The Clapham-built Allard that battled Mercedes at Le Mans
European and UK manufacturers ranging from Iso to De Tomaso and from Jensen to Sunbeam saw an easy route to performance by fitting big American V8 engines into their relatively…
This will be popular – because who doesn’t love an Alfa Romeo? As you’ll have gathered from the title, there’s no place here for the pre-World War II glory years.…
The F1 car in which Nigel Mansell took his first podium is now up for sale
How’s this for an automotive dream team? Carroll Shelby, Alejandro de Tomaso, Peter Brock and Medardo Fantuzzi. That was the quartet that came together exactly 60 years ago to develop…
To the uninitiated, Yamaha’s FZR750R OW01 might look like any other 1990s superbike with a name like a WiFi code – but to those who know, this is a true…
1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £3.3m Anyone who has seen the (original) Italian Job will likely have clear memories of the opening scenes showing a Lamborghini…
Fancy a bit of wind-in-the-hair motoring? Well, it doesn’t come much more ‘windy’ than this custom conversion of the insanely powerful Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170, the road-legal dragster that…
Enzo Ferrari might (allegedly) have described the Jaguar E-type as the most beautiful car in the world – but for my money, a Marcos 1800 GT in the right colour…
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…