History
History
Name game: TVR the ups and downs of the famous brand
TVR’S glory years. TVR With an all-new TVR just around the corner, now’s the time to chart this sports car builder’s roller-coaster ride from...
BMW 3 Series is 40 years
Looking back at four decades of BMW’S biggest success. Hard to believe that the BMW 3 Series is 40 years old. It’s also hard...
Alfa Romeo 158/159
Derek Bell - 0
Rolling back the years. The supercharged Alfa Romeo 158/159 was the car that set the Scuderia Ferrari on its way to becoming Formula One’s...
Automotive and aviation forced induction
Derek Bell - 0
Forcing the Issue. An historical look back at automotive and aviation forced induction. Forced induction has always been a way to increase an engine’s...
The great tradition of front-engined V12 Ferraris from yesterday and today
The oxen go in front and pull the cart, they don’t push it. Ferrari’s top GT road models remained defiantly front-engined until the mid-1970s,...
J.S. Rasmussen – genius who founded DKW
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The Danish engineering genius who founded DKW J.S. Rasmussen - Classic Life visionaries. Today, we call it Audi. But the luxury German automaker was...
Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown
A life on the wing - interview: Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown. The RAF pilot who has flown 487 different planes. Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown survived being...
David Hives on TVR’s ups, downs, downs and ups
David Hives. Nobody worked for TVR or its offshoots for longer than this man. Nearly four decades of involvement means he tells a tale...
Auto Union racer Bernd Rosemeyer
Auto Union racer Bernd Rosemeyer and aviatrix wife Elly were Germany’s glamour couple in the 1930s, but he paid the ultimate price for his...
Vern Schuppan a Le Mans winner
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Vern Schuppan a Le Mans winner’s extraordinary life. From Booleroo to Le Mans. Vern Schuppan overcame the odds to carve out a successful racing...
Derek Bell went on to become one of the finest sports-car drivers
De Cad’s heroes - after a Formula One baptism of fire – driving for Ferrari at Monza – Derek Bell went on to become...
Porsche 909 Bergspyder
909 Bergspyder In the 1960s hillclimbing was big business with manufacturers going to extreme lengths to be the quickest up the hill. For Porsche...
