His collection includes almost every classic make, including Fender, Epiphone, Gretsch, Martin, Sigma and Harley Benton. “Each guitar is different, just like each car is different,” he says. “They’ve ...

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 ...

When we last published a Ford Escort Mk1 Buyerʼs guide ( Classic & Sports Car, April 2015), a show-condition RS 2000 was ...

It was a messy end to the relationship, but the birth of one of the most fascinating, often baffling, motoring stories. The entire Monteverdi marque is shrouded in a certain amount of mystery, ...

Few cars have gained quite so much performance in such a small space of time as the first-generation Corvette. It’s a reflection of the tumultuous and, let’s be frank, ultimately unsuccessful ...

Or maybe Diana Dors; after all, she famously owned a Saoutchik Delahaye. In the end, the big Daimler’s closest brush with big-screen glamour was a cameo role in the 1953 Norman Wisdom comedy Trouble ...

The ‘RXD’ numberplate prefix shows it was a press car; Vauxhall was never shy of the publicity generated by product placement. It had an effortless kind of performance that was way beyond the ...

“However, it had only done 38,000 miles and had a beautiful interior – still with the factory BMC plastic on the rear seats. Compared to others I’d seen, the floorpans, chassis rails and spring ...

At the height of the 2020 COVID shutdown, my attention turned to the online auction sites. Datsun Zs had become a staple on Bring a Trailer, often nut-and-bolt rebuilds or low-mileage time capsules.

The collection includes popular classics such as a 1975 Vauxhall Firenza HPF Droop Snoot (pictured at the top of this page) and an FC Victor, as well as an example of the first 5hp Light Car of 1903 ...

To celebrate that much-missed duality of these glorious front-engined sports-racers, we have united two fabulous English rivals to discover which is the supreme all-rounder. Both had twin-cam straight ...

Rallying highlights included the 130 RS – aka ‘Porsche of the East’ – taking a one-two class win on the 1977 Rallye Monte-Carlo; in 1981, after the 120 was launched (becoming part of the Super Estelle ...