Members share stories, anecdotes and happenings with their classics. Comments are welcome and are moderated before they appear.
The first two Aston Martin motorcycles were not for the road. AMB 001 arrived in 2019, the 001 Pro in 2022: track-only machines, built with Brough Superior, and sold like jewellery. Gaydon has now done the obvious next thing. The…
The Interceptor most of us know arrived in 1966: glass-hatch fastback, American V8, Italian lines on a British chassis. It ran for about a decade and roughly 6,400 left the works. The shape stuck. The company did not. Jensen International…
An AI clip, two minutes thirty-four seconds, every machine rebuilt from real photographs. These are not period films. They are reconstructions, labelled year by year, in the order the clip chooses, not a textbook timeline. It opens on 1805 and…
January 1974, Harvest Gold, and this is about the last of the chrome-bumper MG Midgets with the 1275. Round rear arches, round lamps, a proper grille — the shape people mean when they say Midget. Later that year the rubber…
A heads-up for brethren who fancy a proper classic-car Sunday in Warwickshire: the 9th Round Table Dorridge Day Classic Car Show is on Sunday 6 September 2026. This is a Round Table day out, not a Square Wheels Lodge meeting…
General Motors told its people to stop racing. Zora Arkus-Duntov heard the order, nodded in the right meetings, and then built five Corvettes that existed for almost no other reason. They were called Grand Sports. Only five left the works.…
My present Morgan Plus 8 is actually the fourth I’ve owned. The first was a present from my wife, Jayne, for my 40th birthday — which, I should perhaps add, was some time ago! After my third Morgan I fancied…
Warwickshire Light Blues Club treasure hunt in Birmingham, Saturday 22 August 2026 (flyer still shows 5 September). Awareness only — not a Square Wheels meeting.
Jay Leno drove a real 250 GT California Spyder. The Ferrari most of us remember from the cinema was something else.
Felix Scott-Copeland’s two-minute film from the hills — cream tea, picnic baskets, and an invitation to come next year.
