A sporty alfa bought not as described

The son of a railway engineer, the recently departed Paul Grist combined an acting career with a love of vintage cars before he started a top restoration firm. Across 87 years his varied life included

IN MY JOB as a freelance photographer, I’d been on the 2012 press launch of the L405 Range Rover in Morocco, where ‘Mr Land Rover’, Roger Crathorne, had brought over a couple of original 1970 Velar pr

When I was 19, I was carrying out my nightly duty of taking my then girlfriend’s dog for a summer evening’s stroll along a certain Warwickshire high street. I happened on a Rosso Corsa Ferrari Testaro

I had been searching for a GT4 for quite a while, but with a limited budget I knew it would take time, and living in Cornwall meant a round trip of 300-500 miles just to view most cars. On more than o

IT’S time to say goodbye to our Alfa Romeo Junior Veloce – and during our six months with the car, we couldn’t help but draw some parallels with my husband Dave’s Vespa. Both vehicles ooze Italian cha

Beauty,’ said the 18th Century Scottish philosopher David Hume, ‘is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind… and each mind perceives a different beauty.’ That difference in perce