GORDON GRAND TOURER A new make of car joined the ranks of British cars last month. Called the Gordon GM. after its backer, it uses a Chevrolet Corvette engine in…

Engine : Four cylinders, 60 by 56 mm. (633 c.c.). Push-rod o.h. valves. 7.0-to-1 compression-ratio. 21.5 b.h.p. at 4.600 r.p.m. Gear ratios : First, 18.2 to 1; second, 10.05 to…

Sir, I enjoyed reading of the completion of the Kieft Formula One car (March 2003) and to learn that it had been rightfully united with the Coventry-Climax Godiva engine. Judging…

LOOKING BACK No. 2: The Exeter Trial of 1924 Now that long drives are impossihte for most of us, it. is amusing to glance bark to the '' Exeter '…

THE SINGER JUNIOR Sir, I really must take up the cudgels in defence of the Singer "Junior," which you damn with faint praise. Having run my 1931 saloon for five…

Sir, Your recent review of the Austin 1300 GT (February 1972) makes reference to the "leather-look" p.v.c. roof covering of these cars and, in passing, you state that the post-war…

For the first time in history all three Morgan SLRs raced together, in the GT and Sports Car Cup at Silverstone in May. Morgan enthusiasts Keith Ahlers, John Emberson and…

THE " COLONIAL " MODEL WATERMOTA FOLLOWING on valuable experience obtained on the various long-distance trips undertaken by R. C. Cole on an outboard dinghy using a Watermota, a new…

Very Scientific Some excitement apparently was occasioned at Donington on the occasion of the Nuffield Trophy Race, by the appearance of the " gas-meter " operated by Kesterton of S.U.…

Write to: Motor Sport, Somerset House, Somerset Road, Teddington, Middlesex. TW11 8RT. E-Mail (please include your address): [email protected] ERA reflections Sir, Whilst the recent article by Paul Feamley about ERA…

THE MOTOR CYCLISTS' V.C. How the Nisbet Award has been Won. THE late Mr. J. R. Nisbet, known popularly to thousands of old motor cyclists as "Jimmy," and founder of…

ANATOMY AND THE SPORTS CAR. A Plea for more Comfortable Driving Positions. THE pundits of the motor world are never tired of pointing out the progress which has been. made…