Motoring site directory

The owner’s reference: 16 car-ownership guides, a six-tool garage desk, Isle of Man official links, a kit counter and printable vehicle records.

The history of the motor car in plain English: Cugnot’s steam tractor, Benz and Daimler, Bertha Benz’s drive, the Model T, the Red Flag Act, the Mini and the land speed record, with games and printables.

How a car engine works in plain English: the four-stroke cycle, petrol and diesel, spark plugs, camshafts and flywheels, gears and horsepower, and the inventors from Lenoir to Wankel, with games and printables.

The TVR, the guided tram on rubber tyres that ran in Nancy and Caen from 2000 to 2023. Not the sports car. How it worked, why only 50 were sold, and what replaced it.

The Gyro-X, the 1967 two-wheeled car held upright by a spinning flywheel. The claims, the reality, and its rebuild at the Lane Motor Museum.

Ford’s 1958 atomic car, which never got beyond a 3/8-scale model. The idea, the design, the problems and where the model is now.

Buckminster Fuller’s three-wheeled car of 1933: rear engine, front-wheel drive and steering from the tail. Only three were built. How it worked, what really happened in Chicago in October 1933, and the one car that survives.

Chrysler’s 1963 gas turbine car: 50 bronze, Ghia-bodied coupes lent free to 203 American drivers, then mostly destroyed. How the turbine worked, the loan programme, the nine survivors and the tall tales checked.

Hub van Doorne’s belt-driven automatic: two rubber belts on pulleys that changed size, first shown in the DAF 600 in 1958 and used in every DAF car and in Volvos until 1991. How it worked, the cars, reverse racing, and how it became today’s CVT.

Sir Clive Sinclair’s battery-assisted tricycle of 1985, legally a pedal cycle you could drive at 14 without a licence. Not the Citroën C5. Why it had pedals, how it worked, the lorry tests, Hoover, the receivership and the unsold stock.

The German amphibious convertible sold from 1961, mostly in America: a Triumph Herald engine at the back, two propellers under the tail and front wheels that steer it afloat. Who built it, what 770 really meant, the leaks, the 1965 Channel crossing, President Johnson’s lake trick and how many survive.