When researching a Rolls-Royce 20HP Cabriolet by Barker (ex-Maharadja of Baroda) in a castle in Luxembourg with my good friend Richard Biddulph, we stumbled across an incredible pair of Aston Martins. To our great surprise, one of them turned out...
by Wayne Batty When Rolls-Royce and Bentley dealer Harold Radford branched out into coachbuilding in 1948 with a wood-framed estate car conversion of the Bentley Mk VI, he probably had no idea that it would lead to his name becoming...
I was shocked and greatly saddened when Doug Nye emailed to say our mutual very good friend Adrian 'Hammy' Hamilton had died. I had the great pleasure of interviewing his father Duncan, the 1953 Le Mans winner, in the early...
* Opportunity to change the law to stop JLR crushing UK replica manufacturers * All enthusiasts need to act now – deadline end of August * Replicas will still be manufactured in non-EU countries, harming UK plc With legal threats,...
Read Part 1 Reproduced from previously unpublished autobiographical manuscripts. I drove the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hours with Eric Thompson. I think he was a friend of John Wyer but as far as I was concerned he was unknown. I...
A recent symposium, titled ‘Restoration – Art or Science?’, put the spotlight firmly on the future preservation of historic vehicles. Held in Bucharest, the well-attended live symposium, supported by FIVA (the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens or international federation of...
Editing has begun on an exciting new book titled Drivers on Drivers, which is a series of interviews where the racing greats are encouraged to talk about their rivals and team-mates rather than themselves. Because of this, many great...
by Brian Tyrer While reading the Porter Profiles book, Jaguar XK 120 – The Story of 660725, Brian Tyrer discovered an interesting link between his own Aston Martin DB2 and Chan Lye Choon, the first owner of 660725. I was...
Reproduced from previously unpublished autobiographical manuscripts. Above: One of three Aston Martin Works Team DB2 prototypes being built in the original Feltham factory in Essex. (credit: Bonhams) My first race for Astons was at Spa (24-hour race) in ’49 where...
Michael‘s SuperFinds Initially, I thought it was a hoax. Just one of those middle-of-the-night phone calls, when a guy wakes you up and tells you about this incredible ‘Aston Healey’, or even worse, a super rare ‘Austin Martin’ race car....
Read Part 1 | Read Part 2 With the help of the smaller truck they got themselves to the garage where only a few weeks previously they had kept the racing cars. There, after much welding and bending of metal,...
The Land Rover Legends event, which took place at a sun-soaked Thruxton Race Circuit over the weekend of 12-13 June, played host to the National Land Rover Awards. Held for the third time since its 2018 inception (2020 was cancelled due...
