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A Section Devoted To Old Car Matters VSCC Lllandow Thruxton being unavailable, the VSCC went to Llandow circuit in S. Wales for its final race meeting of 1973. There was…

Untried, untested and unloved, Datsun's entry for the 1973 Tour of Britain was Tony Fall's nemesis. John Davenport remembers why With the Tour of Britain, shortly to be revived for…

Sir, We do not have to look far to see what is wrong with Formula One motor racing, do we? Money and the Mickey Mouse Circuits! In the latest report…

Worth the toil for Toleman Sir, I've just read Nigel Roebuck's article on Ayrton Senna (July issue) which unleashed a flood of memories. I worked for Brian Hart from 1973…

Obtaining Performance Figures for the Shorrock-supercharged Austin Healey Sprite Last month we had an opportunity of taking performance figures for the Shorrock-supercharged Austin Healey Sprite, for which the Donald Healey Motor Company,…

Trading places Last month we spoke of the massive budgets of professional teams, the comparatively meagre resources of private competitors and the extremely remote possibility that any moderately heeled amateur…

History today Silverstone is the most historic active race circuit in Britain. Donington Park is older, but it can’t boast 60 years of continuous history. Brands Hatch was founded two…

30/98s at Luton • A Ford Cortina GT Estate Car • Sunbeams at Sandhurst The third Vauxhall Motors' "At Home" to members of the 30/98 Register took place on September…

Which is more important, the driver or his machine? The fiercest debate in motor racing will reach fever pitch this season when traction control returns to F1. Is this the…

BMW see the new Phantom as a 'National Monument', presumably to Britain, and have spent £60 million on the Goodwood factory where the BMW-R-Rs will be built, which will be…

There has been some encouragement for our columnist of late, notwithstanding John Cleland's current form... I spent the bulk of last month chasing John Cleland's Vauxhall Cavalier. Since I won…

Surfblazer, in conjunction with Olympic Holidays, their Greek distributors, provided a small party of journalists with a three days' introduction to Springtime Greece. The main object was to demonstrate the…