The number of Retropower projects based upon cars designed and sold in the 1990s has exploded in recent years, a reflection of the ever increasing popularity of cult cars made in the decade of Beanie Babies, Jungle and (original) Hooch. There’s more to this than mere nostalgia of course, namely...
Retropower has come to be defined by extreme projects, those powered by lairy engines from rival manufacturers, exotic sequential transmissions and clean sheet, one-off suspension setups. Exc ited as we undoubtedly are by the prospect of custom work of this kind, it’s also true that our staff are just as happy...
No ifs, no buts, everyone loves a Mk2 Escort. Whether your passion for Ford’s mid ’70s mid range star stems from childhood memories watching the likes of Ari Vatanen and Roger Clark’s giant killing in the British woods, formative years spent tinkering with Pintos and Crossflows, or merely an appreciation...
Empires fall, cultures morph and fashions change, but throughout it all one thing remains true - the undeniable mechanical brilliance of mid ‘70s Mercedes Benzes. Mercs from this era seemed he wn from granite and over engineered to the point of parody, traits which enabled the company to further burnish its...
Difficult as it might be to imagine now that the sport of rallying is both polished and ultra professional, there was a time when certain events were all but impossible to predict. The rallies in question tended to be long haul jaunts, the kind which pitted competitors against one another...