Fast Marina Magazine

There's something about the scent of old British cars...

Part leather, part steel and part oil, with a faint hint of damp carpet, it's an aroma redolent of recalcitrant window wipers, mechanical breakdowns and cracked upholstery, but also of a distinct and indisputable style.

They’re not for everyone, those antiquated and once ubiquitous, bulbous wonders of the Empire, but they’re unquestionably a part of our history.

The late Ian Hope knew that. He had a singular fascination with the British automobile and spent a lifetime creating what is – disputably, perhaps – the largest museum of British cars in the world.