LIKE, I SUSPECT, many British blokes of a certain age, I have happy memories of my father waxing lyrical about WO Bentley’s fantastic cars and the heroics of his team during the 1920s. Somewhere these

Apart from dalliances with V8s (and begging an exception for a currently owned Ford twin-turbo V6), I’ve always had a preference for small road cars with simple engines. So why I should be seized by a

What was the Swallow Doretti? The key players were sports car fan Dorothy Deen – so surnamed after a shortlived marriage to L Howard Deen – and her father, Arthur Andersen. Arthur was an engineer who

A REMARKABLE c1904 Opel Darracq is set to make its debut on the RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on 2 November. Discovered stashed in the basement of a Hanover technical university in 1

Exactly two years ago we previewed the Bonhams sale of a Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.3-16 that Niki Lauda drove to second place in the 1984 Nürburgring Race of Champions organised by the marque to celebrate

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