Blog : Big shoes to fill (or hello, from the new Editor)
In a world of hard acts to follow, there are few harder than the man himself, Mr Keith Adams. It is, therefore, both a real honour and also something of a fright to be asked to oversee what has long...
View ArticleBlog : DVLA shenanigans – guilty until proven innocent?
Craig Cheetham I am not, by nature, an angry person. Indeed, I pass most days with a fairly cheery demeanour because I’m a very lucky individual who has a reasonably good standard of living, a good...
View ArticleIntroducing the Fleet : No.1 – Rover 827 Sterling
Craig Cheetham As I mentioned in my introductory post last week, I have quite a collection of cars. Over the next few weeks, then, I’ll be introducing them at a rate of one every 10 days or so, which...
View ArticleNews : Unipart Automotive enters administration
Parts supplier Unipart Automotive has gone into administration, putting around 1,300 jobs at risk and seeing yet another of the former elements of the BMC/BL/Austin Rover Group slide into the annals of...
View ArticleNews : Early low-mileage 800 Fastback at Anglia Car Auctions
Craig Cheetham What must be one of the oldest surviving Rover 800 Fastbacks is set to go under the hammer at Anglia Car Auctions’ summer sale later this month. Among the many more upmarket classics due...
View ArticleIntroducing the Fleet : No.2 – Rover 25 GTi
Craig Cheetham Sometimes, a car can come along that really surprises you. And that’s the case with my 25 GTi, which I acquired back in April in the knowledge I was about to be made redundant from my...
View ArticleEvents : BMC/BL Rally, Peterborough – and some warm weather Woollarding…
Over 40 years separated the oldest and newest cars displayed by AROnline members at last weekend’s BMC/BL Rally in Peterborough, with a varied array of old and new(ish) classics ranging from Rob...
View ArticleIntroducing the Fleet : No.3 – MG ZS 180
Okay, so there are quite a few of these to go through – indeed, until I sat down and worked it out for this very purpose, I’d lost count of how many cars I actually owned (18 at present…). This one...
View ArticleNews : Mystery Maestros…
Can anyone shed any light on this mysterious Maestro spotted by Mark Graham in the car park of Guildford railway station on Friday August 8th? Assuming it’s a British-built example then N-plate is very...
View ArticleEvents : BMC/BL Rally, Peterborough – and some warm-weather Woollarding…
Craig Cheetham Over 40 years separated the oldest and newest cars displayed by AROnline readers at last weekend’s BMC/BL Rally in Peterborough, with a varied array of old and new(ish) classics ranging...
View ArticleIntroducing the Fleet : No.3 – MG ZS 180
Craig Cheetham Okay, so there are quite a few of these to go through – indeed, until I sat down and worked it out for this very purpose, I’d lost count of how many cars I actually owned (18 at...
View ArticleNews : Fully Equipe-d… (and your chance to own a piece of Allegro history)
Craig Cheetham Allegro Equipes are like buses, then – and I’m not referring to the gearbox whine (even if my old Allegro 1750 did used to sound a lot like the Leyland National that took me to school...
View ArticleNews : Amazing SD3 unearthed…
Craig Cheetham Mind the cyclist, dear… because if you see this driving towards you, chances are you might take your eyes off the road for few moments… Cheshire Auto Promotions’ two annual Tatton Park...
View ArticleEvents : Moulton’s motors make it home…
The annual Moulton Bicycle Club weekend gathering took place at the Hall in Bradford-on-Avon between 29th-31st August 2014, writes Guy Vincent. The Hall is the home of the late Dr. Alex Moulton and...
View ArticleBlog : Footballers’ cars
Craig Cheetham Now, I’m not normally a massive fan of football… I appreciate it’s the most popular sport in the world, and certainly in the UK, but for me the ball’s the wrong shape and the players are...
View ArticleNews : Land Rover reveals new Discovery Sport
The new baby Discovery has finally broken cover – with Land Rover unveiling the newcomer within the dramatic surroundings of Spaceport America in New Mexico along with (and, no, we’re not joking) a...
View ArticleNews : MINI Superleggera Vision Concept makes UK debut at Salon Privé
MINI’s rather unusual Superleggera Vision concept, which was first unveiled at the world famous Concours d’Elegance at Villa d’Este last May, will make its UK debut during Salon Privé, which is being...
View ArticleBlog : They’re all coming out of the woodwork…
Maybe it’s an age thing, maybe it’s the eBay fuelled ‘barn-find’ phenomenon, but, all of a sudden, there seems to be a huge increase in the number of extremely low-mileage Eighties and Nineties A-R...
View ArticleNews : Beautiful Bognor’s on a Rolls…
It may be more famous for family fun at Butlin’s, bracing winds and more sunshine per year than any other seaside town in Britain, but Bognor Regis is also set to become the latest town to benefit from...
View ArticleNews : Here’s the XE, but is it sexy?
In a word – yes! (even if it does look more than a little like the XF…) Jaguar pulled out all the theatrical stops in order to introduce its newcomer to the world in a bizarre stage-musical style...
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