British Motoring Stories

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

The Gentleman, the Chair, and the Frozen Aston Martin

The Ferrari That Britain Built By Accident

The Emancipation Run's Quiet Little Secret

The Detroit Heart of British Motoring

The Great British Motor Car Identity Crisis

The Homologation Special That Mugged a Nation

Saloon Car That Terrified Parliament

The Glorious, Unreliable Brute

The Fathers Who Bet the House on Motorcycle Furniture

The Belgian Who Built a Better MGB

The 200mph MG That Ran on Courage and Tea

The Polite Point: Britain's Glorious, Obsolete Trafficator

The Divorce That Built an Empire and Killed an Industry

The Caravan King and the Aircraft Engineer

The Motorsport Valley, The Fastest Countryside on Earth

The Prince of Darkness

The Jaguar That Wasn't

The British Arrow That Found Its Persian Target

The Car That Britain Refused

The War for the Driveway

The Car That Couldn't Go Backwards

The German Invasion That Saved Britain

When Austerity Britain Built a Jet Car

Reinventing The Wheel

The Car Too Famous to Steal

The Digital Dashboard That Ran on Hope and Smoke

The Secret in James Bond's Engine

The Folded Paper Revolution

The Ultimate Loophole

The Unpainted Wonder of Le Mans

A Rocket In a Garden Shed

The Cornishman, the Crash, and the Icy Alps

The Car That Was Too Clever

The Ghost Who Styled the World

The Cage Fighter in the Tweed Jacket

The Audacity Club

The Kit Car That Refused to Disintegrate

Britain's Three-Wheeled Permission Slip

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

When the Glass Company Made Better Cars than the Car Companies

The Austin Gipsy and its Fantastically Flawed Flexitor Suspension

The Gibbs Aquada: When Britain Built a Proper Amphibian

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

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

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

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