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Vintage Postbag, May 1973
Carnivals Sir, One can appreciate the editor's distaste of fetes, carnivals, etc., in which veteran and vintage cars are featured…
Carnivals Sir, One can appreciate the editor's distaste of fetes, carnivals, etc., in which veteran and vintage cars are featured…
Sir, In his book "The Vintage Car", T. R. Nicholson says that the second "n" was dropped in 1921—presumably to…
Sir, I found the enclosed photograph the other day and thought you might be interested to have it. It was…
Sir, Mr. R. J. Evans' interesting letter about early car electrical systems, particularly those of CAV, underlines how the English…
Sir, I read with great interest the letter of Mr. Grigg, of Hornchurch, under the heading "Inconsistent History" in the…
Sir, Can you help me? I have recently restored an old engine which has been in my possession for about…
Sir, I can add very little information to add to "Sorting Out the Sunbeams". I confirm mine having chassis No.…
Sir, For the sake of those future historians to whom Motor Sport must remain an impeccable source of reference, may…
Sir, The enclosed photograph is that of an Enfield. My late father bought this car in April, 1913. He sold…
Sir, I will attempt to reply briefly to Mr. Doland's letter in your last issue. Nothing can prevent an individual…
Tuning topics There are several ways of buying 150 m.p.h. performance and shattering acceleration for over £7,000, but the only…
A poky estate from the north A compact yet roomy sporting estate car offering good handling and performance in the…
One category of racing that rarely merits much more than the passing mention in the pages of motoring magazines yet…
Rally review Choose any rally in the world and, if you wanted to, you could probably pick out a score…
Rome, March 25th. Last year's onslaught by Ferrari on the World Championship for Makes was impressive, but not entirely without…
Last February Motor Sport published a colour feature devoted to our staff's idea of what constitute ideal pairs of cars.…
The history of the ERA in pre-war "voiturette" races has been well chronicled and widely acknowledged as one of the…
Know Thy Beast by E. M. G. Stevens. 193 pp., 8-1/2 in. x 5-1/4 in.. (The Vincent-HRD Club, 102a Doddinghurst…
Usually these references to cars which figure in non-motoring books are based on what I come upon in old volumes…
Edited by Mike Micks. 120 pp. 8-1/2 in. x 5-3/4 in. (PSL Ltd., 9 Ely Place, London, EC1N 6SQ. £1.50.)…
Runner-up in British Touring Cars, despite a time-consuming day job, Sam Tordoff has stepped away from saloons to join the sports car throng The British Touring Car Championship is a…
Elfyn Evans has a mountain to climb in Monza, but the Welshman knows from past experience that it's all to play for in the WRC finale
Rosberg's departure was dramatic but not unique. Paul Fearnley looks back through F1's separated champions Nico Rosberg’s intention was honourable – though he who laughs last tends to laugh longest…
There was racing aplenty across North America last weekend. MotoGP was in action at Indianapolis, NASCAR Sprint Cup ran at Michigan, the American Le Mans Series was at Elkhart Lake,…