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The London Concours, presented by Montres Breguet, has announced its The Pursuit of Speed display; gathering the cars designed not just to be fast on the road, but to be the fastest. From the all-conquering Jaguar XK120 to the beautifully iconic Mercedes 300SL ‘Gullwing’ and on to the latest Bugatti Veyron and Chiron, ‘The Pursuit of Speed’ is a visual journey through humanity’s quest for ever higher speeds, and the…
As summer takes hold, it is once again time to take the covers off our classic sports cars, give them a tune up and head out on a sunny ride and blow away those cobwebs. If you are the proud owner of a classic car, you probably purchased your vehicle for high days just like this, and what better way to fully enjoy your dream car than to plan a…
The Haematology Cancer Care charity will be the sole beneficiary from the sale of a 50 year-old Volvo endurance rally car, offered at no reserve by classic car auction specialists Historics on Saturday, 18th July. Londoner and classic car enthusiast Charles Cook, 72, was taken ill at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early March. A long-term patient of University College London Hospital’s internationally-respected Haematology team, he walked into the…
It is with great regret that Historic Promotions and MotorSport Vision announce that the Donington Historic Festival will not now be taking place in 2020. The next Donington Historic Festival will be held in 2021 – the Festival’s 10th anniversary. When DHF 2020 was originally postponed from its May 1,2,3 dates due to COVID 19 restrictions, we hoped to be able to reschedule for later this year and have been working very…
Jaguar Classic, the official source of authentic cars, expert services, and genuine parts for classic Jaguar enthusiasts worldwide, has reintroduced it’s legendary 3.8-litre XK engine block. The new engine will be the very same as the famous XK unit that was fitted to many coveted Jaguar saloons and sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s, including the legendary E-type. Unavailable new for more than 50 years, these are the only…
Beaulieu has been hosting motoring events in the parkland surrounding the National Motor Museum since 1952 when it held the first veteran car rally. Each year it now welcomes over 100,000 visitors to its events that take place from April through to November. Unfortunately the Covid-19 pandemic halted the planned 2020 programme, when the attraction had to close its doors to visitors in late March. The Spring Autojumble was cancelled…
FIVA is inviting youngsters to submit photographs, paintings and drawings on the theme of ‘Historic Vehicles and Industrial Heritage’. The competition is being held to celebrate the United Nations International Youth Day, 12 August 2020, promoting the benefits that young people bring into the world. “Our competition invites the young and young-at-heart to submit bold and innovative artistic representations of historic vehicles in the context of industrial heritage, expressing the…
RM Sotheby’s are offering a rare and striking 2010 Alfa Romeo TZ3 Stradale Zagato as part of the Elkhart Collection sale, which is scheduled to take place on 23-24 October 2020. Created to mark Alfa Romeo’s 100th anniversary in 2010, the TZ3 Stradale Zagato continued an illustrious line of track focused sports cars, the infamous Tubolare Zagato models, most notably the TZ1 of 1963 and the TZ2 of 1965. When…
The 8C Competizione was both a return to the roots of Alfa Romeo and a testbed for the future. It was created in the middle of a process of reorganisation in the automotive sector as it prepared to face the new millennium. It became the banner around which Alfa Romeo would redefine its identity and values, a stylistic and technical point of departure for future product planning. In early 2006,…
The Brabham Automotive board set its designers and engineers an audacious goal: unrestricted by track or road regulations, create the world most track-focused hypercar. There was a directive to balance form and function. The next chapter of the iconic Brabham marque had to make a statement and stay true to its DNA – a performance-oriented car that optimized the perfect blend of power, aerodynamics and chassis dynamics. There was just…