The Showroom

Editors Choice A new star of Formula 1 art James Stevens art He may be one of the newer names on the motor sport art scene, but James Stevens’ star…

Autumn is a funny time of year for motor sport. While there’s still a multitude of events going on, there’s also this looming sense that the race season is coming…

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.…

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…

Motor racing perhaps has more ups and downs than any other sport, and this last month has been as varied as it has been emotional. After two great events out…

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…

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…

The Oulton Park Gold Cup is a special event, and a great chance for the VSCC to share the stage at a truly prestigious meeting, so there was a huge…

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…

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…

Until recently, the pretty Classic Performance Engineering stable housed a third example of Britain’s pioneers that circumstances conspired against: the Kieft-Climax. Like the Aston Martin it wasn’t external but internal…

With some fresh modification to Mord, including strengthening the cross member and some adjustment to the front springs, Dad and I were excited to see the impact on our now-notorious…

James Stevens Formula 1 prints The standard team merchandising posters not doing the trick? Why not upgrade your wall-hanger game with one of these superbly striking fine art prints from…

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…

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…

Only time will tell, but we reckon this car could be the ‘sleeper’ auction lot of the month, if not the season. It’s the actual Mercedes 190E driven to second…

Cadwell Park, dubbed by many as the ‘mini Nürburgring’, is one of my favourite circuits. Sadly, I missed out last year with a broken Mord, so I was even more…