Another 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!...
“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...
Stirling 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...
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...
