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I was 17 when my mother died. I need to tell you that to explain how I came to own an MG Metro at such a tender age. And now that I have, I need also to tell you that while she was...
Driven Archive
There are no mountains, nor indeed anything particularly white close by the Monteblanco circuit, an hour out of the Andalusian capital city of Seville in Spain. What’s more, the corners...
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‘Please Andrew, don’t be doing any more of that with this car.’ The words belonged to Lotus sales manager Scott Walker, the car to Colin Chapman until his untimely death...
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Sometimes the answer is right in front of you. I was driving along the A422 this evening wondering what the devil I was going to write for this week's column and drawing a resolute blank...
Motorsport
I am one of a generation blessed to have been brought up in an age of damn cool Formula 1 cars. Actually my ‘window’ as I like to think of it is quite narrow, opening at the age of 10 in 1975...
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A story good enough to make one of the world’s great writers reply. Mel Nichols recalls a dear friend and a beloved car
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A few years ago, PJ O’Rourke – widely regarded as America’s funniest writer – read a story I wrote about the 1960 MGA 1600 I had when I was 19 and emailed me this note...
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I put finger to keyboard rather tentatively here, as I’m aware this might appear to be a counterpoint to Andrew English’s 'What I hate about modern cars' piece...