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"Floyd Clymer's 196o Indianapolis soo-Mile Race Yearbook. 136 pp,. 11 in. 8i in. (Floyd Clymer, 1268 S. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, 6, California. 2 dollars.) Here is another of Clymet's…

A 1906 Charron CGV has been found in Argentina, with a chain-drive chassis and Rothschild ten-seater touring body in its original paint and upholstery. Its 75hp engine, which is missing,…

VSCC at Enstone IF ANYONE doubts whether vintage car competitions are an all-the-yearround pastime, they should have been at bleak Enstone airfield for the VSCC Driving Tests (107 entries) on…

For quite a long time we heard rumours and stories that Daimler-Benz of Stuttgart were about to enter the "small car market" with an entirely new car. Mistakenly we assumed…

BOBBY RAHAL HIS GRAND PRIX DRIVING CAREER amounted to just two starts for Wolf in 1978, but Rahal went on to a successful lndycar career, both behind the wheel and…

Sir, I was interested in Mr. Day's letter about the 4.3-litre Alvis. A saloon model of this car was tested by The Autocar in 1939 and reached 60 m.p.h. in…

Sir, Mr. A. Smith (October 1963) appears to have grown so weary of Morris 1100 criticism, that he appears to have nodded off when quoting acceleration figures up to 70;…

Sir, Many of your readers must have Company cars. I have seen no protests from them yet in your excellent magazine at the Conservative Government's proposed swingeing increases in "Taxable…

116 pre-war cars mustered at "The Verzons" in February sunshine, after which at Chalky's Conundrum, Hickling and his passengers ate meat-pasties cooked on the massive exhaust system of his 1917…

The Editor looks back on the cars he drove during 1971 The time—how it flies!—has come to review briefly the motoring experiences of last year. I am not sure who…

Ian Appleyard Ian Appleyard BSc, arguably Britain's most successful international rally driver of the early post-war years, died in early June. An Olympic skier, he had an uncanny affinity for…

The Singer Story, by Kevin Atkinson. Veloce, £40.00. A history of the Singer Company has been one of the very few gaps left in the one-make book field. Fortunately for…