This article is about the TD21, TE21 and finally, the TF21 models produced during the 1960s.
Alvis were a top class manufacturer of prestigious and expensive luxury cars and had been making vehicles since just after the end of the First World War in 1919.
Initially, the cars were aimed more at the well off sporting motorist and, after the war, Alvis tried to resume this tradition with the TA 14 and TB 14 although the design was very much based on the pre-war styles. The engine used in these models was a development of the engine of pre-war days and was a straight 4 design of 2 litre capacity.
The 1950s and 60s saw a perfusion of fast, hairy-chested but at the same time fun, sports cars roll out of the many car manufacturers in the British Isles. All of them were individual and all of them were statements of intention as much as they were designed as transport and the Triumph TR4 was no exception. 
I was reading a copy of Autocar dated August 1968 recently and I came across an advert for Rambler cars which caused me to do some research. 
Today a Rolls Royce Phantom, should you be thinking of buying one, will set you back a cool £250,000 to £300,000 which is not exactly peanuts! But how did the Rolls Royce look in the 1960s? Was it relatively cheaper or more expensive?
Inspired in part by British design and appearing between 1965 and 1976, the Peugeot 204 in one of its many guises was a popular car and a common sight on British roads.
The Austin Healey (Frogeye) Sprite was almost my first car but I got the MG Midget instead. However, this remains one of the finest, the best and certainly the most distinctive of the early 1960s sports cars!
After the Mk 9 Jaguar came, logically enough, the MK 10 and this was to be one of the most successful Jaguar saloons of the 1960s era, creating a benchmark in silky smooth performance and comfort as well as creating one of the most distinctive and instantly recognisable cars of all time.
A successor to the fabulous and very successful Jensen 541R we look at the Jensen CV8, the sports car that everyone (including me) wanted in the early 1960s.