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Volvo's new, turbocharged 850 may look like any other of the Swedish manufacturer's products, but its meek exterior conceals quite a kick . . . "Who's got that tank in…

A TALE OF TWO PANHARDS I HAD not been on Safari since 1966, when I stalked a magnificent specimen of low-chassis Daimler Double-Six 50 in distant Somerset. But my interest…

MERCEDES-BENZ "GRAND SLAM" AT SAN SEBASTIAN Even though they may have suffered defeat on one or two occasions, there is little doubt that the Mercedes-Benz racing cars are the finest…

AMERICAN BEAUTY FROM ITS PURPOSEFUL BEAK TO TITANIUM TAIL, THIS Fl EAGLE OOZES CLASS AND STYLE. PAUL FEARNLEY TALKS TO THE MEN WHO CREATED IT Len Terry (designer): I was…

It is remarkable that around 1919 the respective merits of air and water-cooling were a subject for vigorous debate, due to the introduction of the air-cooled flat-twin Rover and A.B.C. cars,…

Radiator Decanters A novel idea from Ken Rudd of Ruddspeed Ltd., Ford Aerodrome, Sussex, is a decanter in the shape of classic car radiators. Those available at present are the…

Sir, The 12/16 Britannia first appeared at the Olympia Show in 1906. It was there again in 1907, and a 18/24-h.p. car was added to the range. A 6-cylinder model…

Silverstone 1973 Jody Scheckter recalls the race infamous for providing F1's biggest-ever multi-car pile-up 10: Purists recoil at the notion of getting excited about accidents in motor racing, but the…

PAG Editorial ... 159-160 B.M.C.R.C. Championship Races 161-162 Historical Motor Cycles • . . . . 162 A Pioneer Motoring Sportsman 164-167 Sporting Events of the Month 168-17o J .C.C.…

obituary It must have come as a great shock to many people in the vintage-car world, as it did to me, to hear that Harry Spence had died, aged 82.…

Just recently I seem to be bumping, metaphorically rather than literally, into a considerable number of Gilbern owners for one reason or another. They all seem to be extremely happy…

The key word in the title was ‘marathon’. What began life in the ’30s as the Liège-Rome-Liège Rally morphed into the Spa-Rome-Liège before the complexities of staging such an event…