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The Carchive: The E23 BMW 7 Series – In Art
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It’s Friday night, and time for our (sometimes) weekly trip on the rusty, buckled monorail of discovery, into the bleak, architecturally suspect neighbourhood of the past to see what kind of souvenirs you can get from the dank, litter strewn terminus of oblivion. Welcome back to The Carchive. Car brochures are great! I really like…
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The great Classic Car price guessing game
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Hows about we play a little game amongst ourselves? There’ll be no big cash prizes, we’re playing solely for the warm feeling of being right. I visited the 2017 London Classic Car Show over the weekend, where I saw many cars, most of which were arguably classics – and most of which were for sale.…
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Our Cars: 1995 Peugeot 306. Overcoming a failure to proceed.
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On Friday I was forced to walk some two hundred yards when our venerable Peugeot 306 threw up a variety of warning lights on the dashboard, accompanied by a loss of power. My wife was returning from a trip to visit her parents, and had almost, almost made it home when the car faltered. She…
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Economy for the single Gent: The Monthléry Peugeot 404.
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Taking time out from investigating the strange goings on with my wife’s venerable Peugeot 306, I found myself thinking back to other celebrated cars from the life of the Lion that goes from strength to strength. I encountered one such machine up close and personal at the Goodwood Festival of Speed back in 2015, so…
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A new menace: Portrait oriented eBay images
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A little before Christmas I voiced my dissent at the major skills shortage that seems to afflict users of eBay and Craigslist, particularly when it comes to taking a descriptive, informative or encouraging photo of what it is that they’re trying to sell. One point I didn’t address in that particular screed, though can no…
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V.I.S.I.T: A '75 Chevy C10 Stepside
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It gives me a warm feeling inside whenever I get confirmation that I’m not the only crank in my postcode who finds a shabby forty-year old American truck an object of desire. This ’75 Chevy C10 was ready to greet me when I popped to my local supermarket, while its owners were presumably in search…
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The Carchive: A 1987 Ford Accessories catalogue
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It’s time for our weekly trip into the sewers in which the dirty dishwater of yesterdays memories ebb and flow. With so much history swept into our drains every day, it’s up to some of us to get busy with the sieves and see if we can strain out one or two tasty morsels. Welcome…
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Rusty's Eastern European Vacation Snapz
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I’ve been off globetrotting for the last week, in that highly budget-conscious manner I’ve become so adept at. We flew out in a 737 with the most brutally constrictive seat pitch you could imagine, and then spent two days each in Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Naturally, while I should have been taking in the sights…
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Steam scaled to perfection: A 1:4 scale Atkinson Steam Wagon
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As much as I enjoy looking at the several 1:18 scale models cars in my collection, ultimately I recognise that all they can do is sit there, looking pretty. The best thing they can do is to act as a tribute to the full-size car they resemble – enough to offer you a fractional taste…
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A Classic Car show British weather can't ruin
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There are six long months to go until this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. No doubt the many local and regional car meets that naturally occur will fill some of the weekends in, but it would be nice if there could be a proper, full-scale event – one where highly tuned race behemoths can come…
