One of the many highlights at the recent Everyman Classics Auction was the considerable collection of Jaguars for sale at the event, which was a part of the Warwickshire Collection. The majority of the cars were in various stages of recommissioning, but some, such as this Lynx Eventer XJ-S conversion, seemed to be in good […]
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Like many others, I’ve been catching up on old films over the last year, and it’s always a bit of fun to ‘car spot’. In no particular order, I’ve collated 10 cars that have made appears in 10 well-acclaimed British films. First up is Jack Carter’s MK2 Cortina featured in ‘Get Carter’. Registered in Newcastle,
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Rooting around in Reallylouds photo archives looking for doppelgängers of TV cars, has uncovered a whole feast of cars that would be the source of interest to visitors to this site. Cars are often used today, as a statement to define the character but originally cars were simply props, but cleverly used to help promote
1975 was not a good year for buying a new car, the energy crisis still cast a gloomy outlook and inflation pushed prices up as demand slumped. But there was a prospect of improvement on the horizon, which was relayed by the confident choice of new cars announced for 1975. We’ve picked 10 middle to
The year 2000 offered some tantalising options if you wanted to buy a 200bhp+ 10-year-old sports car for less than 10K. These top-end coupes offered a refinement yet outright brute force and as long as it had service history, yet to become a liability. The Quattro was in its final throes but the car had
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Supercars. It’s telling that the alternative to buying one of these cars when they were current would actually be buying a house! However, to keep abreast of the extraordinary costs of maintenance and upkeep, it’s clear that you couldn’t take it to your local mechanic, and in many cases, the parts availability are not exactly
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