"Billed as the most unique hot rod event in Europe the 'Hot Rod Hayride ' has a lot to live up to. This made the Friday night dash up from Cornwall all the more anxious! Hosted by Jerry Chatabox & "
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Your Car Was Born in the Seventies
"Your car was born in the 1970s. Car-nerds will argue about this, but the seventies mark the start of the modern era for the motor car. The economic and energy crises of the decade shook the car-world hard. It had "
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Stars of the Seventies
" 1970 Plymouth Superbird A few more muscle cars trickled out in ’71, but the Superbird’s massive rear wing marks the literal high-point of muscle car design, and also its swan-song. 1971 Lamborghini Countach concept Why are all the best supercars – McLaren F1, "
Influx people: Seventies Stylists
"Chris Ryan Chris Ryan is Cornish based surfer, musician and collector of offbeat vehicles. His Beach Buggy is a creation from the early 70s - with fibreglass frame strapped onto a ’61 beetle chassis. The motor is your standard 1500 VW job. ""
Pops Yoshimura and the Birth of Muscle
"Look, I’m a stick in the mud. Not only that, I’m inconsistent. On one hand, bullets of nervous sweat pop up on my forehead the minute my home Wi-Fi hiccups, on the other I dream of all electronics, "
1976: Hunt vs Lauda
"The James Hunt versus Niki Lauda battle for the 1976 world championship elevated motor racing from the back pages to the front. Hunt was the tall, blond, good-looking British public schoolboy, who liked a ciggy and a beer and wore ‘sex-the "
All Hail The Wedge
"If any single design concept is synonymous with the 1970s it must be The Wedge. Redolent of an imagined space-age future, the design was conceived at the end of the 1960s by epoch making designers like Giugiaro and Gandini. It "
England’s Glory
"Forget casinos. The fastest way – literally – to make a small fortune out of a large one is to try to create your own British sports car. History is littered with sports car firms that have gone spectacularly bust, yet every "
Loveable English Hooligans
"Arash AF10 Few of Arash Farboud’s creations have yet to trouble the DVLA, but we hope his latest, £320,000 Vette V8-powered creation makes it to production FBS Census This odd-looking roadster rather boldly named itself the ‘Future of British "
Heroes of the National Sport
"Britain’s 10 world champions Mike Hawthorn [gallery=128] Mike Hawthorn, from Mexborough in Yorkshire, will forever have the distinction of being Britain’s first F1 world champion. Hawthorn was "
XKSS: Bridgehead to the British Invasion
"For us, the question of what is the sexiest, coolest, most beautiful sports car ever to be produced out of these islands is an easy one to answer. The Jaguar XKSS, of course. Produced in 1957 in the Browns Lane Jaguar "
Grease is the Word
"1964: Boyhood dreams of Grease, rock & denim. In my dreams I was a British Biker. I was a mod-baiting, leather wearing fetishist of all things American. That was the look anyway. But it was only English Iron that would do "