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• Last spotted at the Weston-super-Mare Speed Trials in 1973 and kept away from the public gaze since, BRM P139-01, above, was raced in six F1 GPs in 1969. Its…

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…

You’ve bought an old car and inevitably you need tools to keep it going. Maybe it has imperial fittings, so most new equipment available won’t fit and you find yourself…

Sponsored content  At some point during the 1972 British Grand Prix weekend, the Team Lotus mechanics modified the oil cooler at the rear of Emerson Fittipaldi’s Type 72. It can’t…

McLaren MP4/4 1:18 Model by Amalgam New for 1988’s Formula 1 season, the record-breaking McLaren MP4/4 wiped the floor with the competition, winning all but one race either at the…

The worlds of motor racing and horology have been linked for over a century with a host of brands constantly bringing out special editions with ties to the sport. It’s…

● The distinctive air feed snorkels of the Lotus 47GT, mark this as the ex-John Miles/Jackie Oliver 1967 lotus components works car which was driven to class victory in the…

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. …

Classic Porsche 911s are so ubiquitous that anyone who wants one is spoiled for choice. But occasionally a 911 appears that is hen’s-teeth rare in terms of spec, history and…

2017 Force India VJM10 Sold by Bonhams, £80,500 This positively pink Force India F1 car achieved eight points-scoring finishes out of nine races in 2017. Driven by Frenchman Esteban Ocon,…

Remember maps? If you weren’t born till the ‘90s, imagine printing out your satnav. The rest of us can recall wrestling with large sheets of paper that refused to return…

Gruppe See Porsche posters Remember the time when Le Mans prototypes were uncluttered, relatively mechanically simple and privateers could actually win with them against the works cars? We sure do,…

Who out there doesn’t have a car model or two (or 40) on a shelf? Today’s specialist makers can offer a miniature of any car, no matter how rare –…

1962 Brabham-Climax BT3 Sold by Bonhams, £325,000 A fabulous piece of history, this was the first Formula 1 car to carry Jack Brabham’s name and was also the first Brabham…

TVR’s ‘wedge’ models seem to have fallen into a black hole between the M series cars they replaced and the S series that followed. Designer Oliver Winterbottom’s attempt to make…

● Looking for a motor with stellar credentials? A 1950 Jaguar XK120 alloy roadster, above, on sale at LEGENDS in Bicester, £POA, was formerly owned by 9½ Weeks film producer…