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Adam Cooper We don't normally see Adam as our Hollywood reporter, but the new Senna movie is a special case. Motor racing hasn't proved a commercial success in cinemas in…

HRH Princess Chula asks us to say that all the motoring books by her late husband Prince Chula, and Prince Bira, which we referred to in the May issue, received…

by Richard Noble There were never any problems with ThrustSSC just opportunities. The first came with the completion of the Thrust2 project, and the achievement of the first British World…

Light Engineering, of 155, St. Andrew's Road, Bridport, Dorset, are producing a combined fingertip headlight flasher and horn lever to fit a wide variety of modern cars. The ultra light-weight lever…

MOTORING SPORTSMEN. Mr. John Donald Barclay. By THE Forrok. THE photograph reproduced at the head of this article will be recognised at once by all our readers as that of…

The inaugural VSCC Goodwood Sprint was hailed a success and produced a deserved win for James Baxter in his Frazer Nash single-seater. Run over a standing start lap of the race circuit,…

The value of the Historic Vehicle Clubs Committee was well illustrated last year, when the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society came up against regulations requiring old commercials to undergo the plating…

This year Le Mans was run to the new Formula of 3-litres for Group 6 cars and 5-litres for Group 4 and the new chicane before the pits was in…

A CZECHOSLOVAKIAN LIGHT CAR A GOOD PERFORMER ON ROUGH OADS Al4tHOUGH well known to British competitors as a consistent performer in the Alpine Trial, the Tatra is little known to…

Gas turbine racers were hot news for a few experimental years. Gordon Cruickshank explains Gas turbines in cars just don't work. If they did we'd all be running one today.…

The Vintage SCC has started its Jubilee Year well, in the racing sense, with what is thought to have been a record entry of 194 cars, although Edwardians were not…

Ferrari reversed the Daytona results at Sebring by winning the 12-hr. Endurance Race after a long battle with the JW Porsches. Both leading teams switched their fastest drivers to other…