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THE GRAND PRIX OF THE A.C.F. BUGATTI FIRST ALFA-ROMEO SECOND MASERATIS THIRD AND FOURTH. 4011IS CHI RON and Achille Varzi, driving together on one of the new 2,300 c.c. Bugatti…

The article on pages 22-25 deals mainly with the career of the 200-h.p. Wolseley Viper at Brooklands but this car gained another success in the 1922 Southend Speed Trials, when…

Golf Monthly, in an article purporting to show that present-day cars are infinitely better than their pre-war predecessors, quotes acceleration up to the eighty mark in a Vauxhall Velox "in…

THE 8-LITRE BENTLEY Sir, Apropos of remarks under the heading " Ratio-Shifting " in the May issue of MOTOR SPORT may I correct a anis-statement with regard to the clutch…

Sir, How about a new appendix to your monthly Letter to Readers column, devoted to the three ugliest and the three prettiest GP Formula 1 cars of the modern era?…

Club News WE HEAR Apart from the Horstman and A.B.C. mentioned elsewhere in this issue, another early small car, but of rather different conception, exists in Amersham, in the form…

VSCC July Silverstone Races THE VINTAGE SCC has a way with the weather and for its second 1985 Silverstone races, the Mike Hawthorn Memorial Trophy Meeting, it chose a marvellous…

Harrogate, Yorkshire With a 1979 Porsche 911SC straight out of the box, former GT racer Phil Hindley swept to a commanding victory on Tour Britannia, Britain’s classic race and rally…

Sir, With spectators risking their own and the lives of competitors, by jumping out of the way at the last moment and standing in dangerous positions it is lucky that…

* The Historic Sports Car Club has secured a date on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit to cap its 2010 calendar. As well as headline events at the Brands Hatch…

Sir, I agree with all you say in "Matters of Moment" February 1973, especially the "sneaky" radar traps which are placed on quiet roads so the police have a chance…

VETERANEDWARDIANVINTAGE A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters V.S.C.C. WELSH RALLY AND TRIAL (October 7/8th) TRIAL: Premier Award : H. Moffatt (Itugatti) First Class Awards : Spence (Lea-Francis), Brown .(Alvis), Miss…