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Above: Chassis 3 AZ 43 was ordered new by HRH the Duke of Kent, youngest son of King George V.   1936 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Touring Saloon by Barker for HRH the Duke of Kent, chassis 3 AZ 43. After a...

For the 1960 race, Stirling was paired with the American, Dan Gurney, and they were to drive a Birdcage Maserati, entered by ‘Lucky' Casner's Camoradi team. Stirling and Dan had already suffered from their lack of professionalism at Sebring. When...

Above: Johnny hustling the Formula 3 Team BP Ralt RT3/83 to victory at Thruxton in 1984. (Steve Rendle) Sadly, last month we lost another popular motorsport figure – Johnny Dumfries, probably best known for co-driving Jaguar’s XJR-9LM to victory at Le...

By Michael Kliebenstein Above: The Aston Martin DB5 on arrival at Stanhope Mews in 1984. A proud moment. In the late summer of 1984, I was sitting in my tiny flat in Stanhope Mews, South Kensington, reading a very inspiring...

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...

An extract from the forthcoming book on 9600 HP, E-type development prototype, press launch car and road-test car. At seven o’clock on a cold winter’s evening in 1961, a sleek Gunmetal Grey prototype of what is to be the most...

‘I believe that Murray Walker was as important to the success of motorsport in the last three decades of the previous millennium as the drivers. It was he who took the sport, the show, to the masses and made it...

Extract taken from Bugatti Type 50 - The autobiography of Bugatti's first Le Mans car, by Mark Morris and Julius Kruta Ettore Bugatti’s biography is the story of an ingenious engineer and restless businessman who — despite all the setbacks...

Above image: The Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8B Landaulette-de-Ville Imperial, by Castagna, in all its beauty.   By Michael Kliebenstein 1931 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8B Landaulette-de-Ville Imperial by Castagna, chassis #1714 The original Milano, New York and London Motor Show carToday, I finally...