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Matters of moment, November 1966
SHOWTIME SOLILOQUY Last Motor Show-time, presumably in an unguarded moment, The Sunday Times Magazine published a profile of us in…
SHOWTIME SOLILOQUY Last Motor Show-time, presumably in an unguarded moment, The Sunday Times Magazine published a profile of us in…
Motor racing artist Michael Turner has again produced a most striking set of Christmas cards, larger than hitherto and nicely…
On October 15/16th the National Sprint Association organised a two-day meeting on Elvington Aerodrome, near York, and motorcycle and car…
The maximum permitted entry of 250 pre-1905 cars, 30 having been rejected, has been received for the Veteran Car Run…
At Michelin's Tyre Test Centre at Clermont-Ferrand we had the opportunity of testing the new XAS and XN radial tyres. They…
1963-1966 F.1. Supercharged 2 1/2-litre FeIday-Daimler hill-climb car—1963 F.2. 2-seater version of F.1—abandoned—1964. F.3. V8 B.R.M.-engined version of F.2—abandoned—1964. F.4.…
ALEC ISSIGONIS of B.M.C. displayed genius in putting 4-cylinder engines transversely across front-wheel-drive ears and combining sump and gearbox to…
MAKINEN CHASING EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP THREE CITIES RALLY Results: GENERAL CLASSIFICATION 1st: T. Makkinen/P. Easter (1275 Cooper S) 3,253.2 penalties 2nd: L. Cella/…
"... it makes Le Mans about as exciting as Mallory Park ..." THE notice on the wall read "ROADS CLOSED…
EARLS COURT, October 18th. TRADITIONALLY the day opened with the B.M.C. Press Luncheon it Grosvenor House, during which Sir George Harriman,…
BOTH the Jaguar and Daimler ranges are extended for 1967, while all existing models continue in production. To the Jaguar line-up…
THE Austn-Healey Sprite and M.G. Midget are now powered by the 1,275-c.c., 65-b.h.p. engine of the Cooper S. This gives a…
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters THE V.S.C.C. PRESTEIGNE WEEK-END (Oct 1st-2nd) As popular as ever was this expedition over…
To Spain in a Morris Minor Sir, On September 12th this year, fellow student Dave Morgan and myself arrived safely…
A QUIET show, with few novelties except for the more expensive or "way out" designs like the Pininfarina Ferrari 365P,…
"The Vintage Car-1919-1930," by T. R. Nicholson. 390 pp. 9 in. x 5 1/2 in. (B. T. Batsford Ltd., 4,…
There is a whole chapter devoted to cars in "Schwepped Off My Feet," by Tommy Whitehead (Cassell, 1966), which is…
B.M.C.'s Offering for Learners and Novices ENTHUSIASTS may tend to sneer at automatic transmission and to me it represents a…
TEST impressions of the 3.8-litre Jaguar in improved i.r.s. form were published in Motor Sport for July 1964; this is…
TRIUMPH GT6 WHEN the Triumph Spitfire Four was announced it seemed only a matter of time before the Vitesse Six…
There were several moments where the Dutch Grand Prix could have got away from Max Verstappen, but Mercedes was unable to capitalise on any of them
If ever there was a weekend that showed the remarkable diversity of historic motor sport, this weekend was it. Action ranged from Group C cars dicing around the sweeps of Dijon…
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…
So the numbers are in from six days of pre-season testing. When analysing them, using the methods outlined here, to attempt to establish a performance order, we can apply several…