Bodies of evidence

That’s marque historian Clare Hay’s verdict regarding the boat-tail body on 1927 Bentley 3 Litre chassis TN1564, and it’s no idle hyperbole. This ultimate development of the ‘skiff ’ body style (origi

If any vehicle is emblematic of the declining value of pre-war machinery, it is this 1927 Star Vela. The last-known six-cylinder Star to survive in the UK, it’s for sale at just under £30,000 – or rou

For all the rarity, fanfare and pub bragging rights, homologation specials often do not make hugely good road cars. Some are thinly veiled competition machines that are hideously uncomfortable and unr

An A-road transport cafe circa 1958, the atmosphere thick with intrigue and cheap-cigar fumes. The waitress, a twin for comedy starlet Liz Fraser, scowls at the attempts of four businessmen at the win

By the late 1950s, the National Hot Rod Association, founded in 1951, had already made the once edgy and transgressive activity of drag racing not only respectable in North America, but also hugely an

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