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THE VINTAGE S.C.C. MAPREADIN 3 CONTEST The Vintage Sports Car Club held a map-reading contest on Sunday, January 24th, starting front the Phcfnix, Hartley Whitney and ending up for tea…

Sir, I wonder if any of your readers can help me with information about the L'Elegante car. I had the good fortune to find one, which I have since restored.…

Technically Interesting and Unusual Cars Recalled Whilst delving into the files and records in connection with my forthcoming book "Racing Car Review" I not unnaturally came across many interesting things…

A disappointment an absence of two years from the UK market, the Lancia Montecarlo reappeared on our roads earlier this year in improved guise. Although sharing the same name, this…

On March 27, an excellent turn-out of 84 VSCC members took themselves and their cars to the hills rather than the dales of Derbyshire for this event, only Saxl's 1928…

Mazda continues to defuse the argument that Japanese cars necessarily look alike, discounting the 626. Consider the rest of the range: MX-3 eyecatching, if underpowered; MX-6 ditto; MX-5 there's nothing…

The good news for those who favour older cars has been that the £40 tax-rebate continues, and indeed has been extended to vehicles constructed (rather than first taxed) prior to…

[We have put the case for the Scuderia method of joint ownership and a number of such organizations have been described. In this article J. R. A. Green, now 2nd…

Still hungry for more wins "The real key to the whole thing," said Keke Rosberg thoughtfully, "is that I only won a single Grand Prix on my way to the…

The 1952 R.A.C. Trials Championship was contested over a sporting course at Gandalo Camp, Catterick, in Yorkshire, by kind permission of the War Department. The rocky ways were muddy rather than slimy…

The sport's governing body, FISA, and the top Grand Prix drivers crossed swords during the fortnight's run-up to the Brazilian Grand Prix, over the introduction of success-related fees for Fomula…

B.O.C. The Bugatti Owners' Club held a very pleasant dinner and film-show at the R.A.C. at the end of February. We were unable to attend, but how successful this function…