I 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,...
Tazio 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...
Ferrari: Under the Skin – for learning groups from Design Museum on Vimeo. One of the surprises to be found in Ferrari: Under the Skin, currently showing at the Design Museum in London, is a short film from 1976...
Ford went into a third consecutive year of trying to win the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1966, still hell-bent on a mission declared when its attempt to buy-out Ferrari had been snubbed. This was a bitter rivalry in which...
Austin Healey – The Story of DD 300, is the first in the ‘Porter Profiles’ Collection, which is the newest addition to the Porter Press family. Proudly joining its siblings, the ‘Great Cars’ and ‘Exceptional Cars’ Collections, ‘Porter Profiles’ provides...
We will shortly be welcoming the third in our ‘Exceptional Cars’ series, when stablemates Iso Bizzarrini – The remarkable history of A3/C 0222 and Jaguar XK 120 – The remarkable history of JWK 651 are joined by Ford GT40...
To see one of today’s Formula 1 drivers participating in a club race for production-based sports cars, you’d first have to take a trailer-load of psychedelic drugs, but that’s exactly what thousands of perfectly sober spectators saw for real one...
A dirt-smeared, oil-stained Ford GT40 looked oddly out of place at the 1968 Paris Motor Show in the company of so many perfectly polished road cars, but there it was, centre-stage on the Blue Oval’s stand, heroic in the blue-and-orange...
To be an automotive book publisher had always been an ambition of mine. Having written about 20 motoring books, or motor books as I believe they are known in the USA, I took the plunge in 2005 and my wife and I...
I hadn’t actually realised that ‘bookcase envy’ was a thing, until receiving this photo. It’s always lovely to hear from happy readers, and Mr Roger Ellis shared this to show how he displays his ‘Great Cars’ collection. Thank you, Roger!...
It may not have the instant name-recognition of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, but Hereford’s Courtyard Theatre was the place to be last Thursday (26th) as the location for the hottest awards ceremony of 2017. Above: Albert Wall with Philip...
