Eric Richardson

It might be the most undesirable of all the Porsche 911s, but it's still a frickin 911, and a bloody good one at that! Previously it was the classic lines of 964 that were getting all the attention, but the more modem 996 can look the bollocks with a few choice mods! Not only that, but you get all the creature comforts of a modern day machine, the water-cooled engine, 300bhp and shit loads of charisma too!

Work in progress - 1967 Austin A40 Farina. Family keeping. Father, mother and two daughters – the Hanley family are all pitching in to get this little Austin back on the road - words and photography by Eric Richardson. As the owner of any A40 Farina will tell you, once you get into a conversation about your car, there is about a 90 per cent chance you’ll hear one of two sentences. The first is usually: “I learned to drive in one of those”, a sentence delivered by those closer to their 60th birthday than they’d care to admit to. The second: “My dad had one of those”, is usually uttered by those enthusiasts who are somewhere in their forties.