It’s ok to love Carbs – why we should all show carburettors a little respect
If there is one part of classic car ownership, we get asked about more than anything it is about tuning Carburettors. For many even quite practically minded people the carburettor is mysterious object, prone to faults, confusing to diagnose and impossible to set up correctly.
How much does it cost to restore an E-Type Jaguar?
This is a question we get asked a lot and it’s an almost impossible question to answer. There are really 2 questions and a timeframe in which to ask them. A better first question would be ‘how much will THIS Jaguar E-type cost to restore’ and the second question would be what level of ‘correctness’
Why the ban on new petrol and diesel engines won’t be the death knell for classic cars
In November 2020 the UK Government brought forward the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2030. This sent shock waves around the classic car and automotive industry as people suddenly realised that we were in the last decade of vehicular combustion engine production. Quite naturally, people began to think about
The Fuchs wheel – how one car’s design shaped a legendary wheel
The Fuchs wheel with its ‘clover leaf’ design is synonymous with Porsche and one of the most recognised wheel designs in the world. The final design of the wheel was created by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche and in this blog we propose just how that unique design came about.
E10 petrol – great news for the planet but bad news for classic car owners
The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed that a new type of bio-fuel, known as E10, will become the standard for unleaded petrol as early as August 2021. E10 petrol is unleaded petrol which contains up to 10 per cent bioethanol, taken from renewable sources such as sugar beet and other vegetable matter.