Jacques anquetil

Fifty-one years ago, I walked into WH Smith in Hitchin and spotted Classic Car magazine. The cover featured the famous ‘Tulipwood’ Hispano-Suiza shot in a London mews, and the story by historian Jonat

European and UK manufacturers ranging from Iso to De Tomaso and from Jensen to Sunbeam saw an easy route to performance by fitting big American V8 engines into their relatively light sports car chassi

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

The classic bikes that you have found, restored or just taken for a ride

It’s the cyclist’s dream: jack in the corporate nine-to-five, load up the car, head for the high mountains and spend every day riding in the tyre tracks of Tour de France legends. For most, that’s how

You can’t overstate just how big the shirt sponsors were in 1970s French football. Back when kit sponsorship was still a relatively new concept, being tentatively phased in across the game, clubs in t