Martin Emmison

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Martin Emmison is an English lawyer at the London firm of Goodman Derrick LLP. He specializes in transactions and disputes in the historic car field, handling domestic and international purchases and exchanges of expensive vehicles. Together with issues of title, provenance, import, taxation and registration; he also handles disputes concerning replicas, fakes, restoration and race preparation.

In the 24 months leading up to October 2006, Martin was involved in transactions with three 1950s Maserati 250F GPs, two Ferrari F1s, several Ferrari Daytona and F40 models, three Jaguar C-Types, two D-Types, four AC Cobras, an Aston Martin DBR2 and DB3S, a Porsche 917, 908 and 904/6, a Ford GT40, a Gulf Mirage, a McClaren F1 GT, a Pagani Zonda, and an Alfa Romeo 8C/2300 and 8C/2900, among others.

Martin has owned a 1952 Morgan Plus Four for some 30 years. He bought an XK140 roadster in San Francisco in 1978, drove it across the country, and shipped it back to England. In the 1980s he got hooked on V12 Ferraris, including a 275 GTB and a LWB Spyder California that he had restored from a basket case. Now deeply into AC Cobras, the current love of Martin's motoring life is a 1963 CSX car that he often enters in European long-distance events.