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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

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

I trooped off to the year’s first Bicester Scramble with the rest of the sell-out crowd, to enjoy (among other highlights) a huge display of TWR road and racing cars, gathered to commemorate 50 years

HAGERTY HAS announced its annual list of what it considers the current ‘best buys’ in the classic car market, catering for budgets of just a few thousand pounds to £100,000. Hagerty’s valuation specia

It’s a petrolhead’s dream: wrestling a rusty old padlock and prising open a creaky door to unearth a classic car ripe for a loving restoration. It’s called a barn find, and there are YouTube channels

Some of you reading this may have a dream car. And given that it’s the car of your dreams, it likely cost a princely sum. In January 2025, bidding on the Porsche 917 that Steve McQueen drove in his 19