Ace memories

LIKE, I SUSPECT, many British blokes of a certain age, I have happy memories of my father waxing lyrical about WO Bentley’s fantastic cars and the heroics of his team during the 1920s. Somewhere these

YOU COULD THROW a dart at a calendar blindfold and hit a significant date for the Ace Cafe, 1950s bastion of café racers, prominent landmark on London’s hardly picturesque North Circular, and, under t

Handy features that make life better? Pah! Air ...

Having reached the grand old age of 77, I have just achieved a lifetime’s ambition of buying my first Ferrari: a beautiful Portofino in Rosso Corsa with tan leather interior and all the bits. Despite

A REMARKABLE c1904 Opel Darracq is set to make its debut on the RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on 2 November. Discovered stashed in the basement of a Hanover technical university in 1

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