A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters V.S.C.C. Northern Trial (Nov. 30th) First-Class Awards: B. M. Clarke (1925 Austin Seven) and M. J. Harris (1929 Austin Seven). Second-Class Awards: C. J.…

British Aviation—The Pioneer Years by Harald Penrose. 607 pp. 8-4/5 in. x 5-2/5 in. (Putnam & Co. Ltd., 9, Bow Street, London, WC2. 84s.) Yet another of Putnam's beautifully produced…

The last VSCC race meeting of the year and the final round of the 1979 Motor Sport Brooklands Memorial Trophy Contest will be held at the pleasant Cadwell Park circuit…

A lifelong motoring enthusiast, John ("Joby") Bowles, has died, aged 83. He had associations ranging from friendships with WO Bentley to Colin Chapman. It began when as a boy he…

The commercial side of motor racing King, the monthly which cannot decide whether to be a sex or a serious magazine, and which costs 7s. 6d., perhaps because only 7¾ of its…

We do not want to labour the seat-belts compulsion thing, but in view of the letter from Mr. Harold E. Parkin in the November 1982 issue and another last month…

I wonder whether the Fiat Register is aware of an interesting reference to "a small Fiat motor car" in "The Light of Common Day," by Diana Cooper (Rupert Bart-Davis, 1959)?…

Another brave new year has started to unfold and in many ways it can be said that, in the reported words of the late Lord Stockton, we have never had…

A high-performance disc-braked family saloon. nearly 90 mph and very good acceleration from 1,508 cc. There is visible evidence, by the large number of new Vauxhalls on the road, that the revised…

"Your Book of Racing& Sports Cars" by John Coleman. 88 pp. 6 1/4 in. 8 1/4 in. (Faber & Faber, 3, Queen Square, London, WC1N 5.AU. 2.35) This is a…

The Isle of Man man When the semi-independent island in the Irish Sea decided to hold road races, one man showed himself the master of the hazard-strewn street course Since…

The road-clinging Viva SL90 and the sumptuously-equipped Viscount Since I first tried it I have liked the Vauxhall Viva. It is a useful 1,159-c.c, car of conventional layout, almost of…