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Matters of Moment, April 1969
• It's All Happening The sport of competitive motoring is again in full swing. Those who compete and those who…
• It's All Happening The sport of competitive motoring is again in full swing. Those who compete and those who…
—A climatic catastrophe Brands Hatch, March 16th This year the annual season-opener run by the B.R.S.C.C. broke new ground in…
The Swedish Rally There was once a popular theory that high-powered cars, such as Porsches, were not at all suitable…
Wheras the Swedish Rally is characterised by snow, the San Remo Rally ought to have been held in the March…
[By means of which the Continental Correspondent, while he is motoring abroad, keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W.…
There will be no steam-powered cars at Indianapolis this year. The last of three such projects fall by the wayside…
Never having led a very regulated or orderly life I tend to let things happen as they will and adjust…
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters The V.S.C.C. Pomeroy Memorial Trophy Competition, Silverstone (March 1st)
John Howell tells us that the V16 Maserati is going together again. The single-seater Austin 7 which W. D. Castello…
The TB three-wheelers were built by Thompson Bros. (Bilston) Ltd., a company of boiler makers and steel fabricators formed in…
It came about like this. Graham Rankin, who lives just round the corner from me, last year acquired an impressive…
We have been asked to announce the following:— Auto 66 Vintage/Veteran Fixtures (April 13th and June 29th). These will be…
The French magazine, l'Anthologie Automobile, lists a race at Montlhéry on April 19/20th for historic cars in the Coupe de…
Any fresh information about Rolls-Royce history is getting very hard to come by, and although new things about Brooklands come…
Having, on another page, reviewed Sir Harry Ricardo's very enjoyable autobiography, recently published, it was interesting to come upon an…
The 70th anniversary of the first car being driven into the yard of the House of Commons is to be…
Welcome as marking the end of winter, the full return of spring (it may be snowing, of course) the first…
Exaggeration Sir, I could not agree more strongly with your sentiments on high-powered advertising of vintage and "specialist" cars: in…
No, not that sort of plug, or even that one. But we were astonished when, immediately after the last-but-one episode…
For the last seven years the South African Grand Prix has been held just before or just after New Year’s…
Jack Miller made some history at Le Mans yesterday when he became the first rider to win a MotoGP race after taking two long-lap penalties and doing a little motocrossing.…
The Porsche 911 is the ultimate sports car for many, but if it’s not quite ultimate enough for you, we know people who can help Reproduced from Watermark, Issue 22 The…
McLaren’s apparent competitiveness in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix has turned out to be a false dawn. Now that we’ve been to a couple more aerodynamically demanding tracks than Albert Park it’s…
…maniac by nature. What’s the beef with Austrian GP winner Andrea Iannone? I like Andrea Iannone. There, I said it. I like him because he is MotoGP’s pantomime villain, a…