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 […]
New Range Rover or Kingsley Cars Classic Range Rover Restomod at £125k to beat ULEZ charges?
Kingsley Cars are offering a Restomod take on the Classic Range Rover, with modern build and tech and ULEZ exempt at £125k. In case you hadn’t noticed, Sadiq Khan has extended the London ULEZ zone right out to the North and South Circular, adding a £12.50 charge (and much more for commercial vehicles) for most […]
Lumaz turn the Aston Martin DB6 in to an EV – or an electric DB4 or DB5 if you prefer
Classic Car EV specialists Lumaz now turn their attention to the Aston Martin DB6 with an EV conversion, and for the DB4 and DB5 too if you wish. Classic car specialists, from men in a shed to high-end purveyors, are starting to electrify classic cars to keep them relevant and usable in a new woke […]