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Check out this absolutely stunning 1987 Lotus Esprit Turbo HC up for sale with online classic car auctioneer, The Market. The auction runs till Monday 13th April at 7:30pm and there’s no reserve. It’s estimated to fetch £40,000-50,000.
I think I need to start a crowd fund to help me buy this!
Continue reading “Limited edition 1987 Lotus Esprit Turbo HC up for auction”You can either only use your car for essential journeys or not at all – how can you look after it whilst it’s not being used? I reveal the best tips and advice in this video. Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this.
I had been thinking about the impact of the COVID-19 Coronavirus on the values of classic cars, and then today I had an email from West Coast Shipping that confirmed my own suspicions. So is this the time to be buying your dream classic online? Watch the video now!
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Automotive experience company TrackDays.co.uk has put out a list of the top-three most popular cars from 80s TV shows that people choose to drive. This was based on the number of bookings it received to drive its range of TV cars.
Continue reading “The most popular 80s TV cars to drive”In this video I try to work out how many lives could be saved by the reduction in car use around the world due to the lockdown. It’s pretty staggering, but potentially there are lot more lives that will be saved due to another side-effect of the lockdown. Could they actually outweigh the tragic loss of lives the pandemic is causing? It might need better mathmaticians / statisticians / research analysts than me to figure it out though.
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In Dubai, UAE, around 2012 I shot this beautiful 1969 Chevrolet Camaro belonging to Khalid Bin Hadher of Performance Garage for featuring to go on the Motoring Middle East website. He later resprayed it to yellow and soon I’ll post up another feature we did with it then – stay tuned.
Continue reading “Why the 1969 Camaro was the best Chevy ever”
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March 28th this year (2020) saw the 10th anniversary of Geely’s acquisition of storied Swedish car maker, Volvo. It bought the brand from Ford in 2010 for $1.8bn. The Chinese firm Geely, which itself was established in 1986 and only got into Automotive towards the end of the last century in 1997, then left Volvo to get on and do what it does best – build amazingly practical, solid and safe automobiles.
Continue reading “We’ll all be driving Geelys Soon! Here’s why”
Here’s a Vauxhall film made around 20 years ago which shows the breadth of Vauxhall’s heritage and its sporting endeavour. It was resent out today with a press release series remembering the manufacturer’s past iconic cars. Today was the turn of the Vauxhall C-10 ‘Prince Henry’ dubbed ‘The World’s First Sports Car’.
Continue reading “Vauxhall made ‘The World’s First Sports Car’”
