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Matters of moment, January 1959
A Happy New Year Apart from wishing our readers the conventional Happy New Year it seems probable that 1959 will…
A Happy New Year Apart from wishing our readers the conventional Happy New Year it seems probable that 1959 will…
Popularity poll In the Daily Express "Sportsman of the Year" contest, which is generally regarded as the most authoritative, Stirling Moss finished…
To clear the air, note the following : Junior Formula for International or National Racing (requiring a National and unrestricted…
A Silent, Fully-Equipped Luxury Car of Considerable Performance—Costing Under £1,600. In the past the Super Snipe was one of the…
Whenever I see a large air-liner land, especially on a wet runway, I am intrigued by the way the pilot applies relatively…
New Castrol films During the winter when you cannot watch motor racing the next best thing to do is to…
A Section devoted to old-car matters Puzzle: This old photograph (q.v.) recently unearthed, shows a three-letter registration-plate, EWE3, at a time when such…
Sir, After the first World War a flood of cheap cyclecars appeared on the market in response to a widespread demand…
It is believed that a small Chenard-Walcker saloon lies derelict in a garage in Essex and that a Windsor and…
Just before Christmas B.M.C. announced a second Farina-styled car, following the introduction, at the last Earls Court Motor Show,…
Grandes Epreuves -- for World Championships [Date -- Race -- Distance (kms) -- Circuit -- Driver/Car (top three): First -- …
The winner of the 1958 Venezuelan G.P., which this year was run as a road race for Gran Turismo cars, was won…
To keep their Vanwall model company as it were, "Corgi" have introduced a miniature B. R. M., complete with that car's unusual exhaust…
Impressive improvement in acceleration from M.A.G.-blown engine Philip Mann, whose very lovely 3-litre Bentley is well known to vintage-car enthusiasts, has…
Cuth Harrison's Harford wins by one point from B. H. Dees' P.A.B. Special ("Click to Zoom" for pictures indicated.) Trials…
The Remarkable Borgward Isabella Coupé There is a growing demand for a car which, although luxuriously appointed and pleasing to…
November 29th, 1958. On the last Saturday in November four members of the Trojan O.C. assembled in Petersfield, at an hotel…
By Major L. L. Gordon I owe my early love of engines of all kinds to our local blacksmith whom I…
H.R.G. light alloy head gives 8 b.h.p. Increase in the middle-r.p.m. range The M.G.-A sports car uses the B-series…
The World's Racing Cars and Sports Cars by Douglas Armstrong. 208 pp. 5 in. by 7-5/8 in. (Macdonald & Co.…
All the times, places and launches you need to know ahead of the 2022 Formula 1 season
Nick Padmore’s fast-growing reputation in historic racing stepped up another gear at the 44th annual Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring over the weekend when he scooped a double win…
Seven years after ceasing production, Honda has not only publically committed to building a new NSX, it has this week unveiled a concept of what it might look like at…
There may have been conspicuously less money in evidence in Monte Carlo this year, but still the emphasis of the weekend was on little else, for there remained the vexed…