Blogs

Book signings at XK70

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.

Derek Bell’s dazzling Porsche career shows how the greatest never give up

May 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 car...

Youngster, Grandpa, Motor Car, Spy

  Since 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 magaz...

When a “drinking driver” and a Colditz prisoner won Le Mans in Jaguar’s C-type

Lewis 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 limeli...

Goodwood Members' Meeting. Different it certainly was!

How 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 ju...

Videos to interest the motor enthusiast

New 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 weathe...

First Lady of F1 Dies at 91

I 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 firs...

Another amazing experience at Retromobile 7-11 February

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...

For the Shelby Cobra, thank Chevy’s Corvette - and diseased chickens

“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-...

Let's not forget Stirling Moss was also a star of the stage

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-to...