Built by Birmingham Small Arms owned Daimler Cars (by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen), with a V8 engine designed by the man who created the Ariel Square 4 motorcycle engine, and with input from Jaguar,…
Daimler SP250 Dart Project
THE GRAND PRIX CAR 1945-1965
There’s a nice series of videos on The Grand Prix Car 1945-1965 available on YouTube. Each episode is about 25 minutes long and there is much archival footage and interviews with such people as Stirling Moss,…
Richard “Dick” Seaman and the Mercedes Silver Arrows
Richard “Dick” Seaman was the only British racing driver to be admitted to the Mercedes-Benz “Silver Arrows” Grand Prix racing team in the period before the Second World War. Born on 4th February 1913 as the…
Lamborghini Urraco P250 Barn Find
A genuine barn find can be hard to find. However this Lamborghini Urraco P250 is a genuine barn find that is undergoing some modest restorative work to get it into running order ready for auction. The…
Porsche 911 Speedster
There’s an old Pontiac LeMans advertisement that reads “LeMans is for driving. LeMans is for looking at. LeMans is for being looked at in. Aren’t you glad we think of everything?” I think this tends to…
Sir “Black Jack” Brabham
“I was only ever interested in beating Ferrari, not joining them.” – Jack Brabham It was after he had received his OBE from Her Majesty the Queen in 1978 that the newly knighted Sir Jack Brabham…
