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Aston Martin celebrates 100 years of racing.
21 July 2022 – Castellet, France: A century on from its racing debut, Aston Martin marked the centenary of its maiden race at the 1922 French Grand Prix. Ahead of Sunday’s Grand Prix, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel had the piloted TT1 – affectionately nicknamed ‘Green Pea’ – around Circuit Paul Ricard. The cars were builtContinue reading “Aston Martin celebrates 100 years of racing.”
P5 with PM pedigree up for sale
By Classic Yorkshire correspondent Tony Lofthouse The Rover P5 that drove Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher into the history books is heading to auction later this month. The ebony black Rover famously carried the country’s first female PM to meet the Queen in May 1979 and form the new Government. It left the Solihull production lineContinue reading “P5 with PM pedigree up for sale”
The name game – the good and the bad!
By Classic Yorkshire correspondent, Tony Lofthouse. In my last blog about the sporty Opel Manta I touched on the ‘fishy’ origins behind the naming of the model. That got me thinking about how manufacturers choose car names and some of the more unusual ones out there. It’s fair to say a name can make orContinue reading “The name game – the good and the bad!”
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