The 1100/1300 was the only BMC/BL model to be offered as both an estate and convertible by Crayford (although these models were not marketed concurrently). You can also find out below about a couple of other attempts to give the 1100 a hatchback and soft-top… Estates/Hatchbacks Crayford 1100 Estate Hitting the market a couple of [...]

The ADO16 was BMC’s best selling car during the 1960s, and as a result, it lived a long and varied life. This timeline, compiled by Michael Schaefer, has put the car’s illustrious career into factual order. Year Date (where known) Details 1962 March Production of the MG 1100 (and presumably the Morris as well) began [...]

Harriman’s Concorde? austin-rover.co.uk gets its second ADO16 for test; and after taking it for a quick spin, Keith Adams feels the need to espouse the car’s vitues. Yet again… Written in 2004 THE best of British: it is an oft-used cliché, but does anyone really use it in conjunction with anything remotely good these days? [...]

While the 1100 was an Issigonis concept from the outset, it took Italy’s Pininfarina to give the car its undeniable style. This page was contributed by Declan Berridge

The final fling THE JAGUAR 420/Daimler Sovereign was the final variation of the original Utah project that evolved into the Mk1, Mk2 and S-type saloons. And if that story was not confusing enough the 420 had a similar moniker to the big 420G saloon, a revised MkX, which was announced at the same time. But [...]

Bridging the gap AS IF the story of Jaguar’s compact saloons was not complicated enough already – what with the original Mk1 mutating into the Mk2 and then the 240/340 – they spawned two further offshoots, the similar looking S-type and the 420. Not to mention the Daimler variant of that model. Both the S-type [...]

A new way forward THE compact Jaguar saloons of the 1950s and 1960s will forever be associated, in the minds of Britons of a certain age at least, with the late actor John Thaw. In the 1970s Britcop series The Sweeney, Thaw in the guise of Jack Regan, usually ended up chasing a dilapidated Jag [...]

Keith Adams Well it’s been a few weeks since I managed to prise the keys for my Rover SD1 from the hands of my mate Scott Brownlee, and all I can say is that it’s running like a train. Mike Humble has done a truly magnificent job turning this good looking but mechanically glitchy classic [...]

A look at some of the less likely extinct cars in the UK, according to data supplied by the brilliant How Many Left? website based on DVLA data.  6: Lada Riva 1300L The Soviet Union gave Western Europe more than just the threat of Nuclear oblivion and premium Vodka but for example – cars. The Lada [...]