I’m feeling pretty chuffed with myself at present, as I’ve just managed to tick off another item from my wish-list of automotive lifetime ambitions and one that’s taken around 35 years to realise.
And here is the reason for that unbridled joy – meet my 1949 Riley RMB, which I spent a weekend driving home from Devon at the end of April. A fabulous car, and the route home via the A39 Lynton/Lynmouth, Porlock, Minehead, Watchet and Bridgwater road is one of my favourite old-car driving routes in Britain. It really does have everything – fabulous views across to South Wales, challenging hills up
