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The Richard Heseltine Column - What's In A Name?

By Richard Heseltine What’s in a name? Rather a lot as it happens. Automobile manufacturers blow millions on think tanks brimmed with chin-stroking thesaurus-wielders but to what end? All they do i...

Maverick The Car Thief - Part 2, by Mark Cole

Read Maverick The Car Thief - Part 1 Mark Cole continues his fascinating story of actor James Garner and the making of the iconic motor racing movie - Grand Prix  Frankenheimer’s filming at Monaco ...

BRP’s Indianapolis Swan Song - Part 3

The two cars had already arrived in the US less the engines. On arrival at Indianapolis airport, they were towed by rope to the team’s garage at the track. Masten Gregory’s team found digs for Geor...

Première Night - part 2, by Serge Vanbockryck

Monocoques and wings Defeated in 1952 by a lack of reliability, rather than Mercedes speed,  Jaguar returned with a vengeance in 1953 and with the next big thing in auto racing: the three British G...

A Very Brave Little Driver

By Chas Parker April 12 this year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most outstanding displays of wet-weather driving ever seen. Chas Parker recalls the 1970 BOAC 1000 kms. A blue car pierces...

The Richard Heseltine column - Road Trips: the fun and frustration

By Richard Heseltine The lesson drawn from the exchange was simple – don’t ask. The question was: “Whose Lada is this?” It is May 2006 and all is not well. On reflection, agreeing to a road trip i...

BRP’s Indianapolis Swan Song, part 2

By Ian Wagstaff ‘Indy fever is even visible in London as the BRP mechanics under Tony Robinson are building a couple of very nice semi-monocoque cars for Masten Gregory and Friend,’ wrote Henry N M...

Maverick The Car Thief - Part 1

Mark Cole on actor/racer James Garner and the making of the the iconic motor racing movie - Grand Prix Hollywood actor James Garner had always been one of my boyhood heroes through his Maverick TV ...

Brian Johnson’s Fond Memories of Stirling

I first met the legendary rock star Brian Johnson when he visited us to film an edition of his TV series Cars That Rock on the Jaguar E-type and drove 9600 HP, my Geneva launch Press car, and we ha...

Première Night - part 1, by Serge Vanbockryck

For the first time in some years, the 2020 Le Mans 24-Hours will again feature a ‘Garage 56’ entry featuring ‘innovative technology’. But the routes nationales of La Sarthe have always been a non-s...