Imagination. It can deem you a dreamer with no grasp on reality. Or it can classify you as a high aiming individual for whom the sky is the limit. Imagination may also give birth to creativity, tickle success from the jaws of failure and spawn wonderful plots for films, novels and soap operas. And occasionally […]
Mike’s Citroen DS Love Affair I once had to forget how to drive so I could drive…Confused? Bienvenue la Citroen DS! I first saw a DS in the film Scarface. Al Pacino’s gangster character Tony Montana was set the task of blowing one up, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it. Not because he fell […]
Top 10 Rules to keep your classic car electrical system in top condition. I have mentioned before that classic car maintenance is like a religion and the fixes and checks we perform are the rituals for practicing this religion. Occasionally one needs the aid of a priest. And once in a while we must turn […]
When my friend Tim told me he had an Abarth on order I must confess I didn’t really know what to expect – a new shape Fiat 500 with go faster stripes perhaps? Go faster stripes that warranted a four month lead time to take delivery? I didn’t get it. Exactly four months and two […]
Nissan. The people that gently sprinkled the Micra upon us and landed bombshells in the form of the Skyline GTR series…. and still found time to give us the Nissan Figaro! My first thought when I spotted this tiny little convertible, presented in pink and white, was…”if Hello Kitty was real, this is what she would be driving”. And I never ever […]
Growing up at the car club, it was not uncommon for a car to appear in front me that I had never seen in the flesh before. This little red original Fiat 500 was no exception. Before then I only knew of Luigi from Disney Pixar’s Cars film. It was so small! How could anybody fit in […]
Mike’s talks about why he loves the 1970s Aston Martin V8 ‘Vantage Spec’. Have you ever experienced something in life and not wanted it to end? I have. After only ten minutes behind the wheel it dawned on me that my life would revert back to being Aston Martin V8 Vantage spec-less at the end of this journey. No […]
Follow Us Mike talks about his first encounter with a Lamborghini Espada and how it captured his heart. The phone rang…. Not unusual for a Friday afternoon. But one thing stood out. The chap on the other end of the line sounded extremely calm and fulfilled, like he had achieved something grand and was now […]
Follow Us I remember the first time I saw the little Austin Healey Frog Eye my immediate reaction was I am going to look silly driving that. It was so small, cute, loveable, not very fast or powerful, the roof was a faff to assemble and thus it was all the things that I avoid like the plague with […]
Follow Us Mike talks about how to maintain your classic car to keep it running smooth and in tip top condition. Just like regular pets, our mechanical pets need more and more attention paid to their health as they age. Equally just like a new born pup, a new car requires frequent checks until it […]
In this article Mike talks about the beautiful and legendary BMW M3 E46. You may recall that I claimed in a previous blog a few days ago that the Jensen C-V8 made me feel like a man. A gentleman to be exact. A sophisticated powerful and stylish fellow. I also shared my secret that Jenny […]
Follow Us In this blog I’m going to talk about the merits of upgrading from an older positive earth dynamo system to a negative earth alternator… So in the ongoing quest to maintain power, some hold this demeanor with their interactions with others, some strive for this under the bonnet of their beloved motor car. […]
Follow Us Being true to my status as a “Playstation Baby” I didn’t really know what a Jensen was. The Interceptor I knew of briefly, but a Jensen C-V8? Is that not a type of battery for a watch? They say that love strikes when you least suspect it and it did indeed do just that. My […]
