1932 Hudson 'Martz Special' set to cause auction kerfuffle
Think 'pre-war competition cars’ and the name of Hudson might not be the first to spring to mind. But this famous American marque, launched in 1909 and named after Detroit…
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…
1993 Porsche 968 Club Sport Sold by Bonhams, £21,744 It might have been out of production for more than 25 years, but many people still regard Porsche’s stripped-out 968 Club…
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…
While rival companies such as Lotus, McLaren and Jaguar often get the plaudits for innovation in motor sport, there can be no overlooking the role Cooper Cars Co played in…
We could get lost in this debate for hours: is it more a Mercedes or McLaren? Well, it was developed by McLaren, built in Woking, but funded entirely by Mercedes…
There are few classic cars more mythical than the original Lamborghini Jota that was built to the design of factory test driver Bob Wallace in 1970. With its riveted, light alloy…
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He may only have stood 5ft 4in tall in his cowboy boots, but few singers were as big on the country and western scene as the honey-voiced Marty Robbins. Best…
1952 Harley Davidson 'Captain America' Sold by Cord & Kruse, £205,310 If the ‘Captain America’ chopper used in Easy Rider isn’t the most famous motorcycle in movie history, what is?…
Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan does a famous skit on whether you’re going ‘out’ of an evening, or whether you’re going ‘out-out’ – the former being a semi-genteel evening partaking in…
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…
As some readers may know, the past month has been an interesting one for us at The Market. That’s because the ladies and gentlemen at renowned auction house Bonhams (founded…
“If you drink, don’t drive – don’t even putt,” cracked Rat Packer Dean Martin. In 1979, The Cannonball Run star, whose vanity plate was once ‘DRUNKY’, was the first owner…
When Colin Chapman pulled the covers off his dainty Lotus 7 at the Earl’s Court Motor Show in 1957, we doubt that even in his wildest dreams he’d have imagined…