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Matters of moment, March 1983
It happens on March 13th What does? Why, the opening of the 1983 F1 racing season, with the Brazilian Grand Prix,…

It happens on March 13th What does? Why, the opening of the 1983 F1 racing season, with the Brazilian Grand Prix,…
Renault OC Open to owners of all the diverse Renault types, this is a Club of benefit to its members as…
As these words are being written the first Grand Prix of 1983 is still four weeks away and by the time…
The quality of a restaurant may often be judged by the number of its patrons, or the popularity of an airline by…
Frenchmen Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Lena won the Daytona 24 Hours, held on February 5th and 6th. However, they were assisted by…
It was during his spell as a McLaren works driver, first with the Church Farm Racing M10A in Formula 5000…
3 — Aston Martin: The Aston Martin 1½-litre had two distinguishing features among its contemporaries; the engine lubrication was by a…
"Automobile Year 1982 / '83" 243 pp. 12½" x 9½" (Edita SA, 10 rue du Valentin, 1000 Lausanne 9, Switzerland.…
The 1983 Monte Carlo Rally is reported on elsewhere in this issue. While it remains a prestigious event, and according…
Although a Ferrari engined Lancia is not a new phenomenon — there was the six-cylinder Dino powered Stratos rally car…
". . . the winner will emerge in the early morning sunshine on the Monaco harbour front." — Autocar, writing…
On January 30th, just before the snow came, some of the more active, and hardy, members of the VSCC assembled…
A reader seeks data on Galloway light cars, as his father had one in the 1920s, when he was about…
We have received the following from Mr. Lance Tees of Natal, S. Africa: I have been a South African reader…
For this year's Coventry Rally, over the weekend of June 25th / 26th, the Riley Register has decided on a…
"Admittedly we were running-in the car but our motorway average (in Britain) seldom dropped below 80 m.p.h." — From a…
Having quoted some contemporary acceleration figures last month for the rather-tame 1924 / '25 Austin 7 sports-model, it may be apposite…
We have received the following from Mr. A. F. Atterbury: I started working for Rolls-Royce at Derby as an errand…
David Rae, formerly Field Service Manager for Dunlop's, has joined Vintage Tyre Supples as their Sales Manager. The ex-John Smythe Type 23…
The Marshall Arter was one of these light cars that sprang up optimistically bethre the First World War, when the small-car movement…
Yes, it's a watch, but this limited-edition timepiece has an unarguable link to motoring – and it's affordable British car designer Matthew Humphries has worked on the Morgan 3-Wheeler, the…
This year's crop of new drivers is one of the strongest that F1 has seen and the competition is still on to stand out as 2019's rookie of the year Albon,…
View the Canadian Grand Prix qualifying result Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel claimed pole for the 2018 Canadian Grand Prix, pipping Valtteri Bottas by less than a hundredth of a second in…
Bruce McLaren shouldn’t have been there. Masten Gregory should. Cooper team leader Jack Brabham reckoned the latter the most fearless man he met. Yet even the gung-ho ‘Kansas City Flash’…