Well, belated Happy New Year to you all. And even more belated apologies and explanations for my unannounced and prolonged absence from this site in the last months of 2013. What started as a three-week battle with BT over a … Continue reading
Because BMW have been whoring the new i3 electric city car all over the internet for the past couple of weeks, and Jaguar have launched the new R version of the XJ (which, of course, they strenuously denied would ever … Continue reading
Tonight’s blog subject may come a little out of the deep off-side, but I’m going to talk about the subject of modifications to classic cars. From the start, I’m going to say that I, personally, don’t go in for modification … Continue reading
For a blog that concerns itself mainly with cars from the dark, beige-clad days of the ‘Seventies, I don’t feel it’s too remiss of me to take a whole two weeks to do what everyone else on the internet seems … Continue reading
I don’t talk about Land Rovers that much on this blog. Which is strange because I have had a Land Rover of some sort all of my driving ‘career’ (a horrible phrase, but it sounds better than the alternative of … Continue reading
My blog a few weeks ago about the V8 engine as a phenomenon got me thinking about engines in general and how some seem to loom larger in the consciousness of enthusiasts than the cars they’re in. The Lotus Twin … Continue reading
When you have a 4×4 you actually look forward to seeing Amber Weather Warnings and animated snowflakes on the weather forecast. For the owners of older Land Rovers the ability to keep on motoring through the ‘chaos’ of a typical … Continue reading
The Land Rover Defender is 29 years old. It was way back in 1983, when the Falklands War had only just stopped being a current event, the Austin Maestro was cutting edge, Miami Vice set fashion trends and KC and … Continue reading
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This one isn’t going to be much of a Trip Report, for the simple reason that it wasn’t much of a trip. I decided to mark my first weekend of living in Peterborough by visiting the Land Rover Owner Show … Continue reading
This blog was originally going to be along the lines of ‘old versus new’, until it occurred to me that even the ‘new’ component is now 22 years old and is closer to the year the ‘old’ one was built … Continue reading