Blogs

Surprises at the Design Museum’s Ferrari exhibition 

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 sho...

The bad omens that plagued Ford before its GT40 Le Mans 1-2-3

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...

Introducing Porter Profiles, our latest collection of motoring books

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 ‘E...

Exceptional Cars – Bizzarrini, Jaguar XK and Ford GT40

  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 65...

Jim Clark, a famous Austin-Healey, and racing diversity unimaginable today

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 thousan...

Motoring Book Publishers UK

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...

Bookcase Envy

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 ‘...

Gordon Murray exhibition: an appetiser for our work-in-progress

We were privileged to attend the opening of Gordon Murray’s one-off exhibition celebrating his 50 years of vehicle design and engineering. Staged at the new Gordon Murray Design facility in Dunsfol...

‘Tis the Season of Awards

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 awa...

Here are some I made earlier....

Lovely to hear from Neil Murray, a recent purchaser of the C-Type Autobiography. In his own words, Neil is an ‘Aston Martin’ man, through and through, so his interest in this classic Jaguar might ...