About Me

I've loved cars since I was a child. My father was a mechanic and had many at home, so I drove my first one at ten years old - a VW Beetle bouncing across a field.

Over the years, I've owned cars from all corners of the world and loved most of them. Although I've also owned newer, more reliable machinery - and some of them serve as family cars on the driveway - I stubbornly prefer driving older cars that have actual character. Since I've always looked after them properly, I've been spared the roadside dramas that people tend to associate with classic ownership. In fact, they've been more reliable than most of the brand new cars my wife prefers.

I read everything I can get my hands on about classic cars and motorsport: the official histories, the forgotten memoirs, the technical manuals that normal people use as doorstops. After years of filling a large bookcase with books, I finally decided to write some of these stories down.

This isn't an expert site run by someone with decades in the motor industry. I'm just an enthusiast who thinks these stories deserve to be told to people who might actually enjoy them - whether you're already car-mad or just curious about why the British spent a century building beautiful, unreliable, and occasionally brilliant motorcars.

For years, demanding work meant this remained just a good intention filed away with all the other projects I'd get to "someday." Then AI came along and suddenly made it possible to research and produce content at the speed my enthusiasm demanded rather than the pace my spare time allowed.

I'll undoubtedly get things wrong occasionally. When that happens, just drop me a line and I'll fix it. After all, the best thing about being an amateur rather than an expert is that you're allowed to learn something new every day.

​

Tom