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The concours world exists in a strange parallel universe. Participants often spend huge amounts of money on buying and restoring a classic, only to watch on while a bunch of strangers wearing white Pa

They said Antonio – later ‘Tony’ – Lago was ‘spietato ma con grande fascino’ (which is to say ‘ruthless, but charming’). And they said of his most famous car that it was ‘une veritable oeuvre d’art’.

Has there ever been a model so enigmatic yet charismatic, so awash with magical beauty and talent as the Alfa Romeo Type 33? On the track, Carlo Chiti’s 1966 design took a couple of years to find its

The cars at Hampton Court’s concours event combine the weird, the wonderful and the very expensive. And then there’s the people…

The end of Bristol Cars was both tarnished and unseemly. Given that this was a marque formed over a perfectionist manufacturing ideal, the irony looks especially cruel. Let’s recap Bristol’s final cha

I have always been a sports-car enthusiast. When I was young, I had subscriptions to Road & Track and Hot Rod, I knew who Carroll Shelby was and I followed the exploits of Phil Hill, John Surtees and