Editing has begun on an exciting new book titled Drivers on Drivers, which is a series of interviews where the racing greats are encouraged to talk about their rivals and team-mates rather than themselves. Because of this, many great...
Above: Photo by Philip Porter Apart from great opportunities to chat with current and potential Porter Press customers, sell books and drink expensive coffee, the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed was a feast for fans of the automobile. As ever, legends...
by Brian Tyrer While reading the Porter Profiles book, Jaguar XK 120 – The Story of 660725, Brian Tyrer discovered an interesting link between his own Aston Martin DB2 and Chan Lye Choon, the first owner of 660725. I was...
Not an unusual headline for followers of historic racing, but at this year's Festival of Speed, Jaguar’s first Lightweight E-type was honoured for a different reason, winning its class at Goodwood’s Cartier Style et Luxe concours. This rewarding turn of...
All photos copyright Harvey Sykes After coming across the story of Stirling’s 1959 Dutch Grand Prix comeback drive in the second part of our Stirling Moss – Mission Impossible series, Harvey Sykes contacted us. As the current owner of that...
Reproduced from previously unpublished autobiographical manuscripts. Above: One of three Aston Martin Works Team DB2 prototypes being built in the original Feltham factory in Essex. (credit: Bonhams) My first race for Astons was at Spa (24-hour race) in ’49 where...
STOP PRESS (23/03/23): We are exceptionally pleased to say that the Magnussons have won their appeal against the lower Swedish court's decision in favour of JLR with regard to their C-type replica which JLR were insisting they must destroy. Not only have the...
Michael‘s SuperFinds Initially, I thought it was a hoax. Just one of those middle-of-the-night phone calls, when a guy wakes you up and tells you about this incredible ‘Aston Healey’, or even worse, a super rare ‘Austin Martin’ race car....
Read Part 1 | Read Part 2 With the help of the smaller truck they got themselves to the garage where only a few weeks previously they had kept the racing cars. There, after much welding and bending of metal,...
The Land Rover Legends event, which took place at a sun-soaked Thruxton Race Circuit over the weekend of 12-13 June, played host to the National Land Rover Awards. Held for the third time since its 2018 inception (2020 was cancelled due...
We are pleased to announce that the Porter Press International publication, SuperFinds, by Michael Kliebenstein, has been awarded a 2021 Motorworld Book Prize. The award ceremony took place on Tuesday, 22 June at Motorworld Munich. For the last 15 years,...
One of the most satisfying aspects of Porter Press is coming up with increasingly creative and off-the-wall ideas for our special editions. For a number of years now, we have had a superb professional relationship with Paul Kidson and his...
