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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

Patrese had jumped out of his V8 Juddpowered Formula 1 Williams after first qualifying on the Friday afternoon of the 1988 Italian Grand Prix and straight into a mount that wasn’t perhaps quite as dif

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

Jenson Button joined the ranks of Goodwood Revival winners when he and Alex Buncombe took the 2009 Formula One champion’s ex-Juan Manuel Fangio Jaguar C-type to a commanding victory in the Freddie Mar

Beneath the roundels and sponsor stickers of Robert Pulleyn’s 308GTB racer, there actually exists a road-registered Ferrari. It looks completely at home parked here at the top of Harewood’s atmospheri

There is something rather special about driving a car built in the 1800s. This 1899 Wolseley 3.5hp Voiturette’s single-cylinder motor first burst into life when Queen Victoria was on the throne and pr