The Showroom

Eyebrows lifted a couple of years ago when Jaguar Land Rover announced a sale of 140 vehicles, all of them as green as they could be, with not a petrol…

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…

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…

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…

Car of the month – morgan supersport So, Morgan’s gone modern? Absolutely. This new Supersport has been designed to replace the old flagship Plus Six model, but the Malvern marque…

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…

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…

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…

2011 Land Rover Defender 110 XS Sold by Collecting Cars, £125,500 Had it been a regular version in identical condition, this Defender would likely have sold for £100,000 less –…

Rear sets and silencers are high for maximum ground clearance Frame number confirms the bike as being one of the four Spaggiari racers This bike is extensively documented in a…

There was a time when the penultimate Type 964 series of Porsche’s air-cooled 911 were among the least-loved versions of Germany’s best-loved sports car. During the early 2000s, the ubiquity…

2022 McLaren 720S GT3X  Sold by Bonhams, £402,500 This was one of just 15 examples of the £750,000, track-only 720S GT3X. Still regarded by many as the ultimate McLaren driver’s…

This sinister-looking restomod began life as a cooking model Vauxhall Chevette finished in custard yellow. But, following a 16-month transformation by Leicestershire-based Retropower – which specialises in unique vehicle builds…

This impressive ‘evocation’ of the car that Jaguar hoped would mark its Le Mans comeback in the late 1960s has been priced at £20m-plus (on the advice of respected historic…

2006 McLaren MP4-21 Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £2m As Lewis Hamilton settles in with Ferrari, it’s not unrealistic to imagine that confirmed relics relating to his ground-breaking F1 debut with…

Described as “the winningest Cobra of them all”, this famed Shelby Cobra spearheaded Ford’s attack on both the SCCA A and B production series and the US Road Racing Championship.…

No muscle car aficionado would be fooled by it, but many a fan of the cult 1977 caper Smokey and the Bandit might do a double-take if they spotted this…