Box of tricks

UPCOMING AUCTION H&H CLASSICS, BUXTON. 15 OCTOBER

There were gasps of amazement at RM Sotheby’s Maranello sale in 2012 when Chris Evans splashed out a record £5.5m on a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider originally owned by actor James Coburn. Fas

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

Iconic Auctioneers claimed seven new live-auction world records and two for the UK from 22-24 August. Hosted at the Silverstone Festival, the combined ‘Iconic’ and ‘Classic’ sales totalled £9.8m with

Clutch fully out in first gear is just a smidge too fast, so I’m being forced to balance it on the biting point and my left thigh is, frankly, burning like a bastard. All I have to do is drive slowly

The good thing about running two examples of the same model – 1964 Ford Galaxies in my case – is that you can contrast and compare by swapping parts around. Long before the recent round of work descri