Blogs

Il Maestro and ‘The Turtle’, by Richard Heseltine

By Richard Heseltine Giorgetto Giugiaro is nothing if not an overachiever: a man with a gilded resume that includes umpteen landmark post-war design icons. Nonetheless, ask him to comment on his pa...

Selection of Michael Turner's Motorsport Paintings

Early in the season, Stirling Moss was seriously injured at Goodwood, ending his career. The championship was therefore between Graham Hill, in the BRM P57, and Jim Clark, in his Lotus-Climax 25, w...

Michael Turner's Story, by Philip Porter

Michael Turner has been established at the very top of his profession as a motor racing artist for many decades. His work is universally known throughout the motoring world, as is his distinctive s...

The Thomas Sommer Superfinds Collection

Adapted from the book SuperFinds by Michael Kliebenstein Although he is an accomplished businessman and has given his name in sponsorship to his local Bundesliga football stadium, Thomas Sommer ten...

A Selection of Early Gordon Murray Sketches

Above: Gordon Murray's initial sketches of potential spaceframe arrangements with one (of 6 September 1989) showing the first incarnation of the final Rocket body shape. Sketches copyright Gordon ...

Rocket - In Gordon Murray's words

So far in my automotive career, I have designed upwards of 50 cars but the Rocket stands out as a very important and personal design for many reasons. Firstly, Chris and I had been talking about do...

Michael‘s SuperFinds: The mysterious racer

By Michael Kliebenstein   When I was researching cars in Italy for a client, I got a call from my friend Paolo telling me that he had seen a very mysterious race car in Vicenza. The mystery being ...

BRM P167 Can-Am

By Ian Wagstaff First published in http://dailysportscar.com/ My first sight of the BRM P167 Can-Am car had been at Hockenheim in 1971. Having lapped virtually the whole Interserie field, Brian Red...

The turbine-powered IndyCar you’ve never heard of

The 1960s witnessed a seismic shift in how IndyCars were designed. The front-engined Roadsters were on borrowed time the moment Jack Brabham and the Cooper Car Company rocked up for the 1961 runnin...

Mythical SuperFinds, by Martin Emmison

First published in Sports Car Market, June 2005 What are the chances of there being two basket-case Gullwings in Indonesia, with consecutive chassis numbers? Say you’ve just come into some extra ca...