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On the road and under the skin of this ultra-rare 1965 ‘short-nose’ six-carb PLUS market minutiae of the 275 versions OK, so this is the Home Counties, not Malibu or the Côte d’azur. But still I’m feeling lucky. The sun is out and, even in this...
This unlikely pairing of Lotus XV and Ferrari 275 GTB/4 earned their stripes racing in Kenya They are not, on the face of it, natural rivals. The Lotus XV was a focused, lightweight track weapon, introduced in 1958 to take on the likes of Porsche...
No stunt car survived the filming of Smokey and the Bandit so here’s the best replica
Jon Shirley, guiding light of Microsoft, collector and double Pebble Beach winner If you’ve lived in Seattle, Washington for most of your life as I have, you’ve witnessed a city transformed by the tech sector. And, for the past few decades,...
To Cape Town to buy a Sunbeam 23.8hp, get it working and go elephant-hunting Sometimes, the only way to ascertain if something is possible is to attempt to do it. Our speculative plan was to buy a non-running 1932 Sunbeam in Cape Town, get...
Braving the 660bhp restomod homage PLUS all the other crazy Jaguar XJ-SS The 1980s. Not a decade that celebrated subtlety. It was a time of excess, of shoulder pads, power ballads, hair like a lion’s mane and riotous wide-body modified...
Three generations prove Rolls-royce’s ‘best car in the world’ reputation In the modern world we are obsessed with luxury and status, and the motor car is the embodiment of these fixations. Today’s impressive technological creations...
The Vatican’s best ways of shifting the Pontiff EXCITED TO BE in Italy and looking forward to being a judge at the inaugural Anantara Concorso Roma (and no less to be staying at the impeccable Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Roma hotel), my...
