‘it was my 16th birthday present’

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

Monterey Car Week culminated with its traditional closer on 17 August, as the 2025 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance crowned a 1924 Hispano-Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo as its Best of Show. What is

I look at pictures from my school days and the memories of that period instantly come flooding back. Thoughts of secondary school are quite mixed, with just as many negative ones as positive. But my p

1. My first car was this black VW Beetle called – and signwritten – ‘The Black Adder’. When I photographed Rowan Atkinson’s McLaren F1 in the studio, he joined me for the day and signed this photo, ad

The classics you love, drive and restore

Alex Lobee shares how a black and yellow Citroën 2CV, spotted at a show when he was 14, led him to classic car ownership in his early twenties