By Wayne Batty How diorama builder Nico Ongena uses the illusion of scale to capture visual magic. Three years ago, Nico Ongena began a new hobby: taking photographs of relatively cheap 1/64 scale model cars with his smartphone. From the...
Backfire from a famous Brooklands racer By Michael Kliebenstein Above: Chris Staniland behind the wheel of the magnificent Multi-Union. The car is airborne at the notorious bump at Brooklands Outer Circuit.The air was cold and musty as we made our...
By Michael Kliebenstein How I came to own what was likely the first safety car in Formula 1 Above: The gargantuan Rolls-Royce Phantom I, chassis 84FH, was converted in 1940 for the RAF into a shooting brake to carry spares...
Peter Burn recalls a wonderful little memory from September 1965, just four months after he first joined Autosport.
'Before I even had a company car, I was – rather at the last minute – despatched to Crewe, by train, to meet up with John Bolster to photograph the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow at its launch.'
By Wayne Batty There’s even earlier history here, but the last time Porsche went top-tier endurance racing in both the North American IMSA series and the FIA’s WEC (née World Sportscar Championship) in the same season was all the way...
By Michael Kliebenstein Read part one of France in the '70s A year later, I returned to Dijon, again buying myself a very cheap Citroën Traction Avant 11 Légère to travel around in. I think it was 150 francs. Cruising...
By Wayne Batty At the tender and still impressionable age of 13, Philip Porter received, as a birthday gift from his parents, a veritable tome on Bugatti written by the great expert Hugh Conway. Poring over those pages again and...
By Micheal Kliebenstein Of all the amazing places I’ve experienced over the years, my most fond memories are of France in the seventies. Yes, I belong to a generation that grew up with the images of France’s La Nouvelle Vague...
STOP PRESS (23/03/23): We are exceptionally pleased to say that the Magnussons have won their appeal against the lower Swedish court's decision in favour of JLR with regard to their C-type replica which JLR were insisting they must destroy. Not only have the...
By Michael KliebensteinWhenever I see a very significant race car still sporting its original steering wheel, racing seat and instruments, it always affects me. I feel it especially when I know that a great name once sat on that seat in...
