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Sir, As a reader of MOTOR SPORT and a spectator of motor racing I really must protest in the biggest possible way at the charges being made by the Brands…

While in Wolverhampton we called at that hive of activity, the Kieft factory, to learn from Cyril Kieft his plans for this season. The 500-c.c. sports cars, of which three…

Prospects for 1990 BY THE time this issue of MOTOR SPORT appears, the Monte Carlo Rally, first round of the 1990 World Rally Championship, will be over, and an indication…

CONTENTS. PAGE 263 Great Rating Marques The Targa Florio ... .• • Sporting Machines on Test ... Recent Events in Pictures Motor Boating News ... ... Impressions of an Unconventional…

Reg Parnell was not strictly a works driver but raced Tony Vandervell's Ferrari 375 'Thinwall Special' to fourth place in the 1951 French Grand Prix. Roy Salvadori made a one-off…

The Americans wanted open roadsters for their sports-car series, but with Group 7 deleted, Europe needed a Group 4 sports coupe. Jackie Epstein wanted a replacement for his ageing Ferrari…

Grand Prix racing's new-style feeder formula is well populated, but Simon Arron witnessed a baptism that wasn't wholly smooth Formula 3000 makes its big step into the future, into a…

Club News WE HEAR John Whitehead now Itas the ex John Whitehead now Itas the exBriggs shortened 'Lancia Lambda•and has reduced further its weight and fitted a smart new body.…

Sir, I read with great apprehension the latest activity of the inventor, Mr. Ronald Perch. He, like a great many other people, is clearly not able to understand the cause…

-At the wheel of a Renault Fregate Amiral saloon Once a year it is my pleasure—unless I can think of a convincing excuse—to accompany my wife to Wolverhampton on the occasion of her Sunbeam STD Register week-end in this…

Having acquired a taste for "rorty racers" when testing Ken Rudd's 185-b.h.p. Austin Healey 3000, we quickly accepted the opportunity to try a Kieft-modified Morgan Plus-Four. The Kieft Sports Car Co.,…

Murray's urban concept edges closer to reality It seems that ex-Formula 1 designer Gordon Murray's dream of seeing his T25 and T27 city cars in production is at last on…