CarClub 18-30 - The Cars

If you're the curtain twitcher, wondering who the slightly shambolic looking chap is who stopped to take pictures of this Mini 850, it's me. Hello. My intentions are entirely honorable, I assure you. I just...

Following my big MX-5 restoration I have no qualms about using my car in all weathers. Heater up, roof down, even in the snow it's great fun. I get some funny looks but perhaps that's the pith helmet. Here's...

I had guessed what was under the car cover, without peeking, but the beauty in bay 35 in the Hotel car park had never moved during my regular visits there. There were soot marks on the wall where it had been...

When the subject turns to fast practical hatchbacks everyone knows that I’m an unashamed dyed-in-the-wool Golf GTI fanboy; the Octane clan have owned 'em all from a 1983 Mk1 'Campaign' to spanking new Mk7s....

I didn’t take these pictures. Owner Andy sent them in. You might not know him, but you might guess the kind of life he’s living (in his head) from the locations of the pictures. His silver W123 Coupe is a...

Forty two years ago, give or take, the United Nations established a buffer zone between warring Turks and Greeks on the island of Cyprus. This zone became a long-standing no-man’s land, varying from a few...

I’m probably on my own here at MotorPunk HQ but I quite liked James May right from the off. When he returned to ‘new format’ Top Gear in 2003 (he had done a guest stint in 1999 when the show was still a...

This was, enthusiasts say, the last proper Citroen. The last model designed and made before the company was absorbed into Peugeot and had all it’s wonderful creative craziness beaten out of it. Citroen made...

I was too late to help save MG Rover. It was about two or three years after they'd gone, and even though the internet was (and still is) regurgitating endless piffle about head gaskets and John Towers, I found...