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The event saw the launch of a brand-new venture for us – our first children’s book. There were also plenty of book signing sessions with some of our authors.Read now
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Derek Bell’s dazzling Porsche career shows how the greatest never give up
Read nowMay 09, 2018 You might expect a professional racing driver who’s won Le Mans five times and represented Ferrari in Formula One to have led a charmed life, but Derek Bell drove as many terrible cars as great ones during...
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Youngster, Grandpa, Motor Car, Spy
Read nowSince starting work at Porter Press International, the XK Club and E-type Club in July 2017, I have been involved in many different activities. I have proofread books; written and designed magazine pages for the XK Club, the E-type...
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When a “drinking driver” and a Colditz prisoner won Le Mans in Jaguar’s C-type
Read nowLewis isn’t the only Hamilton to have achieved international success as a racing driver. Exuberant Englishman Duncan Hamilton, sometimes nicknamed ‘Drunken Duncan’, also enjoyed time in the limelight after winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1953 - and later...
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Goodwood Members' Meeting. Different it certainly was!
Read nowHow we managed to avoid suffering from frostbite, I will never know. A combination of low temperatures, cruel wind and gentle, but pervasive, snow was a challenge to say the least. Saturday was just about bearable, helped by rather better sales on...
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Videos to interest the motor enthusiast
Read nowNew for spring is our new Porter Press video channel. Our aim is to make regular short films that either tie in with our books or are of general interest to enthusiasts. Now that the winter weather is – hopefully – behind us,...
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First Lady of F1 Dies at 91
Read nowI was very sad to hear that Bette Hill, Graham Hill's widow and Damon's mother has died. It was in 2006 that Bette acquired a copy of the first Scrapbook I wrote with Stirling Moss, the very first book that...
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Another amazing experience at Retromobile 7-11 February
Read nowAnother amazing experience at Retromobile 7-11 February. Once again, we were extremely privileged to attend as guests on the stand of Lukas Hüni, surrounded by a truly incredible collection of cars. A very august setting for our display of books!...
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For the Shelby Cobra, thank Chevy’s Corvette - and diseased chickens
Read now“When I first saw the Shelby Cobra,” said Dan Gurney in recollection of a day at Riverside Raceway, California, in spring 1963, “it looked almost laughable. Here was a British sports car with pre-World War II design features that had...
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Let's not forget Stirling Moss was also a star of the stage
Read nowStirling Moss, rally driver. That’s not a phrase you’ll find easily, if at all, in recent media reports announcing the retirement from public life of our favourite English knight. Yet any pieced-together picture of Stirling’s career must show rallying for...
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Sir Stirling Moss retires after seven decades of public life
Read nowI have just heard the news that Sir Stirling has decided to fully retire. My immediate reaction is that few people, if anyone ever, have deserved retirement more than Stirling. Full of energy until his illness a year ago,...
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Tazio Nuvolari and the Alfa Romeo Monza: when two legends collided
Read nowTazio Nuvolari, the racing driver acclaimed by Enzo Ferrari as the greatest he had ever seen, said that he expected to die at the wheel of a car. Nuvolari had the disadvantage of being short and skinny in an era...