Blogs

Driving a GT40

Ultimate Ford GT40 author Mark Cole recalls his one-and-only Ford GT40 drive, more than 50 years ago During my time as sports editor of Hot Car magazine in the 1970s I had the chance to drive so...

The Twists and Turns of Research

Part of the fun of writing and publishing is the research, and the occasional surprise. Chas Parker is currently working on our next Exceptional Cars book, this one featuring the famous SS Jaguar ...

Group C Porsche Party

By Serge Vanbockryck For as long as I could remember I’d heard nothing but the best possible comments about the motorsport events that the Duke of Richmond and his team organised each year in Goodw...

Classified Treasure

While searching through his collection of old German magazines, our great friend Michael Kliebenstein came across this lovely advertisement placed circa 1971 by then sole Lamborghini importer and G...

A Chronometric Wonderland

By Michael Kliebenstein Fine instruments are the windows to the soul of classic and vintage cars. Seeing a huge, beautiful Jaeger tachometer with an original matt cream dial face for the first time...

Michael's Superfinds - Classic Cabin Fever

While driving my 1962 Jaguar E-type Roadster on a dreary winter morning, I realised that my passion for classic sports cars and their interiors started very early on in life.  Above: An early morn...

SuperFinds: Erich’s Engines, and a Morgan

My friend Erich is the most ardent engine fanatic I know. Regardless of whether they’re steam-driven or petrol-powered, he absolutely loves their inherent mechanical beauty. His only proviso is the...

One for the Archives, by Wayne Batty

On a trip to Stuttgart back in 2012, I was afforded an opportunity to visit Porsche’s archive as well as its then ‘semi-secret’ new storage facility. Frank Jung holds the position now, but Dieter L...

Drivers on Drivers Extracts, by Philip Porter

The following are brief extracts from Drivers on Drivers which features interviews with Hamilton, Moss, Webber, Andretti, Bell, Hopkirk, Russell, Hill, Stewart, Fittipaldi, Pirro, Scheckter, Norris...

Michael's SuperFinds

Returning from an exhaustive driving tour from Genoa to Munich, I took time to digest my more recent SuperFinds in the southern parts of Europe. My book SuperFinds, published by Porter Press last y...