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Tag: dave wakefield
Podcast – Good, Bad, Ugly and Unusual “Affordable” Dream Cars
Welcoming David back on the podcast, we discuss the thrills and spills of driving lessons, the end of the MOT extensions, and good, bad, ugly and unusual “affordable” dream cars… [ … ]
VW Polo – One Lady Owner for 36 years
As mythological constructs go, the fabled ‘one lady owner’ second hand car has long been regarded with the same wariness as the existence of unicorns or an Alfasud composed of [ … ]
Andreas Nikolaus “Niki” Lauda – Survivor
When one hears the name Niki Lauda, inevitably – for this writer at least – it’s accompanied by images of a slightly-built man with a rodent-like overbite and a permanently-affixed, [ … ]
America: Oddly similar, similarly odd
For the car geek, a trip overseas is always a treat and particularly, for those of us who live outside the USA at least, one which involves crossing the Atlantic. [ … ]
Tyred & Emotional – Part 2 – “The Reckoning”
And so it was dear reader that I found myself limping my temporarily-undershod steed in the direction of the local tyre fitting outfit having just been given the brush-off by [ … ]
Tyred & Emotional – Part 1
It’s unlikely to have escaped your attention unless you’ve been fortunate to spend Winter in more temperate climes, but over the last couple of months the UK has been subjected [ … ]
A Soggy Start..
As the late, great Roy Salvadori once opined: “Give me Goodwood on a summer’s day and you can keep the rest of the world”. Well, with the kids back at [ … ]
Another Flying Finn hits the Hill – Valtteri Bottas
For a relatively small nation, Finland has always proved herself capable of punching well above her weight. From giving the Soviet Union more than a bloodied nose at the outset of [ … ]
Notwork Rail.
If you caught the most recent episode of The Nation’s Favourite Motoring Programme, you’ll have seen Clarkson, Hammond & May attempt to re-write the rules of rail travel with their [ … ]
