Cars

The Le Mans crash of 1955 was a wake up call for motor racing. The seriousness of that single event brought about changes that were to impact not only the 24 hours Le Mans race but…

Have you wanted an electric car but can’t afford something new? Do you have an old small car sitting in your garage gathering dust? Do you enjoy “do it yourself” projects? You can put all three…

At the beginning of the “Jet Age” in the fifties and sixties, as the U2 spyplane was developed and the British and French got together to create the Concord(e) car manufacturers decided to get into the…

The name Talbot-Lago may not be familiar to all but the Talbot marque has a long heritage dating back to 1903, and a Talbot was the first car ever to actually do 100 miles in one…

In our previous post we looked at Henry Ford’s plan to create a V8 for the masses and it is worth our also having a look at the sort of car that was not for the…

When we read about Henry Ford and the story of the creation of the V8 engine that went into the 1932 Ford Model 18 it seems little short of a miracle that the engine was successfully…