
The converters : Owen Sedanca
The Owen Sedanca was an amazing coupe, based on the 1970s Jaguar XJ6 and built by Panther Westwinds. Only three were made, but they now have a cult following… […]
The Owen Sedanca was an amazing coupe, based on the 1970s Jaguar XJ6 and built by Panther Westwinds. Only three were made, but they now have a cult following… […]
Keith Adams tells the story of how Tickford helped Ford reinvent its iconic 1600E… In 1989, the Escort and Orion were coming to the end of their production run, and […]
Keith Adams tells the story of the Tickford Capri, and how it made it from drawing board to production… Back in 1981, former Gold Leaf Team Lotus and Yardley Team […]
Keith Adams tells the story of the Tickford-updated Triumph Stag from 1982. Would you have bought one? Tickford was asked in 1982 to upgrade a Black 1975 Triumph Stag for […]
Frazer established itself as a new car company in 1981, offering this fabulous-looking Tickford Metro, which was first shown at that year’s London Motorfair. The Tickford name was owned by […]
Keith Adams tells the story of the Ford RS200’s path to production, and Tickford’s role in the process. The RS200 was a pure two-seater, mid-engined, four-wheel-drive car designed for Group […]
The Rover 75 was stretched rather successfully by MacNeillie & Sons following on from the 800-based Regency. This led to the converter bagging the contract to build factory Vanden Plas […]
Crayford Engineering sought to produce an interesting variation on the TR7 theme, and ended up hatching out this little beauty. Now restored and owned by Chris Turner, the Chairman of […]
Two years before Crayford Engineering commenced selling convertible versions of the BMC 1100/1300, Jensen created this prototype ragtop. The idea was to convince BMC to sub-contract the firm to build […]
It would appear that BMC could have defined the Volkswagen Golf class a decade or so before the Germans got around to it. Meet the BMC 1100-based Creech Mystique… This […]
The BMC 1100/1300 was a brilliant car out of the box, but that didn’t stop Crayford Engineering improving it, by offering a split-tailgate conversion that anticipated the hatchback-bodied Morris Nomad. […]
The BMC 1100/1300 was the only BMC/BL model to be offered as both an estate and convertible by Crayford Engineering (although these models were not marketed concurrently), but it’s the […]
You’d be hard-pressed to tell that the stunning Rapport Forté was based on the Jaguar XJ… Designed as a folding-hardtop cabriolet, years before they were fashionable, the project failed before […]
Borrowing its name from the Citroën CX, the Rover Prestige was Wood & Pickett’s luxury version of the SD1… It came in many variants, and could be built exactly to […]
Unbelievably, the Metro Cooper was not offered as a ‘factory-backed’ conversion, even though it came with a blue-chip pedigree. However, there was a good reason why John Cooper Garages ended […]
Ladbroke Avon put together an interesting upmarket version of the Acclaim. It was initially only made available through the Henlys franchise, before being offered to a wider audience after the […]
The Towns Hustler: not so much a car, more a way of life… There’s so much more to this amazing kit car than its extraordinary looks – Keith Adams tells […]
The Railton marque, first seen in Britain in the 1930s, was revived in 1989 with a pair of Towns-designed tourers based on the XJ-S convertible. However, it failed on the […]
It seems that few – if any – of these Crayford convertibles actually reached customers before the company decided to concentrate on its Fiesta conversions. And it had a Dr […]
While several companies were quick to start tuning the Metro, Rapport was the first offer a soft-top version. Rapport took a novel approach to maintaining structural rigidity, by leaving half […]
This subtly stretched 800 Sterling revived a name which was abandoned by the Rover Group in 2005. The styling looked rather similar to a factory-developed version of the 800, too… […]
Another name from the Mini’s heyday returned to the mainstream in 1980, turning its attention to the Austin Metro. They were extraordinary vehicles, the Wood & Pickett Laser Metro and […]
And here is the car that the Princess should always have been: Crayford produced its own hatchback versions of the 18-22 Series/Princess, but at a time when the five-door saloon […]
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