As far as sporting enthusiasts are concerned the ordinary Mini has far less attraction than the Mini-Cooper and its latest S-type derivation. However, the standard Mini costs only £448 while…

Sir, I do seem to have stirred up a hornet's nest! In your last issue, John Surtees and Brian Joscelyne of AMOC wrote on the subject of these cars and…

Sir, The photograph which accompanied a letter from Jim James shows a Horch of the 1935/313 era, and, I suspect, from the look of the radiator and wheel centres, the…

SHOWTIME SOLILOQUY Last Motor Show-time, presumably in an unguarded moment, The Sunday Times Magazine published a profile of us in which it pointed out that the yellow parking lines stopped…

Kay Petre has gone to live in Canada. The widow of the late Mr. W. F. Milward, who built and raced Charren-Laycock cars and later became the designer of the Hampton,…

An earlier eligibility date for the Le Mans Legends race on the morning of the modern 24-hour event on June 16 will bring even wider grids. The era is now…

Following the success of the 2007 race, the Historic Sports Car Club will repeat the Autosport Three-Hour race at Snetterton in the summer of 2008. Recalling the classic events of…

SIR, It should be realised that the EU's dictum under which pre-'86 cars could be banned has nothing to do with safety or emissions. It is to do with car…

G-AFRN Sir, The request for information from J. T. Aldington with regard to the fate of Messerschmidt Bf108, G-AFRN, brings to light a strange tale. The Impressments Log, published some…

The M.M.E.C. ran slickly through a programme of 14 races at Silverstone in typical "M.M.E.C. weather." Dickie Steed's recently-assembled Cooper-Climax won the first race from the Loti of Lewis and…

B.A.R.C. The British Automobile Racing Club announce that the national car race meeting originally planned for Aintree (Liverpool) on September 4th has been replaced by an international meeting to be…

[The Indianapolis, Brussels and other continental reports were prepared as Stop Press matter for the July issue, but extreme pressure on space crowded them out. We publish them here, so…