Sixty years of Road Testing Classic Cars Stuart Bladon's long career as a motoring journalist has seen him test drive thousands of cars. He has seen motoring change from no speed limits, no motorways and new cars costing less than £300 to the world of today. Often flying cars out to Belgium to test on their straight roads, he has driven a Bond three-wheeler, a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, covered the European car rallies, and achieved many awards for economy driving. He was the first person to be issued with a parking ticket in the UK, the second to pass the advanced driving test of the Institute of Advanced Motorists, and drove all the way along the first 70 miles of the M1 while under construction in 1959. He had many close shaves during his career including run-ins with the law and brushes with death and this book recounts the best of his adventures. AUTHOR: Stuart Bladon has been a motoring journalist for over 60 years, of which 26 were spent on the staff of Autocar magazine. He enjoyed road testing thousands of cars across his career and even picked up a couple of motoring awards to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records. He has written a number of books including Save Money on Your car, Tackle Car Maintenance and Range Rover Companion and is a member of the Guild of Motoring writers and the Caravan Writers Guild. SELLING POINTS: ? With a foreword by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu ? The author, a motoring journalist for over 60 years, drove over 300 cars a year for 26 years ? Features 70 classic cars from the Morris 8 to the Jaguar E Type, Ford Zodiac, Lotus Cortina, Austin Healey 3000, Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, AC Aceca, Daimler Sovereign, Lamborghini Miura and Mazda RX7 ? With unpublished images, illustrating nearly every car 16pp colour and 80 b/w illustrations
