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While the bar of the venerable Villa d’Este grand hotel resembles a beehive during the Concorso d’Eleganza, the lady in this snapshot ...

It’s 1972, and one of the finest automotive engineers in the world, Giotto Bizzarrini, is taking a rare day off… “I am not ...

It’s the 30 September 1950, and Stan Coldham and George Wicken are engaged in a rain-soaked battle at Goodwood, employing every trick ...

It’s July 1967, and the summer sun is glistening over the bay of Saint-Tropez. But Herbert von Karajan and his wife have little time f...

It’s the 24th August 1963, and two Ferrari 250 GTOs and an Aston Martin DP214 are battling for Tourist Trophy supremacy at Goodwood… ...

It’s not only the engine of Sophia Loren’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SL ‘Gullwing’ that needs cooling down after a stage on the Rally del Cine...

In the Parc des Princes in Paris, ‘Miss Paris’ 1931 poses with a tuba alongside the famous Bugatti racing driver Louis Chiron... ...

Why invest a fortune in the restoration of an old Bugatti when a bottle of pastis (or two) will remove much of the legwork? The Canadi...

It’s no secret that Venice is the home of romance. During a visit to the city of 1,000 bridges in 1955, Sophia Loren is clearly so ove...

Exhausted, both physically and mentally, after winning the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona, Works Ferrari drivers Chris Amon and Lorenzo Band...

It’s 1958, and Maria Teresa de Filippis is about to become the first female driver to contend a World Championship Formula 1 Grand Pri...

This snapshot might look like a scene from the new Wes Anderson film, but the quirkily dressed group posing atop a vintage snowmobile ...

The Porsche 356 boasts one of the more memorable silhouettes of automotive history, but would you recognise one buried under a metre o...

He might have defined the jet set, but when Gunter Sachs took off for St. Moritz to spend his winter holidays, his preference was for ...

Is this really a Ferrari 250 LM sleeping beneath a layer of snow in the Italian city of Aosta? The staff of the restaurant in the ba...

It’s 29 December 1962, and the whole of London has awoken under a blanket of snow. So much so, that even Earls Court is proving the id...

It’s 1954, and in the alpine village of Sestriere in Italy, Gilberte Thirion takes a moment in her snow-battered Porsche 356 to regain...

It’s July 1956, and Stirling Moss and Peter Collins relax with their team atop their Aston Martin DB3S, on the grid at Le Mans ahead o...

Clearly the notoriously rear-biased handling on early Porsche 911s hasn’t deterred this young lady, as she prepares to continue her jo...

Phew, we’ve arrived. We’ve finally made it to Back to the Future Day – 21 October 2015 – the day on which Doc Brown and Marty McFly ar...