Monteverdi Safari – Off Road Luxury For Seventies GT Man Steve Swanson CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 1 Comment En vogue long before Range Rover made a 'Vogue', the Monteverdi Safari was one of the earliest luxury off roaders. The exotic name added mystique to a humble, International Scout 4x4, dressed in Italian...
CarClub 18-30: Hello to the Renault Clio V6 Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars At the turn of the millennium, when most hot-hatch boffins were busy lashing turbos to humdrum four-pots, Renault decided that their flagship pocket-rocket deserved something a little more avant-garde. A V6 in...
The Honda Mazda smashed-up mash-up Steve Swanson CarClub 18-30, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Seventies cars 1 Comment It looks like a Honda S800 - It is a Honda S800, except underneath the skin is a series 1 Mazda MX5. There’s a bit of Fiat, a bit of Ford, some electronic witchcraft and a touch of Yogic calm thrown in to...
A Mini Flamefest Steve Swanson CarClub 18-30, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 1 Comment Meet Monty and Gigi, two Minis that are candidates for an ASBO thanks to a modicum of shed tinkering that’s made them obnoxiously loud and a lot of fun. They are the prized possessions of twenty...
No shit, Sherlock. Bizarre Talbot Horizon special. Rich Duisberg CarClub 18-30 - The Cars It’s funny. Whenever I go to France I often get the horrible feeling that, as an Englishman, I’m as welcome as a hog roast at a Bar mitzvah. I don’t speak French, pardon, and I’m sure that doesn’t...
CarClub 18-30 – Questionable Reputations and the Maserati 4200GT Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars I have always felt a bit sorry for Maserati; passing from pillar to post in the reshuffles of various conglomerates for almost fifty years. After being kicked out of the sack by so many automotive bedfellows,...
eBay Classic Car Clickbait – Rebels, Renaults and Manky Maserati Steve Swanson Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars If like me, you find yourself with a little too much time on your hands at the moment you might find the classic cars section of eBay an irresistible draw for a spot of cyber tyre kicking on the hunt for a...
The Murky History of the original Italian Job Minis Darryl Sleath Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars In 2011 the Mail Online ran a story about how three of the original Italian Job minis, or what remained of them, had finally resurfaced from a lock up in the backstreets of Turin. According to the article, a...
Sebring MGBs – The race cars that saved MG Darryl Sleath Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 1 Comment Here's the story of the most important burble (yes, that is the collective noun) of MGBs to ever leave the factory in Oxfordshire. This gorgeous MGB factory lightweight is one of three BMC Competition...