave Kindig

Steve Havelock meets Dave Kindig of Bitchin’ Rides TV show fame…

COLONEL MUSTARD

Steve Willsone has been a panel beater all his life and runs a paint and body shop, so when he decided to rebuild this 1932 Ford three-window coupe, he set himself very high standards of fit and finish.

California Dreamboat

Stuart Holmes may be familiar to many as the face of the famous American car show Stars & Stripes, which usually takes place in July at Tatton Park in Cheshire. But he’s also got an eye for some very tasty morsels when it comes to American classics, like this ’68 Pontiac Catalina…

2005 Chevy SSR

Debuting at the 2000 Detroit Auto Show as a concept vehicle, the SSR very much hails from what we might look back on as a golden era in the late Nineties/early Noughties when retro-styled concepts went from unveiling to full-blown production in very short periods of time.

IT LIVES AGAIN!

REGULAR READERS MAY ALREADY KNOW THE STORY OF THIS BIKE(WELL, IN ITS FORMER GUISE ANYWAY), BUT WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THE RESULT OF ME PLOUGHING INTO AN AUDI AT 70 ON THE M25...

Bling!

PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CUSTOM SCENE COMMERCIALLY ARE OFTEN VERY GOOD AT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF TRENDS IN BIKE STYLES, AND ADAPTING THEM TO SUIT WHAT THEY DO BEST. TRIKE DESIGN, DOWN IN DEEPEST, DARKEST (WELL, SOMETIMES) WALES, ARE A CASE IN POINT…

STOCKER...

IT’S BEEN A VERY LONG TIME SINCE I LAST DID IT (PROBABLY AROUND 1999/2000, I SUSPECT), BUT THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT BLASTING THROUGH THE STREETS OF A CITY ABOARD A BIG, LOUD, ANTISOCIAL CHOP THAT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD TO BE ALIVE…

NCC GLOCUS & HEREFORD RUN

IN 1973 THE NATIONAL CHOPPER CLUB WAS CONCEIVED AND FORMED BY BILL GILL, PETE GAERTNER AND SYD WELLINGS WITH THE AIM OF GENERATING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN CHOPPER ENTHUSIASTS, OTHER ROAD USERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC, IMPROVING STANDARDS IN THE SAFETY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHOPPERS, AND BRING ALL CHOPPER RIDERS CLOSER TOGETHER.

DEADLINE

(NOUN) A TIME LIMIT IN THE FORM OF A DATE, ON OR BEFORE WHICH SOMETHING MUST BE COMPLETED

HARDCORE HOODLUM

AS MANY OF YOU’LL KNOW, THE RESTRICTIONS PLACED UPON THE CUSTOMISATION OF MOTORCYCLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES IS FAR MORE DRACONIAN THAN OUR OWN, WITH GERMANY PERHAPS BEING THE PRIME EXAMPLE (ALTHOUGH OTHERS’RE EVEN STRICTER).

HARD LABOUR...

AFTER MESSING ABOUT WITH MOTORCYCLES FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, I DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO ADD LOADS OF STRESS TO MY LIFE BY BUILDING MY OWN SO, ARMED WITH A DISC-CUTTER, A LARGE HAMMER, AND A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, THE PROJECT BEGAN….

BETTER THAN SOCKS...

IT TOOK ME ABOUT FIVE YEARS, YOU KNOW, TO GATHER EVERYTHING I WANTED FOR THIS BIKE AND, ONCE I HAD EVERYTHING I NEEDED, I SET MYSELF A TIME LIMIT OF BEING READY FOR MY 50th BIRTHDAY - A PRESENT TO MYSELF

All's Well That Ends Well...

I first built this bile twelve year ago... Well, I ask this bike - it didn't look quite like this. It was, at first, ared-oxide rear strutted, brat looking thing with no real direction, then I started with ncc staffordshire, and it was clear that it wasn't of the expected standard...

Suzuki Katana Long-Term Test

As you’ll know from the last few issues, or if you’ve seen the video on the bsh youtube channel, we have one of suzuki’s new katana 1000s to play with for a while. We’ve done a wee bit to it (nothing drastic, just altering it slightly to look a little more like its iconic namesake), but at some point you do have to stop spannering and actually ride…

State of flax

As Formula 1 looks to the future, a viable, sustainable and economical substitute for carbon fibre could provide multiple answers

Working smart

How a New Zealand-based engine builder is combining technologies to make small batch motorsport parts more accessible

The trouble with tyres

Cloning gives way to rubber as the major topic of conversation around F1

Swings and roundabouts

More thoughts on swing axle suspensions and the benefits of a drop snout chassis

Engineering is cool

Now we just need to convince the younger generation of that fact

Local heroes

Volkswagen Motorsport South Africa has a rich heritage of engineering racing machines for the home market and, for 2020, has developed the world’s first competition Golf 8 GTi

On the throttle

OptimumG’s data master expands our knowledge of data analysis techniques

Last dance

This is the final Le Mans of the LMP1 era, and it will take place in the strangest of circumstances