Snapshots

BRENT, NORTH LONDON

Since my first visit in 1982, four-up in a road-test Jaguar XJ-S HE, Rétromobile has regularly blown me away. The range of incredible Gallic machines always make this Paris show a much-awaited fixture

People are prone to certain behavioural ticks, the sort of misjudgements that depart from rationality. This would be one of them. On entering the environs of an active airbase, the sensible thing to d

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

A pair of comfortable Gonse chairs brought last year’s sales to a splendid end, with Old Master drawings set to star at auctions and fairs early in 2026

Sidecars have always been a hotbed of ingenuity, exuberance and grit. We unearthed these extreme chair-mounted exponents in our archive