It's been a long time coming, but at last I've had a chance to redesign the site. Hopefully the new look will encourage me to update it more regularly - the old site hadn't been touched for about six months. Oops.No excuses, but (there's always a but) now I've got a proper job as Staff Writer on the UK's best selling classic car magazine Practical Classics I simply don't have as much spare time as I used to.

So what's the site about? Well it's all about cars and stuff. I aim to expand the site over the next few months, so keep an eye out for it, but for now - enjoy.

Ah, those were the days, when you could get away with a blatant advert on front of a national car magazine - this time from Autocar, 26 January 1962. The Majestic Major was produced between 1959 and 1968, using a 4,561 cc Edward Turner designed Hemi V8 engine developing 220 bhp at 5500 rpm and 283 lbft torque at 3,200 rpm. Top speed was reputed to be around 120 mph - eventually....