The naked truth

It’s 60 years since Alfa Romeo unveiled its Spider Series I at the Geneva Motor Show. It went on to become one of the most enduring of all Italian sports cars

The son of a railway engineer, the recently departed Paul Grist combined an acting career with a love of vintage cars before he started a top restoration firm. Across 87 years his varied life included

IN MY JOB as a freelance photographer, I’d been on the 2012 press launch of the L405 Range Rover in Morocco, where ‘Mr Land Rover’, Roger Crathorne, had brought over a couple of original 1970 Velar pr

Beauty,’ said the 18th Century Scottish philosopher David Hume, ‘is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind… and each mind perceives a different beauty.’ That difference in perce

I had been searching for a GT4 for quite a while, but with a limited budget I knew it would take time, and living in Cornwall meant a round trip of 300-500 miles just to view most cars. On more than o

Something is not right. Racing cars are meant to be more difficult to drive than road cars; extra power and performance but less harnessed, so trickier to access and control than with the engineering