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Approaching the EJS-Climax – Snusher chose the name for the car’s first race at Crystal Palace – it’s remarkable just how ...
In England, Montaut’s work is best known for the tile designs in Michelin House, the fabulous Art Nouveau landmark building at 81 Fulham Road, Chelsea. The former UK headquarters of the famous French ...
The Bugatti T57 was the car with which Ettore finally, reluctantly acknowledged that he had to bend to fashion, to go with ...
Superb handling was non-negotiable and achieved via the combination of a low centre of gravity, wide 205/60 tyres and ideal weight distribution. Thus, as the ’70s dawned, a more grown-up Lotus seemed ...
With VW committed to the concept of a front, transverse engine and front-wheel-drive platform (it had already acquired an early Fiat 128 and taken it back to component form for inspiration), ...
The early ’70s were exciting times, as I left the feathered nest of my family home to study at Shenstone New College and the University of Birmingham. I would occasionally spot a Lotus, admire its ...
With great memories of an epic Gullwing road trip years ago still fresh in the mind, I don’t hesitate when asked which car I want to drive first. Getting into this 1954 300SL feels very familiar, but ...
It was a time when the reputation of exotic, high-end cars almost thrived on the size of their price-tag and the perception of exclusivity it carried among well-heeled gentlefolk – the sort of people ...
It’s where now 79-year-old Peter snapped a photograph of the Morris in early May last year: on the exact spot where he’d scooped up the seriously rusty remains of the four-seater tourer 54 years ...
Why employ a driver when it was such a pleasure to take the wheel of your Silver Shadow? Who really needed massive amounts of legroom and seven seats in a 20ft-long car to travel a world in which such ...
The cute 790cc Publica Sport had kicked off Toyotaʼs image upgrade a year earlier, but here was a dream GT to rival the best from Coventry, Stuttgart and Detroit. Although its influences were clearly ...