The exhaustive stash of Datsun 240Z parts packing the shelves at Fourways Engineering includes more than 20 engines and ...
“There was Prince Bira in a Maserati 250F, Tony Gaze in a Ferrari 625, Jack Brabham in a Cooper-Bristol; all sorts. “As soon as the flag dropped, everything changed. I was 13 years old and knew ...
The timely coming together of three youthful engineering wizards – Giampaulo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani and Giotto Bizzarrini – plus ace New Zealand-born test driver Bob Wallace, resulted in awesome V12 ...
What all of these neoclassic protagonists shared was a tacit acknowledgment that while the modern motor car had come of age as an efficient, safe and reliable means of travel, it was quickly losing ...
Mark Devaney is a great Italophile and lover of all things Fiat – and not just the Dino his Tunbridge Wells-based firm 24 Hundred specialises in.
After WW2, British sports cars were largely aimed at the US market – the few sold in the UK were too expensive for most motorists. A thriving industry emerged for sports cars in kit form using more ...
Superb handling was non-negotiable and achieved via the combination of a low centre of gravity, wide 205/60 tyres and ideal weight distribution. Thus, as the ’70s dawned, a more grown-up Lotus seemed ...
The R107-generation Mercedes-Benz SL had a 19-year production life, from 1972 to 1989, with nearly 300,000 built. The 350SL’s ...
As the first standalone Ford truck design not derived from an existing passenger car, it carried over the well-proven six- and eight-cylinder flathead engines, but was based on a new chassis with a ...