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Matters of moment, May 1963
Peugeot wins Safari Rally of 77 retirements That splendid French family car, the Peugeot 404, has achieved enhanced prestige by…

Peugeot wins Safari Rally of 77 retirements That splendid French family car, the Peugeot 404, has achieved enhanced prestige by…
THE Continental season got away to a bad start, with the Bruxelles Grand Prix having to be cancelled due to…
Mercedes-Benz 230SL Announced at the Geneva Show, the new Mercedes-Benz 230SL, which replaces the 190SL, is fitted with a 6-cylinder…
Pau, France, April 15th With Easter being rather early the traditional Pau Grand Prix, held on Easter Monday, suffered from…
V.S.C.C Silverstone Meeting (April 20th) Conclusive proof of enthusiasm for vintage-car racing was seen by the very big crowd which…
Described to the Editor in a recent interview. "Archie" Frazer-Nash, M.I.Mech.E., well known in motoring circles as the "N" of…
"There could hardly be a bigger difference of philosophy between Ford of Dagenham and its greatest rival in this country,…
Double victory for Bloor's twin-cam Lotus-Ford In spite of a bitter wind the attendance at the first Goodwood Meeting of…
Snetterton, March 30th The Snetterton Motor Racing Club opened the 1963 Formula One season with a 50-lap event on their…
Readers who are keen motorcyclists and campers may care to note that the first purely motorcycle jamboree (open also to…
B.P. have issued a Road Atlas of Great Britain prepared for them by George Philip and Son Ltd., which in…
"'Autocar' Road Tests, Spring 1963." 146 pp., 11 1/5 in. x 8 1/10 in., soft covers. (Iliffe Books Ltd., Dorset…
"Motor racing is the same the World over," you might retort. To which the answers appears to be, "At Indianapolis…
The last sports car in the vintage style All the other cars dealt with in this series of road tests…
To complete the series of tests on under-£700 sports cars we tried the Mk. II Austin Healey Sprite in 1,098-c.c.…
Sir, Recently a friend of mine discovered in a village in Lincolnshire a 1928 Mathis. We have had the engine…
Those brave people who disregarded the alleged danger to their lungs from smoking and those cowardly persons who do nothing…
Sir, I wish to trace the owners of all model AF Ford motor vehicles (circa 1927-31) including models A, B…
Sir, I notice that there has been some correspondence about Kipling's cars. He must have been something of a Rolls…
Nostalgia for Brooklands Track is as strong as ever and last month the motor-cycle riders had their annual reunion at…
The anticipation helped. It always does. Two qualifying sessions postponed until Sunday morning because of rain didn’t do any harm either. Revved up! The armies masquerading as Formula 1 teams…
The World Endurance Championship’s new rules should give independent teams a chance of victory – for the first time in decades The plight of the privateer at the highest level of…
Gordon Kirby's latest book uncovers the story of American racing's quiet winner Penske’s Maestro tells the biographical story of Penske’s longtime chief mechanic and engine builder Karl Kainhofer, who ran Penske…
Marshall Teague is famous for his ‘Fabulous Hudson Hornet’ that put NASCAR on the map and on a commercial footing in the early 1950s. But he was killed in a…