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Can I Put Black and Silver Number Plates on my car? The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency explained in 2015 that vehicles manufactured more than 40 years ago were eligible to display the traditional black and silver number plates, but on 1st January 2021, the rules were changed and only vehicles manufactured before 1 January 1980 are eligible to display the black and silver number plates irrespective of being 40 years old and recorded on the DVLA’s Historic Tax Class.  Number Plate Suppliers...

Interesting video on the birth of the Austin Healey. https://youtu.be/ApTlXuq7ZCc?si=8wWdhPG2tWoLNIPp

With the current cost of living crisis affecting us all, the impact will be disproportionately felt by those who are already struggling to make ends meet. As a result, GoCompare have developed an interactive 'fuel prices tool' to help drivers find some of the cheapest places to fill up nearby.https://www.gocompare.com/motoring/guides/petrol-prices/ As my Mother always told me, "Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves"! Photograph: Credit SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY &nb...

Fashionably late in Geneva   Remembering the 60th anniversary of the E-type launch. By Ian Cushway, 7th May 2021   Picture the scene. The date? March 16, 1961. The place, a restaurant close to the Parc des Eaux Vives with the shimmering Lake Geneva nearby creating a perfect backdrop. Overflowing flutes of fizzing champagne majestically circulating around the 200 grey suited executives, the sickly scent of Faberge Brut hanging in the cool Swiss air. Well, in truth being March t...

XJ220 number 132 now...If ever the phrase 'some viewers may find the following scenes disturbing' could apply in motoring journalism, it is now. This forlorn-looking Jaguar XJ220 has been spotted looking rather wretched but with just 900km on the clock in Qatar by UAE-based motoring blog crankandpiston.com. There are a lot of blanks in this story, but it seems that the car was originally sold by a Jaguar dealer in Dubai and was last spotted six years ago in Beirut looking shiny, handsome and w...

Just yesterday we were enjoying a view of Goodwood from a Rover SD1 touring car; today there's confirmation that the Jaguar D-Type's 60th anniversary has inspired a 30-car grid of the type for a special race at September's Revival. D-Types were regular competitors in period at Goodwood, as the evocative LAT shot of Ron Flockhart leading Desmond Titterington in 1956 demonstrates. This year the D-Types will race in the Lavant Cup and Goodwood is promising short- and long-nose cars from owners acr...

A New World Auction Record At Bonhams Quail Lodge SaleThe Maranello Rosso Collection of Ten realizes a combined total of $65,945,000 (£39,522,440) 14 Aug 2014, Quail Lodge AuctionThe Ex-Jo Schlesser/Henri Oreiller, Paolo Colombo, Ernesto Prinoth, Fabrizio Violati1962-63 FERRARI 250 GTO BERLINETTAChassis no. 3851GTEngine no. 3851GT Carmel, California – Thursday, 14 August 2014 – The 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta has become the most valuable car in history to be sold at aucti...