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Ettore and Jean Bugatti, by Mark Morris and Julius Kruta

Extract taken from Bugatti Type 50 - The autobiography of Bugatti's first Le Mans car, by Mark Morris and Julius Kruta Ettore Bugatti’s biography is the story of an ingenious engineer and restless ...

The Swansong of the Great

Above image: The Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8B Landaulette-de-Ville Imperial, by Castagna, in all its beauty.   By Michael Kliebenstein 1931 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8B Landaulette-de-Ville Imperial by Cas...

When 356 Does Not Equal 904, by Martin Emmison

DOUBLE DOPPELGANGERS As an English lawyer specialising in collector cars, I have handled many disputes, more than a fair share of which have featured Porsches. Starting in the 1980s, the surging va...

Jaguar C-type Replicas - The Uproar Grows In Volume

By Philip Porter To remind those not familiar with the current uproar: companies and individuals have been building replicas, particularly of C-type Jaguars, since the ’70s. Several companies have ...

Competition History

 Extract taken from Ford Model T - An Enthusiast's Guide  1908 to 1927 (all models and Variants) Above: After building the massive ‘999’ race car in 1902, Henry Ford was reluctant to drive it him...

Styling Inspiration? By Philip Porter

By Philip Porter In view of the legal turmoil currently in the Jaguar C-type world, I thought it might be amusing to dig out a few pages from my very first book, published in 1984.  Very new to thi...

The Malcolm Sayer Mysteries

By Philip Porter I am currently working on a completely new edition of a book I wrote for a massive publisher by the name of Orion, some 20 or so years ago about my E-type, with the obnoxious title...

E-type – The Fashion Icon

by Philip Porter All images by Abigail Humphries The E-type went on sale in 1961 and remained in production until 1974, bridging two decades that would come to define the fashion industry. Both th...

Speed sensation - Le Mans test weekend, 18/19 April 1964

The test weekend at the long, fast Le Mans circuit would provide better proof of how efficient Sami Klat’s hard work over the winter had been – particularly down the 3.7-mile Mulsanne straight. Ano...

A unique E-type SuperFind waiting to be found again

Above image: The early E-type SuperFind in Sicily, with only 23,000km from new. I miss my fantastic early E-type! It is exactly 35 years ago today that I bought my Jaguar E-type, and I can tell y...