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To-night he was particularly uplifted because he was driving his first car. And it was none of your old-fashioned "gasoline buggies," with the engine under the seat. The engine bulked…

Opel Commodore Last September General Motors Ltd. reintroduced the famous Commodore name into their Opel range on a 2.5-litre six-cylinder four door saloon which is intended to slip in between…

The Chamonix 24-Hour Ice Race (actually composed of 15 separate races) on February 4-5 gave last year's runner-up Francois Chauche his taste of victory after he and team-mate Jean-Pierre Malchet…

Shadow Play Some twenty years ago a group of enthusiasts in Cyprus, some of them Cypriot and some members of the British military (BAMA and RAFMSA) got together and convinced…

MEMORIES To those whose memories of motoring go back to the days immediately following the War, it should not be difficult to recall the peculiar glamour which attached to that…

Down from the hills Nobody who has attended Classic Trials in the past couple of seasons can have failed to notice the growing number of one particular type of purposeful…

SANCTIONS AND GRAND PRIX RACING The Italo-Abyssinian conflict—or should we say the difference of opinion between Italy and the League, as such—bids fair to jeopardise, among other things, the future…

No.1128 In the January issue of Motor Sport, in an article about the 1939 British Empire Trophy race held at Donington Park, I mentioned an 1100 c.c. Maserati that was…

"The Steering Wheel" Racing folk have long felt the need for a social club in the West End, like the old Gilson's. The B.R.D.C., in conjunction with the J.C.C., has…

A spate of big accidents marred the first Pikes Peak hillclimb to take place on a full-asphalt course this summer. Jeremy Foley and co-driver Yuri Kouznetsov survived a terrifying plunge…

Sir, I have no experience of the Morgan Plus Four, but to say that the 1938 models suffered with the same defects is absolutely untrue in my own experience. I…

The Publicity Boys and the Sensational Press let themselves go, as usual over Moss' accident while he was carrying out chassis tests of the 300SLR Mercedes-Benz in readiness for the…