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...
JUE 477, the first production Land-Rover and chassis number one sat for 30 years in a Northumberland field. Exposed to the elements, it was eventually moved under cover in 1998, yet arguably that did it no favours as the leaking,...
Fangio’s 1957 Monaco-winning Maserati 250F, Stirling Moss’s 1961 Monaco-winning Lotus 18, the unique Lumsden-Sargent Lightweight E-type, Raymond Mays’s glorious ERA R4D and other iconic historic racing cars have left their tyre marks, and the odd drip of oil, on my...
Books by Richard Heseltine Mallalieu was a name that, for a brief period in the 1970s, was rarely out of the specialist motoring press. Marque founder, Derry Mallalieu, built his Bentley MkVI-based creation in the mid-1960s while living in Connecticut. The...
Read Part 1 first During this time, a young Formula Ford driver called Andy Rouse asked Broad for an engine for his Dulon; he came away with both an engine and a job as a Broadspeed mechanic to pay for...
The Mini was not only a style icon; it provided some of the best racing of the 1960s: ask anyone who followed the sport in those days. Reputations were made behind the wheels of the little buzz-boxes: John Fitzpatrick and...
Update August 6 2020 Martin Port updates us on his forthcoming book on theTrans Africa Land Rover When I first photographed the rather down-at-heel 1959 Series II Land-Rover that sat, covered in ivy, outside a Shepherd’s Bush townhouse, I had...
(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,...
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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...
Steady on! Richard Heseltine recalls legendary journalist Ronald ‘Steady’ Barker, an amusing and learned man to the last. A recent conversation with a 70-something enthusiast wasn’t anything of the sort. It was more of a haranguing. Apparently, motoring writers these...
