His collection includes almost every classic make, including Fender, Epiphone, Gretsch, Martin, Sigma and Harley Benton.
And that was that, or at least until he received a phonecall from Paul Brightman at Royce Service and Engineering (RS&E) in ...
When we last published a Ford Escort Mk1 Buyerʼs guide ( Classic & Sports Car, April 2015), a show-condition RS 2000 was ...
Paul’s is one of the oldest examples of the Pallas left, and won Best in Show at this year’s Citroën Car Club CX ...
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.
The Jaguar Sovereign XJ12 Series III was on sale not far from somewhere I was due to visit in a few days, so I decided to ...
Roesch had originally been brought in to create a new car, but his advanced A12 proposal was dropped when in 1919 Talbot was acquired by the French-based – but British-owned – Darracq. Roesch, ...
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 ...
This is a prototype, with all that entails. It is also a racing car, although strictly speaking it never ventured trackside in anger. And if that wasn’t enough for the history file, a few years down ...
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 automotive reunions are as poignant, and we are the first to capture the moment. That both the 1904 Darracq 10/12hp, aka ‘Genevieve’, and the 1905 Spyker 12/16hp Double Phaeton alongside it were ...
“I often went to see him at his garage, but my dental studies didn’t leave me much time, or money, and it wasn’t until the mid-1990s that I was able to start putting together the Bandini museum.” ...