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Matters of moment, May 1980
A miscellany of mishaps "The answer is in the plural and they bounce" — Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, 1869-1944. Most of the…
A miscellany of mishaps "The answer is in the plural and they bounce" — Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, 1869-1944. Most of the…
The major British racing event of the month is the Silverstone Six Hour Race, a round of the World Championship for…
Aston Martin's Boxer eater Designed to be the ultimate road-going supercar, Aston Martin's dramatic twin-turbocharged, gull-wing, mid-engined two-seater sports car, announced…
Towards the end of last year we borrowed a BMW 323i Cabriolet from Frank Sytner, who was offering these Bauer…
Life seems to be beginning again at 50 for Stirling Moss. Not only has he restarted his professional racing career…
Apart from being a man with an ambition to win Le Mans, a mouthwatering collection of historic racing cars and…
The stalwarts of the TR Register are going all out to ensure that the Le Mans effort of the Janspeed/ADA…
The XK Register Area 9 of the Jaguar Drivers Club will hold its Annual Spring Rally, incorporating Concours and Driving Tests,…
The highest performance version of the Vauxhall Chevette was the twin overhead camshaft HS2300 model. This near-120 m.p.h. small car…
The Janspeed twin turbo TR7 racing project has re-emerged in West London. ADA Engineering, who operate from an innocuous surburban…
Talking of TRs, the TR Register informs as that it is ten years since its formation and membership now stands…
An appreciation The Fiesta, Ford's World small-car, was announced in the summer of 1976 and to date over 1½-million have…
Encouraging to see Hector Monro, Minister of Sport, attending the Pace Petroleum presentation of £30,000 to Nigel Mansell in London…
The newly-formed Elva Owners' Club already has forty members from Europe and the USA, with cars including Formula Juniors, Couriers,…
There is good news for those who enjoy watching historic documentaries on TV. The BBC is to show, later this year,…
The March issue of Action, the magazine of the AC OC, contained an article on the supercharged AC raced by Raymond…
Continued from the April issue We left the young Flying Officer X standing-by at Thetford aerodrome until 4 a.m. because…
There were two misprints in my article on John Walker's 1908 GP Panhard-Levassor last month. The person who bought the…
That well-known competitor in VSCC events, Tom Threlfall, put me in touch with Cyril Paul — as this gentleman said himself,…
A chain-driven Mercedes Sir, Perhaps the enclosed photograph and details would make an item in your Veteran section of a…
Who is the most influential designer to have worked in Grand Prix motor racing: Vittorio Jano, Colin Chapman, Adrian Newey? It’s a trick question. And my answer is: the man…
By Lee McKenzie The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve has never been shy about putting on a show. Over the years we’ve seen some real classic grands prix and while I know…
The 2016 season has only just started, but 2017 is already looking good for VR So silly season is over. And it’s not even June. Now that all the major…
Fausto Gresini, who has lost his life to Covid-19, raced and worked in MotoGP at a time when the sport was safer than it has ever been. And yet the…