Keith Martin

The 48th Annual All-British Field meet, held annually at Portland International Raceway, has come and gone. With over 600 vehicles, it bills itself as the “largest three-day celebration of British cars in America.” The Jaguar Club of Oregon was the host club this year (different clubs take on this duty in a rotating fashion). At…

The 48th annual All British Field Meet will be held at Portland International Raceway on September 5, 6, and 7. It is the longest-running and largest three-day all British-car meet in the Americas. Over 600 cars and motorcycles are expected. Tickets are still available. They are just $15 at the gate, and get you full…

Keith is on a multi-day driving tour with his family. His blog will be back next week. Until then, enjoy these photos from the road.

Cars and big screens have had more than their fair share of my attention this past weekend. Friday, it was “F1 the Movie” at an IMAX theater. Sunday, it was the Pebble Beach Concours streamed live on my 60-inch Sanyo TV. The movie was much more expensive than viewing Pebble from afar. I was mildly…

For the past couple of weeks, you’ve been telling me your preferences when it comes to collector car tours. You prefer point-to-point for the routes, but hub-and-spoke for the convenience. You like 1974 as a cutoff date so that all the cars have a similar performance envelope. You wouldn’t mind stretching it a little to…

There is no shortage of car tours. They range from no-cost afternoon club tours to expensive, all-inclusive, super-deluxe, five-star to five-star routes with entries limited to modern supercars. When the first California Mille was held in 1990, it offered one of the few opportunities to exercise your classic car with other similar vehicles. As the…

The routes of classic car tours generally fall into one of two patterns, point-to-point or hub-and spoke. The grandfather of classic car tours is the Mille Miglia. Originally a race first held in 1927, it was point-to-point, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. The event was reborn as a “timed rally style” tour in 1977,…

Last week I wrote about taking our 1971 Jaguar E-type SIII V12 coupe on a club run to Timberline Lodge, about a 120-mile round trip. Rick Martin, a fellow SIII owner and friend, did the driving. He kept remarking how “good and tight” the car felt compared to other E-types he had driven. We had…

We purchased our 1971 Series III V12 Jaguar E-type on Bring a Trailer on Feb 28, 2020. Price including commission was $39,375. It was represented as having 22k original miles, and all original surfaces, in and out. The chassis number is 1S71487BW. When I plugged that into the search field in our SCM Platinum Auction…

At last, my son has picked out a car that he actually wants. After suffering through my C3 Corvette and off-road Disco Land Rover fantasies, Bradley wanted a car that worked for his own Gen Z sensibilities. He began peppering my inbox with 1980s and 1990s cars, particularly Volvo wagons. My area of Volvo expertise…