Reviews 30 Jun 2016 A Bentley designed for fly fishing I’ll tell you what, we all dodged a bullet with socialists not getting into power in our great country in what passed for an election this month
Reviews 01 May 2016 7 Series: BMW pulling our (timing) chains Now I know you are expecting the on-the-spot reports from the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique and the Boite de Merde Ralley Mackay. Unfortunately, we have had to carry those over to next week because there are some car companies we need to put in the naughty corner
Reviews 31 Mar 2016 My Ford Falcon BA ute is no GT40 Gulf/Mirage Lightweight Now on the long list of mistakes I have made and tried to blame on team member and sub-editor Mark Southcott, continually telling you the Corvair was made by Ford ranks pretty high.
Reviews 29 Feb 2016 Peter Brock’s 1977 Spa 24-Hour Vauxhall Firenza Magnum 2300 coupe: bring it home The fact last week’s London Classic Car Show was held at the ExCel London, which was built on the site of the Royal Docks and is now owned by the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, says it all
Reviews 31 Dec 2015 Forget Ferraris and Lambos, look out for Toyota, Intermeccanica I was on my second PBJ & Bacon Burger at Rehab Burger Therapy on 2nd Street in Scottsdale, Arizona, not far from Scottsdale Fashion Square where Dave Gooding is having his auction in a few weeks
Reviews 31 Dec 2015 Hi-Tech Drift School: thrills on the slide I hope you had a thrill for Christmas. You know, a swim with crocodiles, dolphins, sharks, silverfish or sky diving, bungy diving, jet fighter flying, V8 driving, rally driving or radical driving
Reviews 31 Oct 2015 Ferrari 488, F430, Dino GT: how best to buy your supercar Just imagine you had some good news. Ferrari Sydney boss Angelo Ruberto calls to say your new $500,000 Ferrari 488 GTB, which wasn’t meant to turn up until 2017, is in the Alexandria showroom, ready to go. But you just sold your old Fezzer F430 quicker than you thought thro...
Reviews 31 Oct 2015 Classic Jags: D-type; XK150; racing Mark II; XK 5.0 Supercharged V8 R-S GT Spare a thought for Billy Walmsley. Billy and Willy Lyons set up the Swallow Sidecar Company 93 years ago. But Bill didn’t have the same ambition as his partner and left the company just before it became Jaguar, so he could have more time building his model trains. Willy ch...
Reviews 30 Sep 2015 Ford GT 40s, Eckland’s Mini Cooper among classics at Ascot Everything in London costs a million quid. Ride on the tube? A million quid. Bangers and mash? A million quid. Walk past Betty Windsor’s palace? A million quid
Reviews 30 Sep 2015 Old Jag heaven So the new owners of Jaguar rang me and said “John (they call me that because its my name) we have a problem. All our new cars are fine but we have a warehouse full of these old ones.
Reviews 30 Sep 2015 Chev Corvette, ‘66 Ford Fairlane lead Las Vegas sales While you’ve been obsessed with reading about VWgate, Fiat Chryslergate, F1Melbournegate (suddenly changing the race date) and lobby group T&E’s test showing that new cars, including the Mercedes A, C and E-Class, BMW 5 Series and Peugeot 308, are guzzling 50 per ...
Reviews 30 Sep 2015 Volkswagen EPA emissions scandal: diesel dead as a dodo “Over the past few weeks, much has been written about alleged problem areas and improvements that need to be made. Ladies and gentlemen, please don’t be fooled. Let me put it clearly: we know what we have to do in our large, global group. And we started doing it some ...