Archive Kork Ballington’s 250cc green giant 1979 Kawasaki KR250 Sold by Bonhams, £92,000 This was the machine on which South Africa’s Kork Ballington clocked up seven wins to help him secure the 1979 250cc world title.… January 2024 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive The V8 tiger: How Sunbeam earned its stripes Always fancied a Shelby Cobra but never fancied the cost of purchasing one? If so, this competition-spec Sunbeam Tiger could offer a more affordable (and, dare we say) more imaginative… January 2024 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Mechanical movement powers ode to Ferrari: Omolagato’s new Classic Timer watches We’ve featured the watches of UK-based Omologato several times since the business was set up eight years ago by Shami Kalra, a car- and motor sport-loving graduate of the London… January 2024 Issue By Simon de Burton
Subscriber Archive Eight orange Aston Martins cross the block 2010 Aston Martin V12 Vantage Sold by Bonhams, £99,500 Some believe the V12 Vantage was the best modern-day Aston – especially, like this one, in manual. The car was still… December 2023 Issue By Simon de Burton
Subscriber Archive The best Ford Escort Mexico available on the planet It’s an indisputable fact that the (now) classic cars we loved as kids are often the ones we want to own as adults, especially if we harbour fond memories of… December 2023 Issue By Simon de Burton
Subscriber Archive Precision Roundup Winter 2023 ROLEX To mark the 60th birthday of its celebrated Cosmograph Daytona driver’s chronograph, Rolex has given the latest versions (Oystersteel, above) a redesigned case, a metal edge around the Cerachrom… December 2023 Issue By Simon de Burton
Subscriber Archive Precision - Winter 2023 RICHARD MILLE A few years ago I was lucky enough to visit Richard Mille at his home in Brittany where, in a series of elegantly converted stables, he keeps one… December 2023 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive The playboy’s Ferrari that sold for £2.5m: auction results 1953 Ferrari 166 MM Spider Sold by Gooding & Company, £2.5m This spectacular Ferrari 166 was built for the celebrated Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa (who died in 1965 after crashing… November 2023 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Jaguar XE SV Project 8: the limited edition Nürburgring record-holder With less than two years to go before every new car with a Jaguar badge on its bonnet whispers past in electrically driven silence, perhaps now is a good time… November 2023 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive TAG Heuer’s Carrera watch that celebrates 60 years of the Porsche 911 It has been 12 months since we brought news of TAG Heuer’s 50th birthday gift to the Porsche 2.7 RS in the form of a brace of special Carrera chronographs –… November 2023 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Rarest Koenigsegg of them all sells for £3.3m 2007 Koenigsegg CCGT Sold by Bonhams, £3.3m The cost-of-living crisis clearly hadn’t affected the buyer of this unique Koenigsegg. It was developed between 2003-07 with the aim of taking the… October 2023 Issue By Simon de Burton
Archive Connaught Type B: Front-wheeled F1 perfection for sale Few motor racing fans don’t love stories about underdogs coming through to victory, and a favourite of many concerns the against-all-odds win achieved by Tony Brooks behind the wheel of… October 2023 Issue By Simon de Burton