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Lodge life, charity and visits.

Aston Martin’s first road motorcycle

Aston Martin AMB 002 Roadster, side profile

The first two Aston Martin motorcycles were not for the road. AMB 001 arrived in 2019, the 001 Pro in 2022: track-only machines, built with Brough Superior, and sold like jewellery. Gaydon has now done the obvious next thing. The…

A proper Midget

Harvest Gold chrome-bumper MG Midget on a mountain road, hood down

January 1974, Harvest Gold, and this is about the last of the chrome-bumper MG Midgets with the 1275. Round rear arches, round lamps, a proper grille — the shape people mean when they say Midget. Later that year the rubber…

The Chevrolet they were ordered not to race

1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport — Writegeist / Wikimedia Commons

General Motors told its people to stop racing. Zora Arkus-Duntov heard the order, nodded in the right meetings, and then built five Corvettes that existed for almost no other reason. They were called Grand Sports. Only five left the works.…

Lucky Strike at Brackley

Mark Hendy with a BAR Honda Formula 1 car at the Brackley factory, mid-2000s.

A guest pass from David Richards, a BAR Honda in the factory that is now Mercedes, and the Japanese Grand Prix on the Brackley screens.