Archive Chopard Mille Miglia watch commemorates Moss’s greatest race victory “On May 1st, motor racing history was made, for Stirling Moss won the 1000-mile Mille Miglia, the first time this has been achieved by a British driver, and I had… August 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Big-tailed Plymouth Superbird is an auction star 1970 Plymouth Superbird Sold by Mecum auctions, £227,580 With its distinctive nose and towering rear wing, the Plymouth Superbird was not a car for the shy – especially when painted… July 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Ferrari F50 ordered by Ralph Lauren goes to auction The deliciously analogue F40 – Ferrari’s 40th anniversary supercar – was a tough act to follow, but at least the Prancing Horse had a decade in which to develop something… July 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive How about a 2CV open-top for Le Mans? Off to the Le Mans 24 Hours (as a spectator, we mean) and looking for a head-turning car in which to do the journey? A regular Citroen 2CV wouldn’t really… July 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive TAG Heuer revives Formula 1 watch Twenty twenty-five is a renaissance year for TAG Heuer. With parent company LVMH becoming the main sponsor of Formula 1, the driver-orientated watchmaker reprises the role of official timekeeper it… July 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Star of legendary Nürburgring film sells for a cool £4.7m 1989 RUF CTR Yellowbird Sold by Gooding & Company, £4.7m Digital technology, drones and YouTube may have taken filming to new heights but there are few examples of automotive footage… June 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive One-off Aston Martin 'Ice Cream Van' set to be auctioned In last month’s pages we briefly mentioned the forthcoming appearance of this unique Aston Martin, flagging-up the fact that it’s likely to be one of the star lots at the… June 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Speedwell-spec Austin A35 is race ready for Goodwood It was back in 2014 that Historic Racing Drivers Club founder Julius Thurgood conceived the HRDC Academy, a controlled race series for Austin A30 and A35 cars built to identical… June 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Timepieces for the motoring mad If anyone had told me a week ago that I’d return from a trip to Daventry feeling dazed and amazed, I would never have believed them. But that was before… June 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Citroën 2CV built to tackle Sahara sells for £52k 1964 CitroËn 2CV Sahara Sold by Artcurial, £52,180 Citroën’s solution to making a four-wheel-drive 2CV was simply to put one engine in the front and a second one in the… May 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive You gotta Röhrl with it This very early Porsche 911 2-litre might appear relatively ordinary at first glance. And it was, until 30 years into its life when the then-owner had it converted to race… May 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive The Lola T70 that miraculously survived racing’s hardest chargers Were this car a battle-hardened soldier, it would have been the type on which fortune inexplicably smiled, the type who could zig-zag through a minefield without setting anything off, or… May 2025 Issue By Simon de Burton