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...
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...
Richard Goode’s entertaining autobiography - Living The Goode Life, at Full Throttle - covers the many fascinating periods of his life: as a child in Africa, playing with cars while at Cambridge, the varied facets to his business career and...
From 2005 to 2012, British drivers dominated the results at the Indianapolis 500, winning outright on five occasions. Two of those victories, as well as a pair of seconds, a third and a fourth fell to the late Dan Wheldon....
It is perhaps a sad reflection on me, but I am drawn to obscure films for reasons I have never been able to explain. Moths show greater resistance to flame. I would rather sit through a ‘Euro-Spy’ espionage flick from...
By Ian Wagstaff Back in late 1988, Ian Wagstaff visited the late-Phil Hill at his Santa Monica-based Hill & Vaughn classic car restoration business to talk about road cars. The following, never before published, article was written at the time....
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...
Founded in 1552, Bedford School is one of the UK’s oldest Public Schools, with an illustrious academic, military and sporting history. Its alumni include seven Olympic gold medal winners, 24 rugby internationals, five recipients of the Victoria Cross and a...
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...
By Serge Vanbockryck Run from 1982 till 1990, Group C was arguably the most spectacular period in sportscar racing, with a record number of manufacturers involved and spectators attending. To master the fuel consumption limits, the engine designers had to...
He stretched self-deprecation beyond its elastic limits. Either that, or he was simply disinterested in what had happened decades ago. With Alan Mann, it was hard to tell. This sometime racer, team principal, and tycoon wasn’t the easiest of men...
