The car’s the star

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

It’s a petrolhead’s dream: wrestling a rusty old padlock and prising open a creaky door to unearth a classic car ripe for a loving restoration. It’s called a barn find, and there are YouTube channels

Winning was always the true religion at Maranello. As much as Enzo Ferrari promoted the ideals of power, exclusivity and heroism as the basis of his race and road cars, this mystique was expertly entw

The year 1953 was when life in Britain began finally to bleed from monochrome to colour. Not everywhere, and not for everybody, but, slowly, there was a palpable sense that brighter days were just bey

In 1976 Lancia brought out the Gamma, a luxury saloon that took the place of the Flavia 2000. It had a flat-four engine of 1998cc or 2484cc, but it was withdrawn in 1984, after 15,296 had been built,