Blogs

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...

Sir Stirling Moss retires after seven decades of public life

  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 u...

Tazio Nuvolari and the Alfa Romeo Monza: when two legends collided

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 s...