Blogs

Historic car restoration’s challenging future

A recent symposium, titled ‘Restoration – Art or Science?’, put the spotlight firmly on the future preservation of historic vehicles. Held in Bucharest, the well-attended live symposium, supported...

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 ...

Goodwood FoS 2021 Gallery

Above: Photo by Philip Porter Apart from great opportunities to chat with current and potential Porter Press customers, sell books and drink expensive coffee, the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed...

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...

4 WPD shines at Goodwood

Not an unusual headline for followers of historic racing, but at this year's Festival of Speed, Jaguar’s first Lightweight E-type was honoured for a different reason, winning its class at Goodwood...

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Reproduced from previously unpublished autobiographical manuscripts.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...

Is JLR tarnishing its brand?

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 ...

On the trail of the Aston Martin DB3/1 Prototype

Michael‘s SuperFinds Initially, I thought it was a hoax. Just one of those middle-of-the-night phone calls, when a guy wakes you up and tells you about this incredible ‘Aston Healey’, or even worse...

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...