This Chevrolet V8-powered Gilbern GT is no latter-day hybrid, either: it’s a unique and original factory-ordered car with a ...

Through life-size dioramas, army uniforms, weapons, personal belongings, photographs, documents and an impressive collection ...

Alejandro de Tomaso redefined Maserati for the next two decades with the 1982 Biturbo Still, it feels light on its feet and ...

One early tester was racing driver Mike Hawthorn, who reviewed a 122S for the Sunday Express and found its finish to be ‘as splendid as the Midnight Sun’ and the suspension ‘not too hard for rich and ...

Though superior in conception and quality to many of its homespun ilk, his little coupé – the first of 200 BMC-engined Gilbern GTs – was never intended as an uncompromising work of Lotus-style ...

At the end of the 1971 season this chassis, 917.020, was snapped up by millionaire US importer Vasek Polak for DM8000, a fraction of its original price, and, together with Le Mans winner 917.023, it ...

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 ...

It is slightly ironic that Dante Giacosa, Fiat’s legendary design engineer and father of the 500, 600 and 850 models, became a poster boy for front-wheel drive in his final years, establishing with ...

NSU had been building Fiats under licence since 1930 and fell out badly with the Italians over this new model being entirely of its own conception. The car’s detractors dismissed it as yet another ...

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 ...

But the panacea of the full-size sector had eluded what was, from 1969, British Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia, and then from 1972 Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia (as it aligned with ...

The process started in 2010 and, inevitably, the rot was worse than it first appeared. A lot of new metal was needed, including floors, rear quarters, inner rear arches, one complete rear wing and ...