Mountain excitement Sir, You may be interested to know that the daunting Grossglockner mountain climb can still be accessed and enjoyed today; situated in Austria, near the Italian border, the…

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Sir, I would like to draw your attention to the video The Silver Arrows from Zwickau by Audi, in which sequences are to be seen of the Von BrauchitschSeaman incident…

Sir, l am researching for a book about the Great Auclum speed hill climb near Reading which took place in 1939 and between 1947 and 1974. The aim of this…

Sending me on my way from Standard House bound for Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, to cover the South African Grand Prix a couple of months back our resident Tuning Topics…

THK B.R.D.C. 500-MILES RACE. THE British Racing Drivers Club are to be congratulated on the success of their first event. Not only was it the first really long distance purely…

A Quick and Easy Way to the South of France Many Motor Sport readers scorn trains but most of them presumably like motoring in France. There are still a great…

The superlative elegance of the Rolls Royce saloon is particularly noticeable in this photograph. Complete freedom from rolling and tailheavi ness when cornering at high speeds are among the many…

by SMTS. £313.73 (ready built); £128.13 (kit). Charisma does not come cheap, even when it has been scaled down to 1/43rd of its original size . . . It was…

VINTAGE VEERINGS 131 11( El Y. vintage happenings having eased up a bit in contrast to the almost weekly Festival parades of the vet eranti, we can afford to refer…

The Grand Prix D'Endurance. ENTRIES having definitely closed for the le Mans 24hour race, it is revealed that there will be 28 cars in the race, made up as follows…

DR! V/ NG THE .M.G.-A AGAIN—continued from page 828 page The test car bad centre-lock wire wheels. The braking, aided by Lockheed di-es on the front wheels, is impeccable and…