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USED SPORTS CARS FOR SALE. A.C. QPEED TRIALS! Special Sports A.C. N--.) Ashby's Spring Wheel. High compression head. Folding screen, etc., outside controls. 80 m.p.h. Distinctive appearance. (30 or nearest.…

THE NEW SMALL CROSSLEY A LIVELY AND INTERESTING ADDITION TO THE LIGHT CAR CLASS LIKE most pioneer firms in the automobile industry, Crossley Motors Ltd., have in the past taken…

INTERNATIONAL AERO EXHIBITION Aircraft Manufacturers are now busily engaged in preparing for the International Aero Exhibition to be held this year at Olympia from July 16th to 27th. It is…

Potentially the top sports-car teams of 1974, Matra-Simca and Alfa Romeo met for the first time in strenght at the Monza 1.000 Kms. and the result was decisively in favour…

Andrew Frankel usually doesn't need much encouragement to get behind the wheel of fast racing cars but the idea of driving Trevor Willis's 500bhp hillclimber up a frozen Shelsley Walsh…

An account of the fuel injection Peugeot 404 KF2 ALL the Peugeots I have driven have been good cars but it was not until Peugeot Distributors Ltd. asked me to…

Sir, I was pleasantly surprised by your February 'The One That Got Away' article. It referred to Bobby Unser's Penske PC7, the car that lost fourth gear and cost him…

BRITISH F3 JACKIE STEWART 7964 champion, below AYRTON SENNA 1983 champion MIKA HAKKINEN 7990 champion JAIME ALGUERSUARI 2008 champion

Considerable interest was aroused by the appearance at the VSCC Oulton Park and Silverstone Race Meetings of RJ Cooper's supercharged 1930 8-litre Bentley, the first blown version of this famous car. It…

Grand Prix Historique: Pau The annual historic event around the streets of Pau produced some fine racing from magnificent fields, none more so than in the European Sports Prototype Trophy…

THE OPEN S.S.1 SPORTS CAR. IN last month's issue of MOTOR SPORT there appeared a description of a road test of the S.S.1 16 li.p. coupe. We have recorded therein…

Sir, I have just returned from the Le Mans Classic and have two observations to make on items which blunted my enjoyment of this event. First and foremost was the…