Cars

Number 10: 1964 Ford GT40 for $7m

What's in a name?

In early 2014, Kingsley Riding-Felce stepped down from his position as Managing Director of Aston Martin Works, having become something of a company hero after serving for no fewer than 38 years. His successor Paul Spires welcomes us to the recently overhauled Works site, comprehensively restored in 2012 and partially occupying the grounds of the old factory on Tickford Street in Newport Pagnell. “Kingsley left the company in really good order,” Spires tells us.

The two gentlemen in the image have braved a snowstorm in order to visit a home-made pie restaurant. Judging by the build-up on their elegant Astons, it appears they might have stayed for a digestif or two to warm the bones. Now they’re faced with a dilemma: how will they get home to the comfort of an open fire?

If they really had to go somewhere in the snow, drivers just got into their cars and drove

I was in Iceland a few days ago for the launch of Land Rover's new 'Discovery Sport'. As my driving companion and I pushed on along the ice-packed gravel roads and tackled snow-covered inclines, we pondered the question of what people used to do in the days before four-wheel drive was readily available on mainstream vehicles - and quickly realised the answer: if they really had to go somewhere in the snow, drivers just got into their cars and drove.

All bite, no bark

Well, none of these applied to us, Team Classic Driver, when we applied for the 20^th anniversary running of LeJog – short for the Land’s End to John O’Groats reliability trial.

Home alone; but not for long