The Tourist Trophy of TT originated in 1905 on the Isle of Man as a race for touring cars to assimilate daily motoring conditions. It then had a chequered history…

Reynard, arguably the world’s top racing car constructor for the best part of two decades, has been relaunched for 2009 seven years after it went out of business. Company founder…

The Motor Cycling Club (MCC) held its 68th Exeter Trial on January 5-6 last; the event attracted a full house of 220 cars plus 100 motorbikes. The preferred four-wheeled transport…

June 17/18 Nelson Rowe was the toast of the Historic FF1600 pack during the HSCC’s annual visit to Croft when he inflicted two defeats on arch-rival Neil Fowler. In dry…

In 1919 Capt. Ross Smith, M.C., D.F.C., A.F.C., and his brother Lieut. Keith M. Smith as Navigator, made the first England to Australia flight, a journey of nearly 12,000 miles.…

Sir, I must protest about the exclusion of one of the greatest all-rounders of any age: Piero Taruffi. He raced on motorcycles from 1923 to '51, establishing 53 international motorcycle…

A Section devoted to old-car matters   Puzzle:  This old photograph (q.v.) recently unearthed, shows a three-letter registration-plate, EWE3, at a time when such plates are thought not to have been in use  -- …

The week-long Silver Fern Historic Rally in New Zealand will be run for the second time from October 16-23, 2008. The event will start in Christchurch and concentrate on gravel…

An American reader of 40 years writes with reference to a mention in The Studebaker Wheel, the maker's trade magazine, to the two President Eights that finished in the 1929…

The Truth, At Last, About That Renault Missing Link We publish hereunder a most interesting letter from the one person who really knows about those straight-eight Renaults intended for the…

McLaren from the Inside Photographs by Tyler Alexander As you can read in this issue, Tyler Alexander is one of the privileged few to have worked closely with Bruce McLaren.…

Sir, Whilst I agree that Stephen Goss has indeed raised an old chestnut, I think the topic worthy of pursuit if only to set the record straight. Having re-read the…