Gear

As he’s a designer with six decades of experience, mostly at the pinnacle of road and race cars, you might expect Gordon Murray’s car collection to include big-ticket Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Marti

Rather unexpectedly, Bentley recently joined forces with James Otter, the Cornwall-based shaper of wooden surfboards, to produce a board featuring koa veneer selected from the woodstore at the Bentley

Much like a 19-year-old Bob Dylan arriving in New York brimming with talent and potential, Gordon Murray landed in England as a 23-year-old with little more than uncanny ability and burning ambition.

1. For the McLaren F1 owner’s manual, Gordon Murray told me to deliver something that was significantly better than our competitors’. Nobody reads owners’ manuals and I wanted to change that to reflec

Price: from £165 Contact: yourlifeincars.com GET two or more car enthusiasts in a room and it won’t be long before they start listing all the vehicles they have owned – or currently have in their coll

If someone offered you a second-hand car that had been through the hands of too many people to list, been shipped back and forth across three continents and started life as a coupé before being conver