Blogs

The turbine-powered IndyCar you’ve never heard of

The 1960s witnessed a seismic shift in how IndyCars were designed. The front-engined Roadsters were on borrowed time the moment Jack Brabham and the Cooper Car Company rocked up for the 1961 runnin...

Mythical SuperFinds, by Martin Emmison

First published in Sports Car Market, June 2005 What are the chances of there being two basket-case Gullwings in Indonesia, with consecutive chassis numbers? Say you’ve just come into some extra ca...

Style and More Style - Salon Privé 2020, by Philip Porter

There was no shortage of stunning cars at Salon Privé this year. With a heady cocktail of supercar launches, historic racers and serious classics, Salon Privé is rather different from other motorin...

SuperFinds and Coincidences, by Philip Porter

In 1973, at the age of 22, I acquired five Jaguar XKs and still have four of them. Apart from one, all were rusty relics in need of restoration and none more so than a 150 ‘S’ Fixed Head Coupe whic...

Lagonda M45 Streamline Coupe by Brainsby Woolard

Michael's SuperFinds Meandering through Austria in order to research a 770 pre-war Mercedes, I was told about a unique Lagonda Streamliner sitting in Italy. Strange I thought, ‘Lagondas don‘t usual...

The Bevo Boats

By Richard Heseltine Coachbuilding is an artform, and one I find fascinating. I was recently asked to write a feature on the most creative metal-wielding firms of yesteryear and, remarkably enough,...

The FAKE or the FALL Guy, by Martin Emmison

First published in Sports Car Market, December 2003. The Villain dreams up a deceased uncle, who was friendly with the racing manager at the Ferrari factory team in the late '50s, and was given thi...

Elegance Exemplified by Philip Porter

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 t...

Number One Land-Rover, by Martin Port

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 d...

Car Studio Photography by John Colley

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 r...