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MARTINSYDE ANNIVERSARIES
TO mark the 50th anniversary of Martinsyde motorcycles and the 60th of Martinsyde aeroplanes the Martinsyde Committee is holding an…
TO mark the 50th anniversary of Martinsyde motorcycles and the 60th of Martinsyde aeroplanes the Martinsyde Committee is holding an…
THE Vintage Motor Cycle Club, which now has more than 2,500 members, has two important events pending. The first round…
THE thriving section of the Vintage SCC which encourages pre-1931 lightweights was almost coerced into staging a one-day replica of…
Campbell's "Blue Birds" Sir, "People in glass houses," etc. ! In spite of your caustic comment, the 59.6 Vanderbilt Cup…
IF ANY readers have sufficiently long memories they may tell me that I have slipped up, because the Crossley was…
TO celebrate its 40th birthday and the 70th anniversary of the historic 1,000-Mile Trial the Veteran CC is staging a…
SOME years ago St. John Nixon, the well-known motoring historian, expressed the opinion that the earlier veteran cars are far…
A Dramatic Finish BRANDS HATCH, March 22nd AN unfortunate clashing of dates with the Sebring 12-hour race robbed the Race…
Cosworth-Ford Escort Part one of a long loan assessment THOSE who read last month's editorial will be aware that we…
A READER, Mr. J. C. Horne of Leeds, sends the following extract from "Adventurers' Paradise", by Alastair Scobie (Cassell) :…
"Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931", by H. A. Taylor. 206pp. 8 3/4 in. x 5 5/8 in. (Putnam & Company Ltd.,…
EASTER 1970.—Last year we had quite a lot of motoring to do over Easter, in the comfort and security of…
A TALE OF TWO PANHARDS I HAD not been on Safari since 1966, when I stalked a magnificent specimen of…
THROUGH the courtesy of AFN Ltd. of Isleworth I was able to borrow a mid-engined VW-Porsche 914 for an enthralling…
Looking Again at the 3.3-litre Vauxhall Ventora ONE Friday evening, earlier this year, my wife and I, instead of watching…
THE recently formed Elvington Hundred Club, whose objects are to encourage short-distance record-breaking, held a practice day at Greenham Common…
(March 21st/22nd) FERRARI'S DRAMATIC VICTORY AS SPRING follows winter so the Sebring 12-hour race follows the Daytona 24-hour race and…
SNETTERTON, March 27th MOTOR SPORT's Formula Three Championship, organised in association with Shell, could not have had a more exciting…
All-Round Improvement from a Blydenstein Viva 1600 VAUXHALL'S 1,600-c.c. s.o.h.c. engine, fitted to the Viva and Victor, seems unlikely to…
SINCE the Ford Capri was announced the manufacturers have made sure that nearly every individual whim is catered for, straight…
This Jaguar XK 120 C, raced by Phil Hill and owned by Hollywood stars, is expected to fetch £4.1-£5.2 million at auction on Wednesday This C-type (XKC 077) is…
This year's regular October fixtures were joined by a one-off autumn staging of the Goodwood Members' Meeting to add even more sparkle to the monthly schedule, that no amount of…
Some love its absurdity, others want more cold, hard driver race chat – Martin Brundle's grid walk is perfect as it is, says James Elson
The rider accounts for around a third of the combined mass of a MotoGP bike. Engineers have tons of bike data but they need to know where the rider is sat and what he’s doing