60 years ago, the Silver Shadow changed Rolls-Royce, and the concept of luxury cars forever. We reflect on its impact with a drive in this impeccable example

The situation looks chaotic in this mid-Eighties dash for the Channel – but there are plenty of vehicles to keep classic car-spotters occupied

Bold on the outside; bonkers on the inside ...

The cars at Hampton Court’s concours event combine the weird, the wonderful and the very expensive. And then there’s the people…

The concours world exists in a strange parallel universe. Participants often spend huge amounts of money on buying and restoring a classic, only to watch on while a bunch of strangers wearing white Pa

Steve Drewitt started restoring Rolls-Royces in the Seventies – just in time for a glut of depreciated, ailing Silver Shadows to land on his doorstep. Now, he remembers the Shadow’s darkest days – and its route out of the doldrums