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Heveningham Concours 2025

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1967 Maserati Mistral Coupe, chassis 1146, after spending many decades languishing in a California garage is now with a UK based enthusiast, and it is a 4.0 Litre example to boot, great looking and 265 bhp.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

After what can only be described as a Friday afternoon nightmare journey via the M25 to my hotel near Ipswich, it was so nice to take to the nearly deserted roads of Suffolk for a very pleasant 40 minute run to once again attend the Heveningham Hall Concours on June 28-29. With the cars displayed on the grass terraces I have to say that, along with Hampton Court, it is one of the best locations for displaying automotive works of art. [Read more…] about Heveningham Concours 2025

Family and Four Famous Ferraris on the Mille Miglia

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Story, video and photos by Bob Cullinan


Four factory Ferraris raced in the 1955 Mille Miglia. And 70 years later, one American family brought two of those legendary cars, along with three generations of their family, to the 2025 edition of the race.

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Mille Miglia: Brescia to Ferrara

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1953 Ferrari 373 MM Spider Pinin Farina at Piazzetta del Castello, Ferrara

Story and photos by Bob Cullinan

We’ve shared the stories, and now we give you a look at more of the iconic cars and well-known locations along the route of Italy’s most beautiful event.

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Mille Miglia: Spectacular Scenes in Siena

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1929 Lancia Lambda Spider Tipo 221 in Siena

Story and photos by Bob Cullinan

The narrow streets lead to a broad piazza in this Italian hill town, giving us some of the best views of racing’s most beautiful event.

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The Story Behind the Alfa TZ Poster Part 3

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The Hans Sipma main photo for the TZ poster.

Vincent Van Gogh: “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.”
October 22, 1882, letter to his brother Theo.

Story by James Lanoway

During the time when Fritz Duernberger’s TZ 105 was away for ten months for its restoration by Ed Arnold in 1981, Hans Sipma had been envisaging doing something photographically with Fritz’s Vancouver garage floor, painted like the Italian flag.

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The Most Beautiful Rally in the World

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Bob Cullinan takes us to this year’s Mille Miglia (June 17-21) in this series of six vignettes with photos and video interviews with a variety of entrants, driving everything from the winning Alfa in this segment, to a huge Lincoln Capri and a lost BMW 328. [Ed.]

Story, video and photos by Bob Cullinan


The “most beautiful race in the world” has never seen anything like this. For a record fifth year in a row, Andrea Vesco and Fabio Salvinelli teamed up to drive their 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS Spider Zagato to victory in the five-day regularity race from Brescia to Roma and back.

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“I don’t know, I’m from Naples!”

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BWM driver and veteran entrants John and Julie Herlihy had a slight disagreement about where to turn while on the route. How could this happen, and where did they end up?? Ah, Italy! [Ed.]

Story, video and photos by Bob Cullinan


The official road book of the 2025 Mille Miglia is 476 pages long, with thousands and thousands of turn-by-turn directions, charting every street, road, highway, and path of the five-day event. You’d think that with all that detail, it would be nearly impossible to get lost, right? Think again.

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Hillsborough Concours 2025

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1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300.

Story by Brandes Elitch, photos by Hal Schuette unless otherwise noted

Hillsborough is a small town just 17 miles south of San Francisco. In 2023, the US Census Bureau estimated that the median household income there was more than $250,000. A previous Bloomberg analysis ranked Hillsborough as the fifth richest town in the US. The Hillsborough Concours is held at the Crystal Springs Golf Club, this year on June 22.

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The Story Behind the Alfa TZ Poster Part 2

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Fritz’s blue TZ and Hans’ white Giulietta Sprint, along with Mel Kaminski’s red Sprint, on the way to Portland. Photo by Hans Sipma.

Story by James Lanoway

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Fritz and Theresa Duernberger came to Vancouver, B.C., in 1966 after five years in Houston, Texas, where Fritz’s parents lived after emigrating from Salzburg, Austria in 1961. Fritz’s fascination with Alfas began at age 14 in Salzburg when he saw a two-tone light green Giulietta Sprint with a darker green roof outside the machine shop where he was an apprentice.

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London Concours June 3-5, 2025

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1978 Ferrari 308 GTB. This example was purchased from Cooper’s of Leicester via Tony Willis, to the sales director of BMW Concessionaires TKM.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

After several long trips to Italy to follow my passion for old cars, a trip from Brighton to the London Concours was a pleasant diversion. It is but a short train ride up to the capital; catch a Thameslink train up to London bridge station, then a pleasant stroll across London Bridge, pass the monument to the Great Fire of London, then pass the Bank of England, and a few minutes later you arrive at the green oasis that is home to the Honourable Artillery Company.

But as the train pulls into London Bridge Station it starts to rain.

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