Peter boita

I HAVE HAD a subscription to Octane for over 20 years, but I read with even more pleasure than usual your feature on driving a Lancia Lambda to Varallo in North Italy. It brought back many marvellous

At 16, I was just obsessed with engines and motorbikes. That’s all. I used to have an AR50 Kawasaki moped when I was 16. It’s knackered, but I’ve still got it and I’m going to do it up. My whole life

Into my penguin suit and off to the Royal Automobile Club on London’s Pall Mall to enjoy Motor Sport UK’s Night of Champions, where the championship winners of 2025 were to be celebrated. If you think

I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

He turned down Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend, present at a thousand pop-culture flashpoints… Ten Years After bassist Leo Lyons explains why he’s like “the rock’n’roll Forrest Gump”.

THE CLASSIC CAR world sometimes behaves as if Friedhelm Loh has come out of nowhere, an unheard-of collector who has burst onto the scene since Covid, waving around wads of cash and buying up all the