When architectural photographer Daniel Hopkinson and architect John Piercy Holroyd both arrived for an assignment in Alfa Romeo 159s, the pair discovered a mutual passion for old cars and Modernist ...

In fact, he was known to reserve the least affection of all for the SP250 Dart, a model that had already bombed embarrassingly (and expensively) in the North American market for which it was intended.

Developed in-house, the Convertible was the range-topper with a clever folding hood that stowed flush beneath the rear deck ...

In July 1966, while the rest of the country developed World Cup fever, Hine set about trying to cure the smoky engine that ...

The 2088cc ‘four’ from Standard’s Vanguard was chosen after a little smoke-and-mirrors by Peter Morgan, circumventing his father’s dictat – that the new engine must be less than 1750cc to mitigate any ...

Seemingly designed solely with the use of a set square, the boxy little HA was the baby of the Vauxhall line-up. It was fitted with a 1057cc engine and represented the company’s answer to the Ford ...

The opening of chequebooks crystallised Lamborghini’s future. A far cry from Ferruccio’s sober dreams of GT perfection, Sant’Agata would sell forward-looking drama. But a fully production-ready ...

Known unofficially as the ‘NART’ Spyder, after Chinetti’s North American Racing Team, the first 275GTB/4S was entered in the ...

And what better location to bring this trio together than Goodwood Motor Circuit, which would still have been a prime stop-off for these cars’ first owners 60 years ago? Perhaps the most impecunious ...

Any possible noise – a crucial consideration for a prestige car – was compensated for by the aerodynamic properties of the coachwork and by effectively insulating the rear-mounted powerplant. Two ...

But then neither was the car that bore it, the mighty SZ, which emerged at a time when Alfisti were poorly served. It’s worth recalling that the ’80s began with Nissan and Alfa Romeo signing an ...

Then came Stephen, who is now retired but became a well-known name in the Ferrari world – and he has owned a mouth-watering selection of them over the years. “He was an electronics engineer,” explains ...