At the time, Stirling considered this his greatest drive. The Buenos Aires 1,000 Kilometres was a sports car race in which he was to share with Fangio the wheel of the new 4.5-litre V8 Maserati, the 450S. The organisers had...
This extract is taken from Chapter 4 of ‘Stirling Moss - The Definitive Biography Vol 1’, by Philip Porter The Bari GP was one of Stirling’s finest races to date. The grid contained the two 158 Alfas of Farina and...
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 style. We first met on a Guild...
There was no shortage of stunning cars at Salon Privé this year. With a heady cocktail of supercar launches, historic racers and serious classics, Salon Privé is rather different from other motoring events. It was also unusual, in 2020, in...
In 1973, at the age of 22, I acquired five Jaguar XKs and still have four of them. Apart from one, all were rusty relics in need of restoration and none more so than a 150 ‘S’ Fixed Head Coupe...
There was an added sense of excitement to this year’s Concours of Elegance in the wonderful surroundings of Hampton Court Palace. Clearly people were thrilled to attend a motoring event again and the dearth of such events only served to...
(all quotes and illustrations have been taken from the Stirling Moss Scrapbook 1956 - 60) Continuing our occasional series highlighting that Stirling was, above all, a racer. 1958 Nürburgring 1000Kms in Aston Martin DBR1 with Jack Brabham After retiring in...
Bob Blake was a remarkable and delightful man. A life member of the SCCA, in 1936 he started building race cars in Arlington, Virginia for Ted Horn and others. Stationed in England during the war with the US Third Army,...
We need your help, please! As mentioned in my Welcome, SuperFinds is an extraordinary book, compiled by Michael Kliebenstein. It is truly unique: nearly 900 photographs of historic racers, sports, GT and saloon (sedans) cars as found in the ‘60s...
By Philip Porter In the year 2000, a good friend and member of our International Jaguar XK Club was driving his 150 Drop Head in Switzerland when he had a slight overheating problem. In search of assistance, he called into...
Continuing our occasional series highlighting that Stirling was, above all, a racer. 1959 Dutch Grand Prix in Cooper-Climax at Zandvoort The Dutch Grand Prix which took place in 1959 was one of the races in which Moss suffered from the...
Interview by Philip Porter On a trip to Australia in 1996, I visited Ron Gaudion and we have been good friends ever since. Ron worked for Jaguar and then Ecurie Ecosse in the great days and has a fund of...
