It was more or less by chance that the late John Crosslé ended up being one of the world’s most successful specialist racing car manufacturers. Although a champion grass-track rider,…

1961 Cooper Zerex Oldsmobile ‘Transformer’ Sold by Bonhams, £911,000 As readers will know from our coverage of the historic car last month, this was originally campaigned by Roger Penske in…

Ford’s uncharacteristically late arrival to the Group B rallying party meant its built-for-the-job RS200 never really had a chance to shine. Homologated on January 30, 1986, the RS200 debuted in…

1955 Ferrari 410 Sport Spider Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £18.6m The list of names to have piloted this Scaglietti-bodied car reads like a roll call of great racers from the…

It’s widely accepted in today’s classic car world that there is no longer any stigma attached to recreations, replicas or continuations – so long as they are ‘done right’. There…

Imagine being a fan of 1970s GT racing and opening up a shipping container only to discover that it contained not one, but two Ford Capri RS2600s in the exact…

The original Land Rover Defender might have been axed in 2016, but enthusiasm for the so-called ‘best 4x4 by far’ appears to continue unabated – as evinced by the premium…

On the basis that high-end watch brand Richard Mille was only halfway into a 10-year deal as the official watch partner of McLaren, it was intriguing to discover in the…

Fiat’s diminutive, mid-engined X1/9s of the 1970s and ’80s were once a familiar sight on UK roads – until the combination of Italian tinwork and British road salt killed most…

Followers of the classic car auction scene might recall 2007’s £7m sale of 60 cars owned by Gene Ponder, a Texan enthusiast who made his fortune as a manufacturer of…

1952 MG TD Supercharged Sold by SWVA, £11,500 This eye-catching MG TD was consigned for sale by its owner of 52 years who originally acquired it to compete in events…

Italian racing cars from the 1950s don’t come much more ‘quintessential’ than this spectacular Maserati A6GCS/53, one of the 48 Spider variants of the model built between 1953 and 1955. …