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Big bangers of the sixties: Ford GT40
A late developer Conceived in 1963 as Ford's weapon against Ferrari in the sportscar field, but soon switching roles to…
A late developer Conceived in 1963 as Ford's weapon against Ferrari in the sportscar field, but soon switching roles to…
Unjust comparisons The star may not have come but the show still went on. Most present felt a tinge of…
What, no snow? If there has been one profound change in the old car business in recent times, apart from…
Visability Dear Reader, My old chum "Titch" Allen, who founded the Vintage Motor Cycle Club back in 1946, always reckons…
The Trojan Owners Club has dug up that famous 1924 advertisement "Can You Afford To Walk?", which detailed the cost…
The roads of the 1920s At the end of 1928, Owen John was commenting in his diary on a Citroen…
Trans-Atlantic tie-up The project of the enthusiastic Lord Avebury, who thought that an Anglo-American car based on Graham components might…
Just before the First World War all manner of new makes were competing in the market for "motors-for-the-millions" which had…
A thing of the past Back in the days when you could eat your breakfast egg without expecting to die,…
We do not wish to start a sweepstake for new recruits between the various motoring organisations, but it is indicative…
A debt repaid? In 1952 I interviewed the great Talbot designer Georges Roesch, the articles which followed (Motor Sport, November…
New for Scalextric's slot-racing range is Gerhard Berger's Ferrari F 187, well-modeled and correctly liveried but in 1987 rather than…
Heavy metal In recent months we have been concentrating on the budget end of the model market, with mass-produced 1/24-scale…
Before long, Renault's Douai factory will be able to turn out a Renault 19 in just 16 hours. That fact…
Fiesta facelift A new model from a major manufacturer is big news, even when the model in question has been…
Alvis — The Story Of The Red Triangle by Kenneth Day, 375pp. 10' x 8". (Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford, Yeovil,…
Armstrong Siddeley — The Post-War Cars by Robert Pen Bradley. 208pp. 10" x 8". (MRP, The PiIton Estate, 46 Pidake,…
by Martin Beck-Burridge and John Lyon. 231pp. 93/4" x 7". (Porsche Cars Great Britain, Reading, Berkshire. £18.95). For 12 years,…
by Murray Walker. 144pp. 81/4 x 53/4. (First Formula Publishing, Lyon Road, Wimbledon, SW19 2SE. £6.50). Cheapest of the Grand…
by David Vivian. 128pp. 101/2" x 9". (Osprey, 59 Grosvenor Street, London W1X 9DA. £9.95) Don't imagine that this is…
BMW Falken Motorsports driver Peter Dumbreck's diary from the Nürburgring 24 Hours gives us an insight into the endurance event from the perspective of a driver Wednesday I managed to…
This week in motor sport, from the database August 24 // August 25 // August 26 // August 27 // August 28 // August 29 // August 30 August 24 1986…
There are plenty of rumours and conspiracy theories doing the rounds at the moment, so let’s take a deep dive in the Michelins
The schoolboy stood shyly by the flung-open workshop doors. It was the first day of his summer holiday of 1963 and he had cycled the short distance from his Byfleet…