Fleet Review;- The Grand Unveiling of the Official Car of RoadworkUK

Were this a proper website, surely every car manufacturer represented in the land would be tripping over themselves to furnish me with a long-term demonstrator, in the hope of this leading to praise gushing from these pages. As this is instead an amateur, update-when-it-suits-me type of operation, and is of course fiercely independent and won’t be lead by the corporate might of any organisation, I have to go it alone.

So, with no delivery-mileage Maserati glinting at me from the driveway, here, with great ceremony, is the newly adopted official car of RoadworkUK.

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Fleet Review;- Remembering a Rover 820e

My grandfather is a veteran of world war two; with the RCAF he flew Lancasters and Halifaxes from Eastmoor in Yorkshire. After spending the war flying “twenty thousand rivets flying in close formation” over the ack-ack heavy skies of a burning Germany, it was clear that any car he would own would have to be imbued with some kind of mechanical allure. In fact, things started well with a pre-war Jaguar SS, albeit a heavily decomposed one with mushrooms sprouting from the wooden floorboards. He would later work through various big Humbers and Vauxhalls and company Fords right up to 1990, when be bought his first Rover. The one car I have loved most in my life.

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