Cars

"I like all cars, they just have to be special"

Gérard Dulait is the Peter Pan of the sports car business. On first impressions, it is easy to tell this isn’t just a job for him. He’s full of youthful ambition and enthusiasm, and has been for 30 years. Dulait’s first encounter with a car was at the tender age of 12, when he bought a Volkswagen Beetle and drove around the neighbourhood – without a licence, of course. Passion knows no rules!

The Continental name was first used for enhanced-specification Rolls-Royces long before WWII – but with post-War recovery bringing with it the advent of a high-speed road system across Europe, it was to become an appellation reserved for the Bentleys best equipped to exploit it. The first Bentley Continental (only named an R-Type retrospectively) would arrive in 1952, mechanically overhauled for a bias towards long-distance, high-speed cruising.

Full throttle from the word ‘go’

You can find some of Alex's previous spots elsewhere on Classic Driver.

The lap time that Stefan Bellof set in the Porsche 956 on 28 May 1983 is unbeaten to this day.

Porsche Classic with Magnus Walker and 40 years of the 911 Turbo

“Whether you’re active in the historic racing world or simply enthusiastic about the history of motor racing, you can’t avoid Lola,” says Classic Driver dealer William I’Anson, himself a historic racing expert and Lola enthusiast. “It’s Britain’s longest-standing manufacturer of racing cars, and has been at the forefront of one or more forms of motor racing since its arrival.” Indeed, Lola's founder Eric Broadley worked with Ford to develop the GT40, such was his talent.