Sophia Loren‘s 300 SL Birthday Celebration?
As luck would have it, during Monterey Car Week in August, we met Bill Heinecke, one of the biggest car collectors, who regularly exhibits...
Restoring Grandpa’s Porsche 356
In 1963, Ernie Royal, a chemist at LTV Steel in Youngstown, Ohio, got the itch to buy a sports car. He found the ’55...
Collectable Aeroplanes – Of All Shapes and Sizes
As mentioned in my last story about the Goodwood Revival the only disappointing element was the relative absence of the flying displays that are...
Can Am – The Craziest Motorsport Series In History
From the late sixties to the mid-seventies, the Can Am motorsport series was the craziest and most extreme thing that ever happened in international...
Sign Of Its Times: Ferrari 275 GTB
Reflecting the optimistic zeitgeist of the era, the Ferrari 275 GTB launched in 1964, setting new parameters for the aesthetics of car design while...
Goodwood Revival – Part 2 – More Than Just Racing
For me the main draw of the Goodwood Revival is watching and capturing on “film” the on track racing.But the event offers so much...
The Motorsport Scrapbook (4)
In 1969 Lotus entered its new mid-engine 2-litre Type 62 sports car in the BOAC 500 world championship race at Brands Hatch. The car,...
A Ferrari Like A Ferrari
The F355 rolled off the assembly line in Maranello thirty years ago this year. It was the best V8 that Ferrari ever made. A...
The Motorsport Scrapbook (3)
Strolling around the rather basic, dusty area referred to as the Crystal Palace paddock on a warm sunny morning at the end of May,...
Ferrari – Masterpieces For The Road And The Racetrack
If you were to ask ten Ferraristas what they consider to be the ultimate masterpieces of the legendary Italian car manufacturer Ferrari, you would...
Goodwood Revival – Part 1 – Wet and Dry Racing
My family and I lived in Canada back in the 1990’s. In a country with such extreme variations in climate the first thing we...
Hans Stuck & The Porsche 962 Group C
It’s now 40 years since Porsche’s 962 Group C race car made its competitive debut, with 77 examples of the all-conquering prototype raced worldwide...
