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British Motoring Stories

Tales of triumph, disaster, and brilliant madness from motoring history.

The Great British Motor Car Identity Crisis

Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500

The Homologation Special That Mugged a Nation

Vauxhall Lotus Carlton

Saloon Car That Terrified Parliament

Bentley Blower

The Glorious, Unreliable Brute

William Walmsley and William Lyons in Blackpool in 1922

The Fathers Who Bet the House on Motorcycle Furniture

Coune MGB Berlinette

The Belgian Who Built a Better MGB

Major Goldie Gardner in MG EX135 at Dessau, Germany in 1939

The 200mph MG That Ran on Courage and Tea

Morris semaphore arm indicator, a charmingly British piece of automotive history that favoured mechanical politeness over modern efficiency.

The Polite Point: Britain's Glorious, Obsolete Trafficator

The Divorce That Built an Empire and Killed an Industry

Berkely Sports

The Caravan King and the Aircraft Engineer

Motorsport Valley

The Motorsport Valley, The Fastest Countryside on Earth

Lucas Electrical Equipment

The Prince of Darkness

1934 Sunbeam Dawn

The Jaguar That Wasn't

Peykan (Hillman Hunter)

The British Arrow That Found Its Persian Target

The Car That Britain Refused

Ford Cortina and Vauxhall Victor

The War for the Driveway

1903 Vauxhall

The Car That Couldn't Go Backwards

BMW Isetta and Austin Mini (the photo was generated by AI and might not be 100% accurate!)

The German Invasion That Saved Britain

Rover JET1 Airfield Testing

When Austerity Britain Built a Jet Car

Austin Allegro's infamous "Quartic" steering wheel

Reinventing The Wheel

Sean Connery as James Bond 007 with Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger

The Car Too Famous to Steal

Aston Martin Lagonda dashboard

The Digital Dashboard That Ran on Hope and Smoke

Aston Martin V12 Engine

The Secret in James Bond's Engine

Lotus Esprit Turbo

The Folded Paper Revolution

Colin Chapman - Did the Master of Loopholes Fake His Own Death?

The Ultimate Loophole

Ecurie Ecosse transporter on the way to Le Mans 1962 with the Ecurie Ecosse Tojeiro on the roof (Number 25)

The Unpainted Wonder of Le Mans

Fairthorpe Rockette

A Rocket In a Garden Shed

Donald Healey at Monte Carlo Rally finish line, 1931

The Cornishman, the Crash, and the Icy Alps

Alvis TA350 prototype

The Car That Was Too Clever

Giovanni Michelotti

The Ghost Who Styled the World

Aston Martin Bulldog

The Cage Fighter in the Tweed Jacket

Ariel Climbs Mount Snowdon, 1904

The Audacity Club

The Midas Gold Crash Test, 1986

The Kit Car That Refused to Disintegrate

Reliant Regal Period Newspaper Advertisement

Britain's Three-Wheeled Permission Slip

The Philips Mignon Car Record Player

The In-Car Record Player: The Coolest Bad Idea of the 1960s

Sketch of the Triplex Ten Twenty Special

When the Glass Company Made Better Cars than the Car Companies

Austin Gipsy

The Austin Gipsy and its Fantastically Flawed Flexitor Suspension

Gibbs Aquada on the road

The Gibbs Aquada: When Britain Built a Proper Amphibian

Bristol 404 with spare wheel compartment open

The Bristol Wing: How Aircraft Engineers Solved the Spare Wheel Problem

Jensen FF

The Jensen FF: How a West Bromwich Workshop Built Tomorrow's Car in 1966

Sydney Allard, Le Mans 1951

How a London Garage Owner Beat Ferrari with American Muscle and British Cunning

Mini Marcos, Le Mans 1966

The Flying Splinter: How Two Men Built Britain's Most Unlikely Racing Legend from Plywood and Genius

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