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The Carchive: The Peugeot 309
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I didn’t quite get this ready in time for the usual Friday slot, so let’s use our 13:30 Monday lunch break to fix that puncture on the bicycle of discovery and head out for a muddy scramble along the bridleway of motoring history. The Lion goes from strength to strength. A couple of weeks ago…
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The Carchive: '93 Mercury Cougar XR7
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Where I’m sitting, we’re done for another workday week. The sticky, polyester 9-5 shirt and tie are coming off, the pipe bowl is being stuffed with rough shag and a favourite tipple is being poured into a lead crystal glass, with perhaps a few chips of ice to add a little decorative frost. And to…
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Look How Good A Driver I Am!
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Increasingly often I find myself sitting in traffic transfixed by the mesmerising sequence you see in the image above. Yes, for a little while now, and obviously drawing inspiration from Ford products of the 1960’s, Audi have been fitting certain models with sequential tail indicator lamps. This, in itself, isn’t anything new. What is worth…
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V.I.S.I.T: (KE20) Toyota Corolla Wagon
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The other day we spent a while admiring the perseverance of somebody who keeps an ’81 Cadillac Eldorado alive and in pristine condition, despite living in Iceland, not a country which The Firm With The Duck Spangled Crest has ever held as their number one target. But then again, driving around in the reddest, shiniest…
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Bargain Corner#1: '95 Citroen Xantia
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With everybody being urged to eat healthily to kerb an obesity crisis, cars are currently selling markedly better than hotcakes in the UK. With credit being so readily available the dealership order-books are bulging and suppliers are struggling to keep up with demand. This is great news for the economy. It’s great news for the…
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V.I.S.I.T: V8/6/4 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
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I still possess a swipe card for the JR metro system in Tokyo, a worthless artefact I keep only because I’m unlikely to ever own another one. People hang on to all kinds of weird old shit, with sentimentality being the main reason. Car preservation is a whole ‘nother topic for discussion, it’s thanks to…
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Diecast Delights: A Ford Model T Van in 1:18 scale
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It’s a political hot potato, it seems. 1:18th scale cars find themselves being dismissed as mere “toys”, by my wife, many of my work colleagues and (whisper it) certain members of this esteemed website. Surely it’s all about context? Give a six-year-old a CMC Maserati Birdcage and it’ll be launched down the stairs as if…
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Diecast Delights: A 1952 Citroen 2CV in 1:18 Scale
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We’ll go from last week’s extreme Crocodile to a rather more mundane Tin Snail, and a vehicle which is probably far more relevant to the everyday motorist while being far less colourful. We’re looking at a Maisto produced Citroen 2CV, probably among the the most humble yet worthy vehicles to be made available in 1:18…
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The Carchive: The Ford L-Series
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It’s time once again to take a deep breath, put a clothes peg on our collective nose and make our way into the foetid, rancid swamp of the automotive past, before plunging our arms into the thick, treacly gloop and pulling out whatever slimy artefact we find. Welcome back to The Carchive. For this week’s…
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Diecast Delights: An Opel Ascona (B) i2000
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As has been mentioned here before, my favourite 1:18 models tend to be of ordinary, everyday cars, albeit those which no longer feature on the road prominently enough to still be in the collective conscious of the general public. A case in point is the second generation Opel Ascona, a car which, seemingly bizarre in…
