1,375円 The Mini, now an emblem of the Swinging Sixties, was in fact the product of an age of austerity and shortage, a simple design intended to make motoring more accessible and affordable for the average family. Ironically, it would become something very different: a modern, classless style icon that ...

469円 Joakim Jo Bonnier was a famous Grand Prix and sports car racer from Sweden. The heir to a publishing empire Jo also had his own art gallery and was an international playboy. Known for his goateed appearance Bonnier won a single Formula 1 race, the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. He met an unt...

1,485円 Sir William Lyons enjoyed a seemingly unstoppable rise to fame and fortune in the motor industry, and the Jaguar brand that he introduced became world-famous. Yet it did not happen overnight. In the 1920s he was in Blackpool, styling motorcycle sidecars, and in the 1930s in Coventry developing th...

460円 Ludovico Scarfiotti was a versatile Italian race driver, the nephew of a Fiat executive. He raced Formula 1, sports cars and was an especially talented hill climber in European competitions. Known to his friends as Lulu, his family were in the Italian cement business. Ludovico's most famous trium...

458円 Mike Parkes was an engineer before he became a driver for Ferrari in the 1960s. He was drafted by Enzo Ferrari to drive the Maranello, Italy's F1 cars in midseason of '66. Of his 7 grand prix starts Parkes qualified his Ferrari on the front row along with teammate Lorenzo Bandini for the July 3, ...

458円 Anthony Miles Standish Tony Brooks drove a works Ferrari from 1956 until he departed to drive Cooper cars near the end of a career that ended in 1961. The son of a dentist Tony also trained to become a dentist before he went racing. His father gifted him with the first car that he entered in comp...

458円 Willy Mairesse was a Belgian Formula 1 and Sports Car driver with a penchant for wrecking his Ferraris. So much so that his death by suicide in 1969 was attributed to a severe wreck he had at Le Mans in the Mulsanne Straight in 1968. Mairesse drove in races with friends before making the big time...

451円 Umberto Maglioli competed in the most noteworthy sports car races beginning in the 1950s and concluding in 1967. It was after he won the world's oldest sports car race, the Targa Florio, that he was recruited to race for Scuderia Ferrari. He also raced in the Pan American Road Race in Mexico and ...

0円 Crashing a motorcycle is one of the most fearsome things a person can experience. That’s the dark side. On the other hand, riding a motorcycle offers a rare promise: the chance to feel intensely, vibrantly alive. To clutch, for a time, something raw and visceral and true. Something that harkens t...

455円 Chris Bristow was a promising English racer who died very young while attempting to pass Willy Mairesse's Ferrari at Spa-Francorchamps during the Belgian Grand Prix of 1960. In doing so he took a line that caused him to veer off the circuit and was it impossible for him to recover from. Bristow's...

341円 Henry Taylor was a Formula One racer who switched to become a rally racer after having a serious wreck. Taylor later became a Ford executive and was captain of the British rally team for a number of years. My book looks at his career from when he began racing F1 cars for the Cooper marque, which ...

1,379円 E-type Jaguar; Triumph Spitfire; MGA; Austin-Healey – nobody built sports cars like British manufacturers in the 1950s and '60s. There was something very special about the combination of low-slung open two-seater bodywork and spartan interior, a slick sporting gearchange and a throaty exhaust not...