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My prize takeaway from the 1980 Earls Court Motorcycle Show was a large-format poster of a Honda CB1100R being heeled-over on a race circuit by a diminutive Japanese test rider…

1981 Porsche 924 Carrera GTS Club Sport Sold by RM Sotheby’s, £320,000 Although it had passed through the hands of three owners, this remarkable example of the ultra-rare 924 Carrera…

The ex-Colin McRae 2001 Ford Focus WRC set a new world record when it sold for £423,300 at Silverstone Auctions’ March collectors’ sale at the RAF Museum in London, becoming…

It’s not every day the chance comes up to buy a genuine piece of Formula 1 history, but news that Nigel Mansell has decided to part with his car collection…

2013 Lamborghini Gallardo LP570 Sold by Collecting Cars, £79,500 (above) This could have been a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ – the chance to buy a purpose-built Lamborghini race car…

There are two ways in which a car can benefit from the ‘halo effect’ of Le Mans: by having raced there or by being involved in the cult film of…

The Mercedes 300 SL given to Juan Manuel Fangio as a retirement present is now being sold on behalf of his family

1972 Datsun 240Z Sold by The Market, £24,000 Datsun’s 240Z might have been the best-looking, most practical GT car to have come out of Japan – but most of the…

This car first made headlines in the automotive press back in 2017 following the completion of a remarkable ground-up rebuild by CMC, the Shropshire-based Jaguar specialist and top-level restorer that…

1977 Lynx D-Type (pictured above) Sold by H&H, £213,750 Known for the quality of its Jaguar XKSS, C and D-type ‘evocations’, Lynx Engineering was less than a decade old when…

Together with the Meyers Manx beach buggy, Colin Chapman’s Lotus Seven must rank among the most imitated of all kit car designs. The best-known Seven replicas (in Europe, at least)…

1967 Ford Mustang 'Eleanor Tribute' Sold by Mecum, £253,000 This near-perfect recreation of the ‘Eleanor’ Mustang that served as the automotive star in the 2000 remake of Gone in 60…

The Lotus Seven driven by Patrick McGoohan as ‘Number Six’ is undoubtedly the most famous car to have appeared in the cult ’60s TV series The Prisoner – but this…

The Phil Morris Road Racing Collection Sold by Bonhams, £2.1m This collection of competition motorcycles formed part of the contents of the Oswestry Road Racing Museum established by race team…

Mention the name Ford Torino to some of a certain age and they will immediately picture an image of the red-and-white ‘Striped Tomato’ Torino that featured in the 1970s TV…

1973 Ford Escort Twin-Cam replica Sold by Collectingcars.com, £24,250 During the two years that I scraped a living buying and selling classic cars in the 1980s (giving up just before…

Eyebrows lifted a couple of years ago when Jaguar Land Rover announced a sale of 140 vehicles, all of them as green as they could be, with not a petrol…