Blogs

Ralph Broad, The Wizard of Brum - Part 1

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-box...

Author Updates

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 iv...

Moss - Mission Impossible 3, by Philip Porter

(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 1000K...

Bob Blake of Cunningham, by Philip Porter

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 w...

Can You Help with SuperFinds?

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, ...

Richard Heseltine recalls legendary journalist Ronald ‘Steady’ Barker

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 th...

Swiss Role - A chance meeting that led to the discovery of over 100 classic cars

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 a...

A Little of The Goode Life

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, t...

Dan Wheldon, by Ian Wagstaff

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...

The Richard Heseltine Column - The Agony and the …. Agony!

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’ ...