Racing memorabilia

There’s nothing like battered luggage for that ‘country house look’ in a home. That works for cars too. A weekend away in your Ford Anglia or Lagonda LG 45 just…

There's probably not a reader of this magazine who didn’t grow up with Scalextric, and just as with full-size cars there’s been a surge of interest in historic slot cars,…

Tyrrell P34 poster Brace yourself… but it’s been 45 years since Jody Scheckter shocked Formula 1 by dominating the Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp in the radical six-wheeled Tyrrell P34.…

Let’s have a crack at defining what constitutes ‘memorabilia’ and what is considered ‘automobilia’. There’s definitely distinctions to be made. Among football collectibles, items like team shirts, trophies or boots…

On or off the car, radiator adornments have been a very popular collectible since they appeared at the turn of the 20th century. They win on all counts – the…

One brand makes diecast cars with a typical price of £1.99. The other produces watches that sell for £8,000+.  It’s an unlikely collaboration but Hot Wheels and IWC have come…

Eyebrows lifted a couple of years ago when Jaguar Land Rover announced a sale of 140 vehicles, all of them as green as they could be, with not a petrol…

John Ketchell original artwork There are few things more special to own than an original painting. Prints are all well and good, but nothing ever beats the story, passion and…

Considering it’s a relatively young area of collectibles, the half-scale helmet market has exploded in recent years and some examples are quickly becoming very valuable. Minichamps began making the first…

Luxury European trackdays If you grew sick of sitting at home a long time ago, there’s good news on the horizon as things are finally opening up. The government rules…

How do you compare drivers of different eras? Is it even possible? There are so many different variables that separate the birth of racing itself, Formula 1, and the sport…

Motor racing as a board game? Can pushing a few counters around a printed track get anywhere near the excitement and noise of the sport? Perhaps not – but then…

Motoring art has been with us as long as the motor, even if in early days it was often as the butt of cartoon jokes – just look at Punch.…

Here’s an exciting topic: race-used collectibles. Can you get much cooler than having an actual F1 front wing mounted on your wall or one of your hero’s race-worn crash helmets…

Carroll Shelby-signed Aston Martin model Before he became America’s answer to Colin Chapman and had his life immortalised by Matt Damon on the silver screen, Carroll Shelby was himself a…

Like so many once innocent pastimes, collecting brochures about cars has slipped into a specialist groove. Once, every schoolboy was desperate to go to a car show and fill a…

Stefan Johansson Mark VIIIG 051 watch Yes, we know we have a page dedicated to wristwear elsewhere in this issue, but few timepieces have quite the direct link to motor…