“Somebody even traded in a Triumph Mayflower in the scrappage scheme a few years ago, along with a bunch of MGBs.” probably all rusted beyond saving. and we’re really not short of MGBs.

I'd be slightly concerned if my co-driver needed reminders of which way is left and which is right printed on the dashboard.

"I see a lot of mistakes made along the way in what they provided," Hedrick said. In addition, he said the VINs come not from Land Rover itself but from the Heritage Motor Centre in England, so he's seen "no records to substantiate their authenticity."

This is awful. It's like someone's taken the nose of a mark 2 MX-5 and slapped it on the front of the Gt86 without thinking whether it's a good idea.

That's a grand total of 17 major carmakers, 20 if you count race car and military manufacturers, and 21 if you count marine engines as well. Not a bad run."

Of course, the XJR-15 and R390 are very closely related to each other, with Mr Walkinshaw never one to fork out for a new tub design when he had an old one lying around he could sell someone (see last week's XJR-14/MXR-01/TWR-Joest-Porsche LMP story for instance).

dangit, you beat me to it...

Oooh, that's a (very slightly) modified Saitek X52 HOTAS throtttle. I've got one of those on order (for piloting pretend spaceships in a PC game, not for operating the doors on my beweaponed bus, for which I use a simple toggle switch from an old MGB.)

I live just down the road from the Aston Martin factory at Gaydon. They have a bit of a parking shortage so lots of people park on the grass out front. There is someone working there who daily-drives a KARR replica and parks it outside. (KARR being KITT's 'evil twin', distinguished by a two-tone black and silver paint…

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Ferrari had form with inside-out Vee's - this is from the 1967 312 F1 car.

Jalopnik Deity Dan Gurney built, and I think sold, a number of similar bikes a few years ago... http://www.motorcyclecruiser.com/riding-dan-gur…

The smart fortwo is built in France. the town might be called Hambach, but it's in Lorraine, one of those bits of France that's been both French and German. if the Catera counts on country of manufacture, then I'd argue that the Smart doesn't (by about 5km. or 94 years, depending on your point of view).

Grand Prix by 90's Scottish indie band Teenage Fanclub. The car is a 1994 Simtek, as driven by the late Roland Ratzenberger.

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK - The Nissan Figaro:

Once, while walking in London, an old blue Aston Martin DBS pulled out in front of me. As it passed, I did a double-take. It was definitely a DBS, but it had four doors. That wasn't right. So I looked it up. There were seven built, badged as Lagondas. Aside from race cars, that's probably the rarest far I've ever seen…

Lola did shut down, but some teams are still running the cars - Mazda in the US, and for this one race, the Swiss "Rebellion" Team used thier lolas for one more race as their brand new cars meant for this year weren't quite ready.

For the first hour, Audi led, but when the first bout of rain came, they made a significant tactical blunder by keeping the front-running car out when Toyota pitted. that lost them almost a lap. They certainly weren't dominating.

I always liked these, ever since first seeing the prototype in the first car magazine I ever bought. It had a really cool nickname - "Tomcat" - because the roofline reminded the engineers of the canopy of an F-14. Rover may have been building on Honda's base, but they did some serious work to that platform that honda…

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