by glen@thewonderbook.com | Sep 14, 2025 | Articles
Image: Kieran Cleeves/PA Media Assignments, courtesy of Goodwood Although up at dawn, I was still late and stuck in a traffic jam. I didn’t mind because I was surrounded by lovely old Austins, Rovers, MGs and even a few 1950s Rolls and Bentleys on the way to The... 
by glen@thewonderbook.com | Jun 12, 2024 | Articles
You know that discussion experts have on a Friday night after they have been to the pub about who the greatest racing driver is ? All sorts of facts and figures are quoted and debated. Some might say Senna or Prost, some Schumacher and of course there’s... 
by glen@thewonderbook.com | Apr 10, 2024 | Articles
I am exhausted. I had no idea that a classic car show could be so big. You can spend all three days there and still not see everything. This might seem like a bold claim but if you like classic cars there is absolutely nothing you can’t see, learn, or buy at The... 
by glen@thewonderbook.com | Oct 15, 2023 | Articles
Perhaps this isn’t quite how Sir David Brown made the announcement but in 1955 Aston Martin moved from Feltham in West London to Newport Pagnell, a small and sleepy market town 50 miles north of London. This was before modern motorways so Aston Martin’s new home... 
by glen@thewonderbook.com | Oct 15, 2023 | Articles
I don’t know if you are familiar with London but if you come out of Old Street tube station and wander down the City Road towards Moorgate you pass what looks like the entrance to a medieval castle. This is the home of The Honourable Artillery Company who are... 
by glen@thewonderbook.com | Oct 15, 2023 | Articles
The problem we’ve all spent many sleepless nights wrestling with is the hierarchy of the cad. The journey from little rascal to a likeable rogue is easy to trace but the downward spiral from scoundrel to cad is more difficult to understand. The journey into darkness...
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