For the purposes of this test, we’re replacing four rather perished Avon ZT5s on a 1977 Reliant Scimitar GTE. To be fair they’d performed well enough, but a year or so’s inactivity due to relocating ...

Young car-spotters might have known them best either from copies of their Ladybird or Observer’s books, or from the TV, where – in a time when cars had a look that defined their country of origin – ...