British car makers also saw the layout’s appeal, and while theirs tended to be marginal players at the upper end of the ...

R&J Simpson is best known for its work on aluminium monocoques for Formula racers, covering roughly the Cosworth DFV era of Formula One, plus countless Formula Two and Formula Three cars. “Often we ...

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Or maybe Diana Dors; after all, she famously owned a Saoutchik Delahaye. In the end, the big Daimler’s closest brush with big-screen glamour was a cameo role in the 1953 Norman Wisdom comedy Trouble ...

At the time he owned a Bristol 404, an elegant coupé whose rear wings had small fins, vestiges of the 450’s, and it was through enthusiastic research that Boré discovered the 450 Le Mans. Of the four ...

But I’m right about a few things. The engineers and designers were hugely talented and enthusiastic and, above all, able to work very quickly with very limited resources. The result of the quickfire ...