Martin OgilviePhoto: Ogilvie Collection Martin Ogilvie is a rare example of someone who knew all along what he wanted to...
• Coys rounded off a successful year with their final auction of 2012, “True Greats”, on December 4th, at Westminster,...
Artist Carter says he’s not alone in loving the BRM for the sound of its engine: a 16-cylinder, 1.5-liter Rolls Royce unit whose supercharger was closely related to the version fitted to the Merlin engine of the Spitfire and Mustang. That it also happened to be a beautiful machine was...
In celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the coming London Olympics, Rodeo Drive became decidedly British on June 17,...
The aristocracy of automobile marques in the days before the Great Depression was comprised almost exclusively of products from European...
• The Branson Auto Museum has pledged to rebuild and reopen at the same location after a tornado with 130-mph winds touched down on the last day of February. Although the roof was destroyed in the twister and flying debris damaged some cars, the majority of the collection survived unscathed....
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing...
On Friday 15 July 2011, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy with an historic event. One hundred Rolls-Royce motor cars, from 1911 until the present day, were displayed in the Courtyard at the Home of the car manufacturer in Goodwood, West Sussex. The cars were...
On Friday 15 July 2011, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy with an historic event....
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
In the 1920s and 1930s, British schoolboys devoured every word they could find about their favorite comic book heroes, like Biggles and Dick Barton, Special Agent. In Sir Henry Birkin Bt, however, they had a real live, walking, talking hero and they idolized him all the more. He was passably...
A private collection of 26 Rolls-Royce motor cars from German entrepreneur Hans-Günther Zach has been consigned to the RM Auction...
Bonhams held its 2009 Rolls-Royce and Bentley Cars sale at the Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts Club Annual Rally at Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire on Saturday, June 13th. Top seller on the day was lot 219 a 1912 Rolls-Royce, 40/50hp Silver Ghost, Roi-de-Belges Tourer...
February 2008 Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars By John Zimmerman Dan Gurney had already established himself as one of America’s...
Bet you’re thinking of Fangio’s transcendent victory at the ’Ring. The launch of the Fuelie Corvette. The beautiful Scarabs. Jaguar’s fifth win at Le Mans, the third in a row for the immortal D-type. That year saw the end of the Mille Miglia, but Sputnik went up then, too. For...
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