When a Belfast entrepreneur proposed a new venue for a British street race, sportscar makers saw an opportunity to boost sales. Bill Boddy profiles the first ARDS tourist trophy If…

Barry Clarke of the VSCC had a very interesting article published recently, about why the shaft-drive two-cylinder and four-cylinder GNs, which succeeded the famous chain-drive models, were not a successful commercial…

John Cobb's three LSRs at Utah Recently I wrote of how British record breakers with ultra-fast cars took them to the Utah salt flats in America after Daytona beach had…

Some Data on the Sunbeam Rapier, Now Coming Off the Rootes' Assembly Lines Coventry  The new Sunbeam Rapier caused considerable interest at the last Earls Court Motor Show, and as…

"Floyd Clymer's 1967 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race Yearbook", 168 pp. 10¾ in. x 8¼ in. Soft covers. (Floyd Clymer Publications, 222 N. Virgil Avenue, Los Angeles, California. 83.) This is…

There is sometimes more inside or round the back of country garages than the eye normally sees. It was an observant reader who told me that if I was driving…

BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS "Motor Road Tests, 1966 Series." 130 p.., soft covers, 11 3/5 in. x 8 1/3 in. (Temple Press Books Ltd. George Newnes Ltd., Tower House, Southampton Street,…

The Isle of Man is world famous for its motorbike TT, but it has hosted several car events too, as Bill Boddy explains The RAC, as the governing body in…

MERCEDES-BENZ WINS CORONATION SAFARI By winning outright the tough, dust-infested East African Coronation Safari for the third year in succession Mercedes-Benz have proved convincingly the superiority of their splendidly engineered,…

By Griffith Williams. 80 pp., 11.1/2. in. 8 in. (Christopher Davies Ltd.„ Rawlings Road, Llandybie, Cams. No price quoted.) It is said that a little knowledge is dangerous. Whether this…

The Rover Sports Register is holding its third annual Belvoir Castle Rally on June 22nd, organised by its East Midland Section. This event is open to all Rover vehicles, from…

The clebrated columnist 'Taki' of The Spectator has been reminded by Adam Cooper's book Piers Courage Last of the Gentlemen Racers of the racing drivers he numbered among his friends…