Rusty Old Rubbish

One of my favourite blog pieces of 2019 was the final one, detailing the remarkable history of the KLF's famous Ford Timelord police ca...

A DVLA enigma The DVLA's online vehicle enquiry service is an incredibly useful tool for car enthusiasts, but every now and again som...

It all started with a simple question: what happened to Ford Timelord? I knew nothing at all about that car or its owner but I do love a goo...

One of my all-time favourite scenes in The Simpsons occurs in the 1992 episode Mr. Plow , when Homer looks for a new car at the 'Place ...

2019 has been a good year for milestones in the British Leyland enthusiast community. Most famously of course the Mini is celebrating 60 yea...

It's now been over a year since I had the privilege of driving TWC , the famous HubNut Invacar. You might think that would have been my ...

It's already been a month since the unique spectacle of Hagerty's Festival of the Unexceptional so it's about time I did a prope...

Last time I looked at the cars in the Concours de l'Ordinaire, which may be the centrepiece of the Festival of the Unexceptional but the...

Regular readers will know by now that the Festival of the Unexceptional is undoubtedly my favourite event of the year and there is nothing e...

It's odd how cars made in particular countries seem to share certain characteristics. Italian cars for instance are known for sportiness...

One aspect of the classic car scene I love is the element of surprise from discovering cars I'd never seen before. That's especially...

It should come as no surprise that as soon as Oxford Diecast released their model of the Austin Maxi I embarked on a repaint to represent my...

Oxford Diecast 76MX001 - 1/76 scale Austin Maxi in Tara Green Regular readers may remember that almost a year ago I expressed my delight ...

Yesterday marked exactly 50 years since the Austin Maxi was presented to the world on 24th April 1969 in Oporto, Portugal. The Maxi has had ...

Well hello to all my readers, it's been a very long time since my last post for various not very interesting reasons. I'm back to a ...

It's winter, it's cold, dark and wet, and the car show season seems like it was an age ago. As I sit here in the darkness, I think b...

The unsung heroes series seems to have become rather more occasional than I intended, but here at last is a new entry. This one has been on ...

It's been a while since my last blog, and there's no particular reason, just everyday life getting in the way. Today I want to start...

I'm a very happy man at the moment. I've just ticked something odd off my bucket list that very few people have ever done and I cert...

As promised last time, here's the second of my top tens from the brilliant Festival of the Unexceptional. This one is a run down of my f...