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Monte Carlo Rally What went wrong with the Monte Carlo Rally this year ? Why was it that only 96 cars set out from the various starting points whereas two…

by "Baladeur" A contributor to one of our contemporaries has been deploring, in a recent article, the trend, or rather the stagnation, in the design of racing engines. For twenty…

There weren't just records being set for individual cars at Gooding's Monterey sale as the company managed to sell machinery worth £72.1 million in two days — the highest such…

CHIVALRY Sir, I should be most-grateful if you would publish this letter of appreciation of an outstanding example of courtesy which I experienced recently. It was a bitterly cold afternoon…

There are people who say they do not want progress, but they are only fooling themselves, for without progress no-one would have invented the wheel, Otto would not have designed…

GAMMON DOES THE HAT-TRICK at Peterborough M.C. Silverstone Meeting THE Peterborough M.C. ran off a very slick meeting at Silverstone on September 19th, their plan of starting races when they…

A large luxury saloon that can hold its own with sports cars Comfort, ease of control, a top speed of 123 m.p.h., and standing-start 1/4-mile acceleration in under 17 1/2…

"I believe. . ." Eddie Jordan is one of those Irishmen who has kissed the Blarney Stone, but the fact that he has managed to climb the greasy motor racing…

Morgan 4/4 Club A Photographic Rally was held on February 14th, starting from Lichfield. The competitors each had a set of photographs, of which the map references were required, and…

This Elite could have won Le Mans but became linked with Tragedy. Mike Lawrence examines the mystery, while Sir John Whitmore steps behind the wheel again. THE CAR In 1959…

Fredy Kumschick scored again Fredy Kumschick scored his second Thoroughbred Grand Prix win of the season, at Donington Park in May, his Williams FW07 finishing four seconds clear of the…

With especial emphasis on the "Porvic" separator When a motorist expounds on the mechanical excellence of his new vehicle he never mentions the battery, although he is quick to curse it…