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Steve McQueen’s Le Mans movie 911 has been missing since it left La Sarthe in 1971. So how did it manage to be off radar for so long?
The Cisitalia Nuvolari Spider was perhaps the most successful, most heroic and most preventable failure in Italian motor racing history…
Where and when did the 'wedge' shape originate from?
The greatest sports car in Alfa’s long history is restored to its former glory for one of the world’s foremost collectors.
Porsche’s 356 was way ahead of its time in many ways. We drove what’s reckoned to be the world’s best of the early split-windscreen models to see what all the fuss was about
Could you drive to work in a Grand Prix Bugatti? In winter? Octane spent a week living with one of the superb replicas built by Argentinian company Pur Sang to find out
After 40 years languishing in a Californian back yard, this Zagato-bodied Fiat 8V is now enjoying a second European career
Jay talks about his fascination with three-wheelers
Talking about All American Racers...
In 1979 movie star, Paul Newman drove a privately entered Porsche 935 at Le Mans - and Octane's Delwyn Mallett was a member of the pit crew.
Adrian Beecroft pilots the Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato around Goodwood.
The fastest car of the 1990s in detail...
Commissioned by a wealthy young Italian noble, the Duca d’Aosta was the ultimate ‘street’ Bizzarrini – but it also marked the end of a turbulent ride for the company that took on Ferrari at its own game, and lost.
Healey’s 1968 Le Mans car was chopped around for the 1969 and 1970 races, so Healey specialist Brian Wheeler built his own replica and invited the original works drivers to help him test it.
Celebrating the seminal Jaguar XK120 and its successors as it passes its 60th birthday...
Celebrating the Ford Model T's centenary
Nothing beats loving what you do in life...
New cars might be getting cleaner and greener, but we shouldn't be made to feel guilty about our love of historic racing...
Finding time to enjoy the new Dodge Challenger...
Memories of Joe Landaker - a horsepower loving hero...
Over 100 Aston Martins have competed in the Le Mans 24 Hours since the 1920s, more often in hope than expectation.
Recalling some of the wildest parties....
The race season got off to a really rather average start at VSCC Silverstone, as both Mr and Mrs Mason managed to return to the paddock with a certain amount of battle damage...
For four successive years in the 1960s, Ford won Le Mans, and this brief film features these successes.