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Drivers on Drivers – The cutting room floor

  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 ...

Discovering your car’s famous first owner

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...

Harvey Sykes and Stirling’s 1958/’59 Cooper-Climax

All photos copyright Harvey Sykes After coming across the story of Stirling’s 1959 Dutch Grand Prix comeback drive in the second part of our Stirling Moss – Mission Impossible series, Harvey Sykes...

Lance Macklin and Aston Martin - Part 1

Reproduced from previously unpublished autobiographical manuscripts.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: Bonha...

Lance Macklin and the HWM - Part 3

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 bendi...

SuperFinds wins Motorworld Book Prize 2021

We are pleased to announce that the Porter Press International publication, SuperFinds, by Michael Kliebenstein, has been awarded a 2021 Motorworld Book Prize. The award ceremony took place on Tue...

When Is A Box A Bonnet?

One of the most satisfying aspects of Porter Press is coming up with increasingly creative and off-the-wall ideas for our special editions.  For a number of years now, we have had a superb profes...

Lance Macklin and the HWM - Part 1

by Lance Macklin In 1949 I had one or two drives on the continent in the 6CL. Maserati which I co-owned with John Gordon. On top of this I was a member of the Aston Martin team that participated in...

Classic Car Collectors: Nigel Dawes

First published in Classic & Sportscar September 1986 His passion for collecting old cars led to Nigel Dawes becoming a classic car dealer, as Philip Porter discovered. Above: Two pedigreed ra...

The red ‘Green Goddess’ fit for a King

by Michael Kliebenstein The untold story of Daimler DE36 Drophead Coupe, Chassis # 51724, by Hooper & Co. Coachbuilders The details of what I am writing about here are not yet officially confi...