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Was the first Porsche built in Italy?

For those of you who think they know all about Porsche and its cars, here is a fascinating story that may surprise. On my travels I came cross a cute red car with a double-bubble roof, sitting in N...

Stirling Moss on the Maserati 250F

When Stirling Moss’s attempts during the early 1950s to achieve Formula 1 success in British cars bore little fruit, he finally concluded that he had to look abroad for a competitive car. He turned...

Milestone Anniversary

Record-breaking 2020 for UK-based specialist publisher Sir Stirling Moss’s scrapbooks laid the foundations for company’s success Motoring legends and top collectors pay tribute to Porter Press ...

A Doppelganger Discredited

By Martin Emmison First published in Sports Car Market, June 2004. With any collectible there is always an issue of authenticity, whether art, antiquities, baseball cards or automobiles. In the col...

Busy times with Ecurie Ecosse

On 7 April 1954, XKC 051, XKC 052 and XKC 053 were sold to Ecurie Ecosse. The three cars were registered in Edinburgh the same month, becoming, respectively, LSF 420, LFS 672 and LFS 671. They were...

The book I always wanted, and have now written!

By Chas Parker For over 50 years, renowned motor sport and aviation artist Michael Turner annually produced a set of paintings depicting stand-out moments from that year’s Formula One and sports ca...

Prancing Horse or a lame duck?

We recall a historics star who developed his own strain of competition Ferrari Fabrizio Violati is perhaps best remembered for his famous – some might say notorious - Maranello Rosso collection of...

How I found the 1958 Abarth-Colani Alfa Romeo Aerodynamica

By Michael Kliebenstein During a SuperFinds book signing in Italy, a very friendly elderly man approached me. I was just about to sign his copy when, all of a sudden, he showed me his mobile phone,...

1957 Buenos Aires 1000Kms in Maserati 300S

At the time, Stirling considered this his greatest drive. The Buenos Aires 1,000 Kilometres was a sports car race in which he was to share with Fangio the wheel of the new 4.5-litre V8 Maserati, th...

Stirling Moss - Important Steps - 1950, by Philip Porter

This extract is taken from Chapter 4 of ‘Stirling Moss - The Definitive Biography Vol 1’, by Philip Porter  The Bari GP was one of Stirling’s finest races to date. The grid contained the two 158 A...