http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog News and views , the spiritual home of the British motor industry. Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:12:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ..you'll be sure to find an old car or two! Or so it seems. I was out of the office on Wednesday (yay!) to visit the Polybush factory in Wrexham. On the way there we shot past an old army base near Whitchurch in Shropshire. I know this place well as ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=100 Yes folks, happy new year. I hope you all had a lovely festive holiday, or Christmas as it used to be known in less politically correct times. I've made a few bold New Years Resolutions which I would like to share with you as I sit here writing this, drinking gin ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=96 Well it's been a busy old time lately, hence the lack of blogging so sorry about that. Where to start? Well I've managed to get a little bit of work done on Project Austin A55. It's been looking much worse than I first thought - which is bad. I started to ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=91 Yep, the new project car is now saved and back at motor-blog HQ. Admittedly it's a teensy-weensy little bit worse than I thought, but that's what a project should be - a little bit of challenge. All I have to do now is buy myself a welder... ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=87 Well it's here at last, the new Ford KA. I've a sneaky feeling that the prototype car I've seen around Coventry recently could well have been a new KA getting some mileage put on it. Anyhoos, We have a brand spankers German registered car on test at work at the ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=69 Talk about flogging a dead horse... Citroën has released details of a special edition of what they call their 'funky' convertible supermini, the C3 Pluriel. What everyone else calls it in this, the age of electric hardtopped CC cars, is pointless. The Pluriel has not been an altogether success - removing the roof ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=70 Oh yes, here she is. After almost a year of procrastination I'm very close to at last taking delivery of my latest project car. I've even almost paid for it too, almost... But I do have in my greasy mitts the V5 (note not V5C!) I've made a little video ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=73 As you've probably all heard by now, our wonderful Festival of Motoring has been cancelled due to bad weather. This is especially bad as I was entered in it again this year and it also puts pay to the saying - 'it never rains on the Shakespeare run', because up ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=67 Yep, I've seen another one. This one was parked up at my local shops as I was driving past on Friday. Usually when I see these cars they are on the move, so this one was too good an opportunity to pass up. I parked the car, grabbed my camera ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=64 Yes I know it may seem crazy to travel almost 300 miles round trip to go to a classic car show, but hey, that's what lifes all about isn't it? I jumped in Susan (with repaired gearbox - see staff car sagas in the upcoming October 08 issue of Practical Classics) and ... http://www.motor-blog.co.uk/blog/?p=57