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The late Jim Morrison, front man for The Doors, liked to expose himself on stage, and kick back with a bevy of beauties and a head-warping cocktail of drugs after a performance. He might not be the ideal candidate for a role model, but Morrison penned a few lyrics which lucidly described the philosophies and morals by which we should live our lives. Now while some Doors’ songs focused on Morrison’s Oedipus complex (the desire to murder Daddy and marry Mummy), Morrison prescribed a simple formula for safe driving when he wrote Roadhouse Blues. In the opening lines of the song, Morrison barks ‘keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel’ with as much aggressive affirmation as Adolf Hitler delivering one of his Nuremburg Rally speeches.

Reader resto 1978 Lotus Esprit S1. The guy who loves me. After it had languished in a barn for three decades, Matt Oxley took just eighteen months to transform a £200 wreck into a white-hot wedge. Words by Martyn Morgan-Jones photography by Gez Hughes.

This restored 1927 Morris Cowley, built at the end of 1927, has passed through a fair number of hands in recent years and was offered at Brightwells' auction at the end of November. Originally a saloon, it was found as a chassis in Kent in '89 and fitted with a new four-seat tourer body by Cookes of Nottingham, with an interior retrim in grey leather, a rebuilt engine, plus an overhauled Dynastart and magneto. A new hood and sidescreens were fitted in '92.