That Spitfire Sir, I write to take you to task over your excellent article "A RoIls-Royce Occasion" in the July issue. Purely in the interests of assisting the maintenance of…

Long before high-profile sponsorship, mass media coverage and superstar status there were people who were stars nevertheless. One such is Marcus Chambers, under whose aegis as Competitions Manager BMC and…

Unmistakably a Ferrari, the mid-engined 308 GTB looks set for success. The body is glass-fibre, built by Scaglietti, while the Pininfarina style contains clever reminders of both the Boxer and…

Saab Owners Club's national weekend event is set for July 17-19 at Highmoor Farm Park, Skipton Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire. Details from Flat 2, Dorval House, Silverdale Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO1…

Pleasant surprise: George Daniels called by (above), to show me the famous 12-litre 1908 GP Itala, which he has bought from the Williamsons, who cared for it and used it…

With an entry of over 80 and only four non-starters this event, divided into two classes, required competitors to tackle eleven sections. A dozen drivers lost ten points before the…

No. 40: The Zephyr Your reference in a recent issue to car component manufacturers in Lowestoft mentions the Brooke car and also the Massa sparking plug, the latter being made…

Several captions were prepared for the V-E-V pages in last month's MOTOR SPORT and in the Editor's absence the wrong one was put under the top picture on page 641,…

Sir, One shudders in one's sports car at the thought (last month's Matters of Moment seeds of the Police State). Are we all to be fined for turning corners with…

Sir, Whilst I appreciated DSJ's otherwise excellent tribute to Enzo Ferrari (Motor Sport, October 1988), I must take issue over his references to the great man's dotage. I was privileged…

Lodge Plugs, Ltd., have recently conducted some valuable experiments at their laboratories at Rugby in connection with the temperatures of sparking-plug insulators and electrodes. Measurement of temperatures was made by…

Sir, I refer to the road test on the Alfetta 2000 in your July issue. The statement that the speedometer and tachometer rotate in opposite directions is Incorrect. In fact bosh instruments are…