WELCOME TO THE WORKSHOP
Now, I have spent a lot of hours at the wheel of older cars, but never have I driven for as long, and quite as far as I drove recently in the Practical Classics/Lancaster Insurance VW Van. I drove at an average of around 55mph from Cambridge to Beaulieu, to Woolacombe, back to Kent, then all the way up to Bamburgh and back via Norfolk over the course of five days. At every stop we (the team came along too in their own classics) were greeted by you lot, the fantastic readers of this magazine. I should feel absolutely dead, but I don’t and there is a simple reason. When you drive at a slower pace, and you know there’s no point in even trying, you change gear in your brain.…