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Racing is a ruddy expensive business. The lower formulas are full of folks funding racing with remortgages, loans or by simply living off Aldi baked beans and tap water. Any sniff of sponsorship gets quickly snapped up. Only Lord Hesketh could afford to turn...

In 2011 the Mail Online ran a story about how three of the original Italian Job minis, or what remained of them, had finally resurfaced from a lock up in the backstreets of Turin. According to the article, David Morton, a mini fanatic from Newcastle, had paid...

Here's the little-known tale of how a rally-prepped mk1 three-litre V6 Capri helped one plucky Englishman smash the record for the gruelling Three Peaks Challenge way back in 1971 - a record that still stands to this day. Any Brits with even a passing...

Sometimes motorsport heroes are linked with a furry companion. Currently we have Lewis and his bulldogs. Previously there was Donald Campbell and his teddy bear, Mansell’s bushy caterpillar, and Hunt, and his extrovert trouser snake. All of these are put...

In July 1955, an Austin A90 Westminster departed London on a mission to venture where no motorcar had gone before: a journey of seventeen thousand miles, from the North Cape of Europe to the Southern Cape of Africa. Behind the wheel was a mercurial former...

Here's the story of the most important burble (yes, that is the collective noun) of MGBs to ever leave the factory in Oxfordshire. This gorgeous MGB factory lightweight is one of three BMC Competition Department cars campaigned at North America’s greatest...

In the 1970s everyone was mad for plaid, from Johnny Rotten to Giorgetto Giugiaro. When the Sex Pistol’s frontman was hauled in front of the high court beak for drugs charges in February 1979, he looked resplendent in his full tartan suit and clashing...

This is now possible thanks to the efforts of Audi USA pedalling their new e-tron in the most execrable Audi advert to ever grace TV. Premiering on the most expensive ad time known to man, The Super Bowl, it’s somehow found its way onto my bloody YouTube...

This is the farcical story of British Leyland's press department and how they managed to cock up their primetime product placement on some of the most popular TV shows of the 1970s. Be warned though, if you're a nostalgic chap of a certain age there's a...