Bentley celebrates 70 years of the Continental badge with a look back at the original Continental – the Bentley R-Type Continental. The core of the modern Bentley range since VW took the reins is the Continental GT – well, at least until the Bentayga arrived and started mopping up sales – and Bentley is celebrating […]
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Coupé SOLD for £115 Million
A 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Coupé, one of just two in existence and owned by Mercedes from new, is sold for a world record £115 million. Everyone knows that the most valuable car in the world is the Ferrari 250 GTO, with chassis #3413 selling in 2018 for almost £40 million, and rumours of a […]
Jaguar XK European is an XK Restomod costing from £550k – PLUS your own Jaguar XK
The Jaguar XK European is revealed as a restomod of Jaguar’s XK, with some design updates and more power. Costs from £550k plus donor car. Just yesterday we reported on a restomod of a Big Healey costing the thick end of £500k, and today we get a similar restomod of the Jaguar XK by Thornley […]
Original Big Healey RESTOMOD by Caton will cost you almost £500k
A new ‘Luxury British Brand’, Caton, is creating 25 Restomod Austin Healey 100 BN1 models – the original ‘Big Healey’ – each costing £474,000. When the Austin Healey 100 BN1 arrived in 1953, it epitomised the classic affordable British sports car and was based on the Austin A90. The first of the ‘Big Healeys’, it […]
Mini Remastered Marshall Edition by David Brown celebrates 60 years of Marshall Amps
David Brown Automotive reveals a new limited edition Mini Remastered – the Marshall edition – to celebrate 60 years of Marshall Amplification. Even when you’re creating ‘new’ Minis from old Minis, charging £100k apiece and with modest production numbers, it seems a ‘special edition’ model is still a metal-shifter for David Brown Automotive. Having only […]
Electric Classic Cars turns a wrecked 1972 BMW 3.0 CSi in to an ELECTRIC BMW 3.0 CSL
Electric Classic Cars add to its impressive list of Classic EV conversions with a wrecked BMW 3.0 CSi turned in to an electric BMW 3.0 CSL. It seems inevitable that more and more classic car specialists are turning to electric power to keep classics on the road, and give them the ability to be daily […]
Will a McLaren F1 GTR run on DIESEL? It seems not.
Wealthy petrolhead Francois Perrodo managed to fill up the tank on his McLaren F1 FTR at BP in Chiswick with diesel. Which won’t be a cheap fix. The McLaren F1 is perhaps the most celebrated, and expensive, supercar ever made (challenged only by the Ferrari 250 GTO) and only 64 road cars and even fewer […]
A 1963 Peel P50 – the World’s Smallest Car – sells for £111,000
A 1963 Peel P50, the smallest car in the world, has sold for a near-record £111,000 at auction, the second-highest price ever paid for a P50. Top Gear, in the Clarkson, May and Hammond days, had probably more influence on what was perceived as appealing and not appealing than just about any other before or […]
Lunaz’s Classic Range Rover, Jaguar, Roll-Royce and Bentley EV Conversion TWO YEAR waiting list
The waiting list for Classic Car EV specialist Lumaz to deliver an electric conversion for prestige classics is now two years. Are Classic Cars that have been converted to EVs still Classic Cars? Well, according to FIVA, the international federation of historic vehicles, they’re not. But no one seems to have told EV Classic Car […]
Classic Range Rover from Overfinch Heritage is STUNNING – but at a price
Heritage Overfinch – Overfinch’s ‘classic’ division – moves on from Defenders to Classic Range Rovers with stunning, but pricey, restomods. There was a time, when Adam was a lad, that Overfinch was the only real player in the aftermarket Land Rover and Range Rover game, delivering not just updated interiors and exteriors but some properly […]