How Much For a 1967 Eleanor Mustang? Author Elise | 16th December 2020 By Niamh Smith Reasons Behind The Madness There are not many movie cars as coveted and sought after as an Eleanor Ford Mustang, especially a 1967 Mustang fastback. It is one of the most famous and recognisable cars in cinematic history to muscle car fans all over the globe, and because of this cult fame, you can even now buy licensed replicas for a high price tag ... View
A Short History of Automotive Design Author Elise | 14th December 2020 By Charlotte Iggulden How Culture Has Shaped Car Design Like most things in life, automobiles do not exist in a vacuum. Their design and engineering respond to the zeitgeist: the spirit of the times. Throughout history, car designers and visual futurists have been profoundly influenced by technological and scientific advancements, politics, artistic movements, cultural trends and philosophy, whether optimistic or pessimistic. Where industrial design is broad, automotive design ... View
Chevrolet Super Sport – Classic Muscle Car Review Author Elise | 9th December 2020 By Charlotte Iggulden Super: Latin (preposition and v. prefix) meaning above, beyond, or in addition to an especially high degree; akin to Greek hyper. Before Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (1878-1941) co-founded the eponymous car manufacturing company, he was a mechanic, car designer and race car driver. You would not be wrong in saying performance runs in a Chevy muscle car’s veins. This is our classic Chevrolet SS review on the ... View
Owners’ Muscle Car Reviews UK—Charlie Fuller’s 1966 Mustang Author Elise | 2nd December 2020 Despite the abundance of car magazines and the multi-sensory overload of sophisticated websites dedicated to revelling in the glory that are classic V8 engines, few resources actually give people a sense of what it is to own and drive the car of your dreams every day. Websites are full of ads and reviews, forums are full of advice and opinions, while Youtube is full of cars ... View
Chevrolet Corvette Review – Classic Muscle Car Review 2020 Author Elise | 30th November 2020 By Niamh Smith America’s Sports Car: Chevrolet Corvette Review The Chevrolet Corvette is a piece of Americana. It is so easily recognisable, even people who aren’t particularly into cars can recognise an early Corvette when it rumbles down the street past them. As GM’s cropowning jewel, the ‘Vette has had more than 60 years of production and 8 generations and has been, in the most part, incredibly ... View
Oldsmobile 442 – Classic Muscle Car Review 2020 Author Elise | 25th November 2020 By Jamie Wills As there was Beyoncé Knowles, so there was Solange. As there was Michael Jackson, so there was Jermaine. And as there was Gary Lineker, so there was Wayne. The sibling fame bandwagon may have mixed results, but it has always been an irresistible lure. So it was in 1964 when Oldsmobile saw General Motors stablemate Pontiac GTO being released and hit pay dirt ... View
Autocar Review—Car Magazine Review Author Elise | 23rd November 2020 By Chris Williams It is very difficult to write a review of a car magazine/website as a petrolhead for one overarching reason: a visit to their website for an intel-gathering mission stays on course for all of thirty seconds before falling down an inescapable rabbit warren of distracting reviews and videos. There is nothing to be done but indulge until the appetite is satisfied some hours ... View
Ford Mercury Cougar – Muscle Car Review 2020 Author Elise | 20th November 2020 By Chris Williams Selecting the name ‘Cougar’ for the badge of your car was always going to be a double-edged sword. Frankly, it would not have mattered so much if the Mercury Cougar had been a harmless hatchback; the name ‘Cougar’ would have given it some feisty spice. Instead, the Mercury Cougar was designed as a grown-up muscle car and therefore completely analogous of its target market: ... View
Ladies With Drive – Candy Skene & Pilgrim AC Cobra Author Elise | 18th November 2020 After forty years of business, Pilgrim Motorsports (MCUK’s mother company) recently sold a Pilgrim AC Cobra Sumo to a female owner for the first time. The Ladies With Drive blog series we have going here loves it when women get involved in motorsports, so we thought we’d sit down and chat to Candy Skene about her rather impressive purchase. Candy, you recently bought a Cobra from ... View
AMC Javelin – Classic Muscle Car Review 2020 Author Elise | 12th November 2020 By Niamh Smith ‘And They’re Off!’ The AMC Javelin was one of the last pony cars to leave the stable. They had already been pipped to the post by the big three (GM, Ford and Chrysler) and had already “been there, done that, got the t-shirt!”. But for AMC, being late to the party wasn’t the disaster you would think. In fact, it saved them by the skin ... View