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A number of readers have expressed surprise that I do not spend the winter months chasing the motor racing to warmer climates, going to Watkins Glen as soon as the…

Approximately 70 cars attended and some 50 entered for the Concours d'Elegance and driving tests.

There is some excitement about the possibility of a rolling-start, as in the Indianapolis 500, being introduced for F1 racing, even perhaps at this year's British GP at Silverstone. Lest…

Sir, Your pictorial feature of Mike Hayward's Sights of the Sixties evoked strong memories of the most exciting period in British saloon car racing. I could almost smell the molten…

SNETTERTON'S FACILITIES Sir, the letter that you wrote to your own correspondence columns in the April issue, you query the presence of a public telephone at Snetterton; look closely at…

See how a heated piston head reveals the secret of SHELLM MULTIGRADE Now you can see why new Shell X-100 Multigrade is the oil for your car. You can see,…

A ‘You Were There’ special We present rare pictures from the collection of Princess Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein It was at the early age of nine that the Princess – then…

Sir, In the course. of literary browsing came upon this eighteenth-century gem, taken from Boswell's "Life of Johnson": "If (said Dr. Johnson) I had no duties, and no reference to…

A new auction house has the venue, the people and a fast-growing client base to ensure it quickly becomes established We're sure that many of you could list at least…

Indian entrepreneur Vijay Mallya has acquired a 50 per cent stake in the Spyker F1 team, and he intends to give the outfit a patriotically Indian flavour in future. The…

self-changing gear-boxes, there is a slight whine on second and first. The centrifugal clutch disconnects the gear-box from the engine when the latter is " ticking-over " and thus avoids…

Sir, In the November 1964 issue of Motor Sport I have come across a letter of Mr. J. T. Jones, who was wondering about what was happening to B.M.C. 1100…