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Matters of Moment, November 1968
• Showtime Soliloquy Less than a week ago the Earls Court Motor Show ended, marking the end of another year.…
• Showtime Soliloquy Less than a week ago the Earls Court Motor Show ended, marking the end of another year.…
Sir, Once you leave nuts and bolts and bore and stroke, you do have a time with spelling, don't you?…
The challenge has been put back into the Canadian-American Challenge Cup series. Although the works McLaren team of Bruce McLaren…
"The most magnificent motorcade in history" is how the Daily Express describes its London-Sydney Marathon which will begin from London's…
The Editor and the Continental Correspondent Tramp the Earls Court Aisles W.B. and D.S.J. joined forces on Press Preview Day…
Two weeks after the Canadian Grand Prix held in the ski country north of Montreal the Grand Prix “circus” moved…
This year Le Mans was run to the new Formula of 3-litres for Group 6 cars and 5-litres for Group…
It was not so long ago that 100 m.p.h. was considered a magic figure, attainable only by very special machinery;…
Koni, makers of those excellent shock-absorbers, have a 16 mm. colour film, which runs for 30 minutes with magnetic recess-type…
Recent releases include some very welcome new models in the high quality Dinky Toys series, these include a B.M.W. 2000…
I am delighted to learn that my old friend Dudley Noble, a Vice-President of the Guild of Motoring Writers, has…
It used to be the Guild at Goodwood. Now the Guild of Motoring Writers holds its annual Motor Show Test…
How it is Made : How it Goes The Gilbern GT should be well known to regular readers of Motor…
The annual weekend of record-breaking attempts at Elvington Airfield in Yorkshire saw another big batch of car and motorcycle records…
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters The V.S.C.C. Welsh Week-end (October 5th/6th) This traditional fixture ran true to form, with…
14/40 or 16/60? Sir, Although I would not dream of crossing pens with Peter Pringle, is RPK500 a 14/40 Lea-Francis?…
[By means of which the Continental Correspondent, while he is motoring abroad, keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W.…
"The Complete Encyclopaedia of Motorcars-1885-1968". Edited by G. N. Georgano. 640 pp. 11¼ in. x 8¾ in. (Michael Joseph Ltd.,…
The first Canadian Grand Prix held last year at Mosport was sandwiched between the German Grand Prix and the Italian…
A Spectator's View The Le Mans 24-hour race was postponed from June to the end of September and this gave…
Frank Williams brought Mansour Ojjeh into F1, but the team boss's rejection of the investor's overtures led the latter to a richly-rewarding McLaren association
The Lotus Emira will be the final petrol-powered machine before a shift to electric cars. Andrew Frankel asks whether it will appeal to the audience Lotus hopes it can
Why are more and more F1 fans watching MotoGP? And is this a good thing or a bad thing? You know the world is changing when the world’s most eminent…
The 488 GTB, Ferrari’s new mid-engined supercar, is not naturally aspirated. Instead, Ferrari have bolted two turbochargers to a 3.9-litre V8 – that’s 0.488 litres per cylinder – hence the…