An Alfa Romeo 4WD off road vehicle? Some will struggle to wrap their head around this seemingly contradictory concept. Perhaps that’s how the car earned itself the nickname the “Matta” which is Italian for “mad” or…
Alfa Romeo 1900 M
Hustler 6 ‘in Wood’
William Towns is most well known for his design work for Aston-Martin in creating the wedge shaped Aston-Martin Lagonda that in some respects looks like the sort of thing Giorgetto Giugiaro might have designed, it bearing…
Land Rover Series IIA Estate
I have a lot of affection for Land Rovers having owned a long wheelbase Series IIA which had been an army survey team vehicle and a Series III Safari Station Wagon similar to the Land Rover…
AEC Regal Motor Coach
The AEC buses and trucks became the iconic British commercial vehicles of the pre-war and post-war periods. As I was living in England in the fifties and sixties it was one of those classic post box…
Ferves Ranger
It has been described as the cutest 4WD on planet Earth. There’s just something about the Italians that seems to enable them to inject oodles of personality into their cars and the Ferves Ranger is one…
1954 Land Rover Series I
The Land Rover Series 1 is the post war East Africa safari car. It’s the “Anti-Christ” of the movie “The God’s Must Be Crazy”. This is Britain’s answer to the American Jeep and, in this first…
