Medlem Tony Wawryk

The future of our classic car hobby has been a question that has bothered me for some time. Certainly the interest in cars from the 1930’s to 1970’s has dropped – you only have to look at how auction prices for Jaguar XK and E-types, BMW E9’s, Aston martin DB4 – 6, Ferrari Dino’s, Porsche 911 2.7RS, classics that were previously deemed solid…[Læs mere]

@jewer – thank you! I have never seen one!

Looks like a very cool event! What’s the car beside the Toyota 2000GT? It looks like a soft-top 2000GT but I didn’t think there were any?

Congratulations on your “new” car, Michael – it looks fantastic, and I hope you enjoy many kilometres driving it!

Regarding Silverstone Festival – this year was the first time I didn’t go in a few years, mainly because it had become less and less a classic event and more a family day out. Next year it will be replaced by something called Car…[Læs mere]

In my final year at junior school, aged 10, I played for the school football team, and my father, who worked shifts as a miner, was often able to take me and three of my team-mates to away matches after school, crammed into his Sunbeam Rapier Series IV (I think it was a IV), probably the coolest car he ever owned. They – and I – all loved it. It…[Læs mere]

@ole-wichmann – the Daimler Dart is better looking!

The Austin Princess R in LHD is quite a find – there are surely very few in Denmark? And yes, “stately” is a very good word to describe it, though it is quicker than it looks – top speed of 180km/h. We featured a Princess R as a Prime Find in the international edition of VR back in 2019…[Læs mere]

Congratulations Claus on a very cool and interesting choice! I’ve only driven an MR2 once, years ago, and a short drive at that, but I loved it – it was only the lack of practicality that stopped me buying one, as it would have been my only car. And I can absolutely believe it was fantastic fun on the roads around the Nurburgring, even the bad…[Læs mere]

Interesting piece on windshield wipers – the single blade system is more common than i thought, as it is also on a number of Citroens, the VW Scirocco Mk1and the mighty BMW M1 as well as several Mercedes and no doubt others. One not mentioned above is the three-blade system on the Jaguar E-type on the coupe I rented some years ago – I only tested…[Læs mere]

LOVE the dark green E24 Alpina – superb! And the CHGP looks like a wonderful event – I would love to attend some day.

I have seen examples of the Porsche 356 Zagato here in the UK – first time at the Hampton Court Concours (though it wasn’t an entrant) and again at Megaphonics last year; the photo attached is from that event. The Spyder is…[Læs mere]

Regarding the Find of the Week – an exotic name for what was called the Morris 1800 here in the UK. My father ran one for a while in the early 1970s – it was an excellent family car, very spacious and comfortable, if slightly odd looking. I can’t find a regular 1800 for sale in the UK to compare, but DKK 65,000 (reduced from DKK 75,000, I see from…[Læs mere]

I first went to the Festival of Speed in 1995, it’s third running, I believe. It was great, lots of cool cars etc etc. I went again maybe three times, the last time being about ten years ago, by which time it had become bloated and very corporate, and have not returned since. There’s very little to see in terms of the hill climb, and the site is…[Læs mere]

After experiencing the Spa Classic in May, the Le Mans is definitely next on my list! The Sinsheim museum is also absolutely worth a visit – I’ve been twice, once in the late 1980s, and again nine years ago. Thanks for the report, Michael!

I’ve just had a look at the current Lotus range on their website, and I have a feeling that a big part of the problem is the move upmarket and pricing – Emira’s are available for between £83,000 and £90,000, the SYV Eletre £95k and up, Emeya’s at £140,000 and up, before you get to the ridiculous 2,000bhp Evija. It seems to me that they have for…[Læs mere]

I first saw this story last week, and it depressed me. I’m not a huge Lotus fan, though I love the way many of them look, especially the original Elite and the Europa, and although I’ve never driven one I understand that they are generally great to drive. However, they’re also renowned for being problematic to own – the old joke that Lotus stood…[Læs mere]

The Volkswagen currywurst is most definitely a thing, in fact, many millions of things, made by VW themselves since 1973 and sold all over Germany as well as abroad. Interesting piece on Wikipedia about it here – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst

@ce – since you seem not to want to go in the direction of a 944 S2 (though you really should), what about a 4th generation Celica 2.0GT – nice clean lines, decent performance, fuel injection (I believe)? Or is that one of the Japanese sports coupes you have already considered?