I like Italian cars and motorcyles, and I like four wheel drives. Italian cars stir up ideas of Ferrari, Maserati, Iso and Lamborghini, and four wheel drives are, for me at least, associated with rifles and…
Fiat 1101A Campagnola, The Italian Jeep
Jaguar XK120 V8 “un-barn find”
Had it been found in a barn we might have described it as a barn find, but sadly this Jaguar XK120 from 1954 has been out in the open for the last however many years and…
Lancia-Abarth SE 037
At the beginning of the seventies Italian sports car maker Abarth was absorbed into the Fiat empire which involved coming under the corporate strategy setting dictated by Fiat’s top levels of management. Abarth having had a…
Daimler SP250 Dart Project
Built by Birmingham Small Arms owned Daimler Cars (by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen), with a V8 engine designed by the man who created the Ariel Square 4 motorcycle engine, and with input from Jaguar,…
THE GRAND PRIX CAR 1945-1965
There’s a nice series of videos on The Grand Prix Car 1945-1965 available on YouTube. Each episode is about 25 minutes long and there is much archival footage and interviews with such people as Stirling Moss,…
Richard “Dick” Seaman and the Mercedes Silver Arrows
Richard “Dick” Seaman was the only British racing driver to be admitted to the Mercedes-Benz “Silver Arrows” Grand Prix racing team in the period before the Second World War. Born on 4th February 1913 as the…
