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

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It is nothing new to turn a large private collection of classics into a museum, though it is less common in the UK and Europe than the USA (where the tax benefits can be considerable). Even so, to do

As barn finds go, they don’t get much better than this 1972 911 Targa that emerged from a dusty garage where it had lain since 1982. Acquired by the unidentified family when it was just a year old, th

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