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Elegant Venue Chosen To Host Equally Elegant And Rare Cars

FLUSHED with the success of its first two award-winning Concours of Elegance events in recent years, Thorough Events has announced grand plans for its 2014 spectacular. Following on from Windsor Castle and St James’s Palace, 2014 will see event in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace. The third international Concours of Elegance will take place on 5-7 September 2014, with the promise of 60 of the rarest cars from around the world - many of them never seen before in this country.

Project Car Hell, Straight Eight, Two Doors Edition: '47 Buick or '53 Packard?

Welcome back to another session in the Hell Garage, where you choose between a pair of projects that match coolness with torment. We've been through air-cooled German cars, cheap Italian cars and incomprehensible French cars in recent weeks, and now we're going to winch a couple of big American two-doors with straight-eight power out of the Lake of Fire. Before the V8 reigned supreme in luxury-car land, cars with long hoods and smooth-running inline-eight engines showed that you had made it, and we've found a pair of such cars that should be gorgeous when restored…after about a decade of work.

XCar takes a ride around London street circuit

One year ago, in the run up to the Formula One British Grand Prix, Spanish bank Santander unveiled a video concept for a London street circuit that they suggested could host the race. The GP currently takes place at Silverstone Circuit. F1 head honcho Bernie Ecclestone said he loves the idea of holding it on the streets of the swinging city.