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…
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…
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…
Car of the month – Lotus Emira Clark Edition Undeniably a Lotus... Correct, and that’s the entire point. Lotus has always been a brand big on its history… and never…
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…