In creating the Vision SLR, Mercedes stylists unashamedly looked to the past, mating design cues from the original 300SLR – campaigned so successfully throughout the ’50s by the likes of Fangio, Moss ...
Known unofficially as the ‘NART’ Spyder, after Chinetti’s North American Racing Team, the first 275GTB/4S was entered in the ...
His collection includes almost every classic make, including Fender, Epiphone, Gretsch, Martin, Sigma and Harley Benton.
With their feisty twin-cam four-pots, five-speed transmissions, fine handling and top-drawer styling from the biggest name in the business – Pininfarina – these endearing soft-tops represent to the ...
The oldest car here – the dinky 1935 Super Sports – marks the final days of Morgan’s three-wheeled products in the previous century, a design template that had served it well since Henry Frederick ...
Rarer still on these shores is the Jeep CJ-7. If you want one on your drive you’re going to be waiting a while for the classifieds to come up with the goods. And best of luck finding one remotely ...
As soon as the stunning blue-black Bugatti pulls out of specialist Ivan Dutton’s Oxfordshire base, it’s as if the supercharged coupé knows its way back to first owner Earl Howe’s estate. The return of ...
Sales forecasts of 10,000 units a year did not seem unreasonable. True enough, its new unitary body was no ravishing beauty, yet, as a means of walking a fine line between good looks and increasingly ...
But I’m right about a few things. The engineers and designers were hugely talented and enthusiastic and, above all, able to work very quickly with very limited resources. The result of the quickfire ...
The lightweight pistons, when adopted at Bentley’s behest by the likes of Rolls-Royce and Sunbeam for their aero engines, played an important part in the British war effort from 1914-1918 – an ...
The little MG did just that straight away, taking class honours in the 1961 RAC Rally and the following year’s Rallye Monte-Carlo, while the two streamlined fastback ‘Jacobs’ Midgets did similar in ...