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Carchive: The 1966 Renault 16
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Here’s a debate worth having: what did the major car producing nations contribute during the 1960s, really? Here’s my take on it in really broad strokes. Britain? Well, there were two areas that the UK had a firm grip on; posh stuff and cheap stuff. The middle ground, the kind of stuff that families drove…
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The Carchive: 1991 Saab 900
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It’s been a while since we last put the TV on mute, signed out of social media and drew the curtains to prevent the modern world from getting in, and turned our attention to the cosy, familiar and occasionally embarrassing past. So far, dredging the murky depths of The Carchive has brought up the Saab…
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The Carchive: The 1974 Bedford Blitz
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It’s Friday, and as the weekend approaches with the promise of fun, excitement and joviality, lets take one last gasp of dry, educational tedium. An opportunity to open our collective minds, feed our curiosity and wonder how we did without our new-found knowledge for so long. Welcome back to The Carchive. Sprechen sie Deutsche? Well,…
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The Carchive: TH!NKCity EV
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It’s hot out there. Really, really hot. What better than to dive under shelter and relax with a cool, refreshing blast from the past? It’s time to grit our teeth and pull something from the lucky tombola of motoring history. Last time we prodded a stiff corpse from the past, it was the British Vauxhall…
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The Carchive: The 1973 Vauxhall Magnum
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The 2018 World Cup is now in full swing, so I’ve decided to mark it in my own special style by pretending it’s not happening. Perhaps you’ll join me? “Magnum” is an astoundingly popular name in the automotive world. We’ve seen it before in car form with the Dodge Magnum, we’ve encountered it in articulated…
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The Carchive: The Colt (Mitsubishi) Tredia
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I’ve looked into the psychology behind the hoarding that has lead to The Carchive being created. If it was information I sought, there are infinite alternative sources I could have turned to. The Internet, for one – books, for another. I turn to the latter whenever I seek a fresh perspective on things: In many…
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The Carchive: The 1977 Toyota Celica
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The surfaces of the day have been dusted and the floor of time has been vacuumed – but what’s lurking under the ornamental rug of history? Lets lift up a corner and peek into the dusty darkness to see what horrors crawl out. Welcome back to The Carchive. Oh, the Toyota Celica. Beloved of spoilt…
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The Carchive: The 1967 Humber Sceptre
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It’s Tuesday evening where I am, some way beyond our usual appointment with the musty pages of motoring past, so let’s get straight down to business. The Rootes Group is late and relatively unlamented, given its fascinating history and the diverse range of products it churned out. Its constituent brands included Hillman, Singer and Sunbeam,…
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The Carchive: The 1975 Mercedes 280 SE
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It’s nearly midnight on a Friday in the UK, and high time to let the watery moonlight of curiosity illuminate the creased pages of the past, as we once more peer at the forgotten relics of a time long since gone. Last week we spent a bit of time with the late ’70s Honda Accord,…
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The Carchive: 1978 Honda Accord
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There was a time, long before PCP deals put everybody behind the wheel of a fashion-friendly SUV, when people just wanted solid, economical, trouble-free transportation. We took a look at this era last week with the Fiat 126 of 1981, and we’re sticking to the same theme this time around. This time we’re looking at…
