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By Stewart Longhurst Photos by Peter Harholdt. Images are of an original Vanwall VM5, part of the Miles Collier Collections at the Revs Institute.   19 October 2020 - just a couple of weeks ago - marked 62 years since...

It was Goodwood but not as we know it!  It was great to be back at the finest historic motoring racing circuit in the world but it was mighty strange that the place was eerily lacking in spectators and the...

By Stewart Longhurst Photos courtesy GTO Engineering As David Wheeler pointed out in his latest book Ferrari 250 GTE - the family car that funded racing, nearly two hundred Ferrari 250 GTE chassis are known to have been rebodied to...

So far in my automotive career, I have designed upwards of 50 cars but the Rocket stands out as a very important and personal design for many reasons. Firstly, Chris and I had been talking about doing a car together...

By Ian Wagstaff First published in http://dailysportscar.com/ My first sight of the BRM P167 Can-Am car had been at Hockenheim in 1971. Having lapped virtually the whole Interserie field, Brian Redman was still sideways round the SudKurve with the chequered...

The 1960s witnessed a seismic shift in how IndyCars were designed. The front-engined Roadsters were on borrowed time the moment Jack Brabham and the Cooper Car Company rocked up for the 1961 running of the Indianapolis 500. ‘Black Jack’ prompted...

There was no shortage of stunning cars at Salon Privé this year. With a heady cocktail of supercar launches, historic racers and serious classics, Salon Privé is rather different from other motoring events. It was also unusual, in 2020, in...

Michael's SuperFinds Meandering through Austria in order to research a 770 pre-war Mercedes, I was told about a unique Lagonda Streamliner sitting in Italy. Strange I thought, ‘Lagondas don‘t usually find their way into Italy’. I duly made a note...

First published in Sports Car Market, December 2003. The Villain dreams up a deceased uncle, who was friendly with the racing manager at the Ferrari factory team in the late '50s, and was given this tired and clapped-out team car...

There was an added sense of excitement to this year’s Concours of Elegance in the wonderful surroundings of Hampton Court Palace. Clearly people were thrilled to attend a motoring event again and the dearth of such events only served to...

Fangio’s 1957 Monaco-winning Maserati 250F, Stirling Moss’s 1961 Monaco-winning Lotus 18, the unique Lumsden-Sargent Lightweight E-type, Raymond Mays’s glorious ERA R4D and other iconic historic racing cars have left their tyre marks, and the odd drip of oil, on my...