Patrick Quinn’s feature on the front-wheel-drive Alvis in Vintage Roadcar struck a special chord with me, because his experience parallels my own. I was aware of the Alvis more than 50 years ago, there was a photograph in one of the few books on cars or motor racing stocked by my local library. There was little else, but I was intrigued because Alvis had become the maker of only vaguely sporting cars. In the late 1950s, there was no way…
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