BEFORE winning the 1929 Women’s Grand Prix, Helle Nice did what most of us do before a big race. As her biographer Miranda Seymour tells it, “she reached the track with half an hour to go, wishing she hadn’t spent the night before dancing at Les Acasias. A mixtu...

APART from hundreds of emails of abuse I get every week, lately there have been a few complaining that I talk only about expensive cars.

AS you know, Norm Beechey and I never drop names, but we were having a quiet chat at The Second Annual Weekend Australian and Sporting Car Club of South Australia Memorial Lecture and Chicken Roll and Salad Dinner last week.

THERE are three keys to happiness in southern California: great tan, great body, great car. Since I’m looking at spending a few months of the year here and the first two departments are no problem, I need advice on what cars are cool in this, the world capital of appearance...