A Section Devoted To Old-Car Matters Looking back at VSCC Silverstone The second VSCC Silverstone Meeting was plagued by heavy rain showers, which was unfortunate, because there was a record…

There is interest in the cars of noble families, especially if they took to motoring from early times. I am grateful to Dr Neil Thorp, a VSCC member who runs…

The VSCC Edwardian race at the two-day Oulton Park Meeting last July aroused so much enthusiasm and favourable comment that I am encouraged to take another look at it. The…

A look back Because snowstorms of record severity, combined with iced-up roads, prevailed over Southern England before the 1982 "Exeter" Trial, the Motor Cycling Club wisely cancelled the event. Sad,…

A section devoted to old car matters The Motor Mountaineer Some people think sheer motoring bliss is extending a good car on a long ruler-straight road or German autobahn, or…

It was not only with Rolls-Royce cars that General Motors' Cadillac division were notably co-operative (July MOTOR SPORT). From the invaluable R-R EC Heritage Trust Archives I have now learned…

Rather different from the usual run of miniatures is the Danish Tekno die-cast model of a four-berth Sprite Musketeer caravan, to 1/48th scale, a sensible size which is apparently universal…

Black County Road Transport, by Jim Boulton. Alan Sutton Publications, Stroud, Glos, £7.99. Jim Boulton is Wolverhampton's transport historian, to the extent of a mural of him being unveiled recently…

The ordinary Ford Corsair was written-up, not very favourably, by "M. L. T." last month, but, not having driven this latest Ford model, I was eager to take the GT…

edited by Douglas Armstrong. 236 pp. 12 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in. (Patrick Stephens Ltd., Bar Hill,Cambridge, CB3 8EL. £16.50.) Among an increasing number of annuals that give detailed…

THE B.A.R.C. explained that its Festival of Motoring at Goodwood on July 14th was intended as a day of relaxation, so I arranged to drive down in a Ford Galaxie…

When I interviewed that celebrated builder of specials, Challenor Barson, while he was on a visit to his brother in this country, from S Africa, I had no idea that…