The one I built in 1999. Its languishing in a garage somewhere in Scotland, and I’m now in Canada.

Most of the scrap value is in the Rhodium and other precious metals in the exhaust system. Copper will get a couple of bucks, but there’s probably a couple hundred bucks in the catalytic converter.

But it only really needed to be cheap. So they used the Fiesta Mk1 platform & engine, which were already really long in the tooth. They sold zillions of them across Europe.

Having owned a 2010 Chevy Aveo, I can tell you exactly what they are worth..... nothing. I gave ours away to the new owners of our house when I moved from Nova Scotia to Ontario

I had a stick-shift Volvo S40 that had Cruise Control. That was pretty dumb on anything but perfectly flat roads

Depending on how you count them, there were, and still are, either 99 or 101 Gordon Keebles. This one looks a bit odd on Jaguar XJS wheels, but it’s still a real beauty. (Wheels should be steel Dunlop centre-lock)

No-one has a ‘Right’ to drive anything. It’s a privilege that we have to earn by training before we start and being responsible adults thereafter.

Smart Car Coupe.....

Actually, the Rangie doesn’t look much different to the tin snail... have a look at the pic near the top of the article:

That’s not Dennis the Menace... This is Dennis the Menace, with his faithless hound, gnasher:

Been there, done that. They lean and lean , but they never fall down. On the Range Rover, it may be that the early ones weren’t all that well controlled. They had a high centre of gravity, and quite a bit of power. They were used to tow two-axle trailers like horse boxes a lot, and got a terrible reputation for…

They were designed, like the original Land Rover, as agricultural vehicles. The posh SUV craze was still 20 years away in 1969 when they first came out. Oh, and it’s leaning to the driver’s side because it’s going round a corner.

Fan-fucking-tastic. Just when I can afford to buy an old Range Rover, all the hyper-expensive restomod guys will start buying them up as ‘platforms’ for their teen wish fulfilment customers and the prices will go crazy. How long before they reach 911-levels of stupidity?

Yep, solid rear axle. I think the weaving happens when the axle untwists itself, often some time after a corner.

What I love about this is how crappy and hand made it all looks. The castings have rough edges, the cam bearing caps are machined from unfinished billets and some of the studs are a bit too long. This was the end of the era when you could literally build a competitive F1 car in a well-equipped garage.

Alec Issigonis tried it out on the mini in the late 1960s / early 1970s. By that stage in his career he was full of some quite barmy ideas, and BMC always seemed to feel obliged to let him run with them.

Nice to see the evolution of such an important car as the Audi 80 / VW Passat. Sadly, your article won’t convince the creationists that the entire range didn’t spring, perfect and fully developed, from the forests of Wolfsburg in 1973.

So, nobody thought it would be a good idea to send CKD Viva kits over in containers and just get Grumett to screw them together?

Well, even if he has to pay for the repairs himself, the owner isn’t going to lose money. F1 values are rising so fast that even after you take off the multi-thousand dollar servicing costs, the car is still making you many thousands of dollars a year in appreciation.

Totally this. Out of the billion or so VW-based ‘supercars’ made from the 60s to the early 80s, about five of them looked halfway decent, and only a couple of those actually looked good. The Coyote looks amazing, like a real life hotwheels. The Invader looks terrible, like a blob of silly putty.