Maserati 450S Costin Zagato
This is an article I did for Hagerty recently. You’ll find the original post on the Hagerty website if you click here. The Maserati 450S was a classic sports and racing car that was driven by…
1954 MG Midget TF ‘1250’ Roadster Barn Find
The MG Midget TF 1250 Roadster was first introduced in 1953. It featured a set of improvements over its predecessor the TD in having a pressurized cooling system with the radiator now a separate assembly from…
1929 Rolls-Royce 20/25hp ‘Woodie’ Estate Car Barn Find
There is an old wise saying that says “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s there are few”. And so it was in the first few decades of the car industry that…
1971 Abarth 1300 Sport SE 018 ‘Prototipo’
Carlo Abarth chose the scorpion as the logo for his cars because a scorpion is a small creature with a sting in its tail and he liked to build small cars with a sting in their…
The Eagle Low Drag GT – A Re-birth of the Jaguar E-type
Described by Enzo Ferrari as “The most beautiful car in the world” the original Jaguar E-type caused a great stir when it first appeared at the Earl’s Court Motor Show in 1962 where I first caught…
Two hunters in a landscape – Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov
Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov was passionate about hunting and passionate about painting, something that those who like to characterize hunters as barbaric and un-cultured would simply be unable to comprehend. But its a natural mix; the hunter…
The Mauser 66
The Mauser 66 is one of the most interesting rifles ever designed and manufactured. They were a product of intelligent design and top quality German engineering melded together in a rifle that, arguably, should have been…
1960 Austin-Healey 3000 MK I Roadster
The “Big Healeys” were, I think, the nicest and most desirable of the post-war traditional British sports car: and it was, I believe, one of the tragedies of the British car industry as it fell into…
1916/17 Matchless-Vickers 8B2/M Russian Military Motorcycle Combination
Though there is an old romantic song that says “What the world needs now, is love, love, love …” there are some of us that believe that what the world needs now is the creation of…
1968 Mazda 110S Cosmo Sport Coupe
Mazda’s 110S Cosmo was an unusual car on a number of fronts. First, it was Japanese, and the Japanese were very much working on building a reputation as competent builders of decent cars in the 1960’s….