Simply Super or Happily Hyper?
Are Atoms and Nomads supercars? We know that they are pretty intense and very exciting – capable of generating the ‘tingle’ at 50 paces, but are they ‘supercars’? To find out, the Ariel Club grabbed …
Pistonheads Atom 3/3.5 Buyer’s Guide
Those fine fellows over at Pistonheads have put together a new buyers guide for the Atom 3/3.5. It is actually pretty good, with only a few inaccuracies. If you are in the market for the …
What a ray of sunshine
By way of a quick recap – my 2018 K20 Atom 3.5 is slowly being upgraded to 3.5R spec. The current project is getting it rolling on a staggered set of Dymags. A suitable set …
Spring has sprung!
The plan was simple: meet up and head down to Winchester Auto Barn for the first cars’n’coffee breakfast bash of the season. First rally point was at the trusty Tott’s Hill Services on the A34 …
Winchester Auto Barn Breakfast Club Meet 26/03/22 – next week!
Spring is about to, well, spring. So that means it is time to roll your Atom, Nomad or Ace out of the garage, pull back the covers and hit the open road. Or if you …
Steve the Stripper
A quick progress update on the refurbishment of our second (or third) hand set of Dymags. As Steve from Turner Powder Coating Services (commonly known as ‘Dymag Steve’ on account of him having more years …
DYMAG Steve, the crack detective
Light cars, are as we know, sexy. They are sexy because they go, stop and handle better than heavy cars and accelerative motion is what we hairless apes crave. We use the pursuit of lightness …
Es are good, Ebeneezer Goode
Back in my day of working for Aunty, journalists were expected to check their own copy before hitting ‘publish’. Seems our good friend Jonny Smith got so excited by the raw thrills he experienced when …