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Showtime Soliloquy This year you can have a Soliloquy but you cannot have a Motor Show, apart from the Daily…
Showtime Soliloquy This year you can have a Soliloquy but you cannot have a Motor Show, apart from the Daily…
An Anglo-Italian victory Monza, September 11th Despite annual rumours that the race must be moved eventually owing to various local…
Lying horizontal, sick of the palsy, was not the best position from which to reflect on the happenings in the…
Having publicised the 750 MC's 6-hour Relay Race as an excellent fixture to compete in and watch, we are disturbed…
It is with regret that we have to report that Mr. Reid A. Railton has died in Canada at the…
It has often been said, by ourselves as much as by anyone, that experienced, professional rally crews who have had…
Michael Parkes made an unusually full contribution to this World. He was a talented engineer, aviator and competition car driver.…
If the Department of Transport kept me waiting a long time in reply to my query about the tax concession…
If head-turning appeal is the seal of approval for the recently released Ford X-series parts, then Ford are sitting on…
By Eoin Young. 176 pp. 9 3/4 in. x 6 3/4 in. (Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., Astronaut House, Feltham, Middlesex.…
By L. T. C. Rolt. 188 pp. 8 3/4 in. 5 1/2 in. (Allen Lane, Penguin Books Ltd., 17, Grosvenor…
By Cyril Posthumus. 160 pp. 11 3/4 in. 8 1/2in. (The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., Astronaut House, Feltham, Middlesex. £4.95.)…
Edited and compiled by Peter Garnier. 80 pp. 11 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in. (IPC Transport Press Ltd., Dorset…
By Chris Harvey. 236 pp. 10 1/4 in. 8 1/4 in. (The Oxford Illustrated Press Ltd., Shelley Close, Headington, Oxford.…
Auto Replicas of Parkstone list a large range of 1/43rd-scale metal kits and have introduced a 1/24th-scale range, the first…
"How about some of you 750 drivers with your own businesses sponsoring three girls a piece? Ten of you at…
I have just enjoyed a week in a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. It was indeed a very pleasant experience. Nevertheless,…
A section devoted to old-car matters A Straker Squire Relic Earlier this year, when they were clearing out an attic…
Sir, Mr. Gaskin's article in the June issue (p. 676), recalling the short-lived attempt to establish a motor industry in…
Sir, All the pre-war Datsuns built between 1932 and 1945 were shod with 4.00-16 tyres, which is a very peculiar…
Back in the day, long after his retirement as a driver, Vic Elford worked for years for Skip Barber’s racing drivers’ school at Sears Point in California, and very occasionally…
Porsche is too coldly rational for Formula 1; I very much doubt that it has ever loved it. That’s why a marque whose history is so entwined with motorsport has…
Following Formula 1’s Bahrain season-opener Motor Sport’s readers were among race fans around the world who made it clear how disappointed they are with Grand Prix racing’s 2010 edition. We’ve…
Bob Bondurant and David Piper gave the Cobra its first taste of glory in Europe Raced in period by former Shelby American Team driver Bob Bondurant, this 1965 Shelby Cobra…