Paddock rumours of skulduggery from mild cheating to murder have always been popular gossip, but Crispian Besley has decided to pin down a bookful of those which have the evidence…

Could there be more of these than the real thing? They’re die-cast toy cars, and if you no longer have yours, for sure you had some. In this country yours…

One of my treasured books as a young lad was The Boys’ Book of Motors (it’s still on the shelf behind me). As well as the various four-wheeled excitements I…

Back in a time when the ageing 328 and the flashy Testarossa were the best that Ferrari had to offer, and before the company suddenly remembered that you could still…

Accessorise! Proud car owners have always attempted to personalise their machine with add-ons, useful or otherwise, and it goes much further back than today’s underbody light sets: in Edwardian years…

One of the few things that niggles me about my 1989 BMW 635 is that it came with a horrible ’90s radio – all swoopy chrome and flashing lights. I…

Everyone wants to drive the ’Ring – it’s implicit in the membership badge of the Petrolhead Club. We also all know that it’s almost impossible to learn all of it,…

You’ve bought an old car and inevitably you need tools to keep it going. Maybe it has imperial fittings, so most new equipment available won’t fit and you find yourself…

Must remember not to use the adjective ‘definitive’ in this review, because that’s just what I thought Simon Moore’s previous books would turn out to be, only he keeps demonstrating…

Remember maps? If you weren’t born till the ‘90s, imagine printing out your satnav. The rest of us can recall wrestling with large sheets of paper that refused to return…

I’m glad I can open this review with the Darl’mat versions of the Peugeots which raced successfully at Le Mans and elsewhere in the 1930s, otherwise a book about a…

Scholarly. That’s the best word for this discussion on the future of automotive history. It’s hard to summarise how much long-time collector and archivist Miles Collier packs into this wide-ranging…