In the UK you do get a tax break for owning an old car, but it's not huge. Cars built before about 1973 are exempt from Vehicle Excise Duty (annual car tax). It's a couple of hundred quid, so it's not going to fund your Lagonda restoration.

Gordon Keeble. 1960s British chassis, Italian body and a 327 Stingray engine. The tortoise is ironic.

This is the car for the man who........

.....because chrome plating!

Damn you, iPad!

The Commer / Tilling Stevens TS3. As animated by the Roobarb and Custard school of animation (British Joke). Hope the rather wonderful gif works. If not, it can be found at http://www.sa.hillman.org.au/TS3.htm

You could buy 1920s Bentley for about £50 in the early 1950s. Times were still pretty hard in the UK, and few people had £700 (about £20,000 in todays money) to spend on an 'old' car. Petrol was still rationed, so your weekly allowance would probably propel a Royale about 30 feet down the road.

The ball hitch on the front is so you can see where you are going when you are launching your boat.

I remember when the Orion came out. There was rumour that Ford UK wanted to call it the Cortina. They always seemed to have crappy body kits from Halfords fitted to them.

Yeah, 96 was a particularly bad year for the Escort if I remember!

This is pure class - a really handsome car. Ford will sell about a bazillion of these in Europe, especially if they can work up hatchback and wagon versions.

It sounds like pretty much none of the monster oil tankers of the 1970s ever made a profit, due partly to changes in the market they were aimed at. They were dinosaurs, too big to adapt to these changes. Is there any sign that the monster container ships are going to go the same way? I think most were built for…

I think it might be China that is obsessed with blondes, at least that's what the marketing guys are assuming. There's also a redhead on the stage, Which in china is even more exotic. Someone I know with red hair went to china a few years back and had to fight off blokes in the street trying to touch her. Not…

So BMW actually play fake engine noise through the stereo? Like an automotive equivalent of those plastic 'motorbike sound' twist grip things that you used to be able to get for your bike when you we a kid? It's actually a bit pathetic that grown-up adults thought that this was a good idea, and that other grown-up…